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Myst seriesRealMyst crashed my hardrive, or did it???(4 posts)(4 posts)
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Posted March 11, 2011
Ok, so I have a newly installed Pentium 4, XP box, Service Pack 2 with a Geforce 5700LE Video Card. This is my spare PC so it has almost no other software on it.

Started playing RealMyst and suddenly the game froze on me. The PC wouldn't respond so I used Ctrl Alt Del. Then I got the blue screen telling me there was a critical error (the one with the Memory Dump message at the bottom. So I rebooted and tried RealMyst again and when I tried to save the progress bar started and then my PC froze. Again I rebooted and then I got this message.

reboot and select proper boot device......

I then went into the bios and booted from my DVD drive and tried to repair Windows from the setup and was told that it couldn't detect a physical hardrive. Thinking the hardrive was bust, I opened up unplugged it, but this time plugged it into another SATA port on my motherboard and thankfully Windows booted.

Now I am not a PC hardware buff, but it seems that the game did this to my PC. Has anybody else had the same problem?
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Posted March 11, 2011
I'm sorry you're experiencing problems with your PC, but a game wouldn't cause that to happen to a PC. Just like with other any game there's always a potencial for crashes and glitches and that kind of thing, but nothing like you describe.

BSOD's usually relate to a hardware component 'complaining' about something, so maybe look into updates for your motherboard, soundcard, videocard, etc. Also look into updates for XP itself and for its components like DirectX and Framework related stuff.

I have realMyst, gog version, installed on a Windows7 64 bit machine and on a XP 32 bit machine at this time and i've played the game from start to finish quite a few times without any problem whatsoever. Before the game was released on gog i played the CD version many times, on multiple XP machines, also without any problems.
Posted March 13, 2011
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Namur: I'm sorry you're experiencing problems with your PC, but a game wouldn't cause that to happen to a PC. Just like with other any game there's always a potencial for crashes and glitches and that kind of thing, but nothing like you describe.

BSOD's usually relate to a hardware component 'complaining' about something, so maybe look into updates for your motherboard, soundcard, videocard, etc. Also look into updates for XP itself and for its components like DirectX and Framework related stuff.

I have realMyst, gog version, installed on a Windows7 64 bit machine and on a XP 32 bit machine at this time and i've played the game from start to finish quite a few times without any problem whatsoever. Before the game was released on gog i played the CD version many times, on multiple XP machines, also without any problems.
Thanks, I will look into it. What I still find strange though is that the PC has been working 100% and this only happened when I tried to save with RealMyst. It never did it with any other software? Perhaps the SATA port was on its way out and Ctrl Atl Del, just happened to be the straw that broke the camels back. I will investigate.
Posted March 13, 2011
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jpinsa: Thanks, I will look into it. What I still find strange though is that the PC has been working 100% and this only happened when I tried to save with RealMyst. It never did it with any other software? Perhaps the SATA port was on its way out and Ctrl Atl Del, just happened to be the straw that broke the camels back. I will investigate.
Good luck, if you manage to find out what happened let us know.
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