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#4361 Hoppah

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 04:02 PM

Bad news.

My computer is broken. Although I didn't lose any files (love external hdd drives :1046276057_GroupHug:) I can't work on the mod for a while. :(

While playing a game (Empire Total War), I suddenly got a purple glow. The game looked like it was running in 256 colours for a moment. After 3 seconds I got a blue screen with white letters and a reboot. Since then, my computer doesn't want to load Windows Vista in normal mode anymore and I got weird display distortions (blue blocks, green wavy lines, white/purple letters during boot up). When the computer is suposed to load Vista (that loading bar is visible for a while) it starts hanging in a black screen with a lot of white small vertical lines. Safe Mode seems to works fine, but I also get the distortions in that mode. I am currently trying to find out what is damaged. I already tried to reinstall Windows Vista what didn't help, so I think it's my videocard but I am not sure about that. :nixweiss:

At this moment it is unknown when I can continue on the mod again. I have other computers, but they are way too old to handle the map texture for the new map (8096x8096 pixels with multiple layers) in Photoshop CS2. :nein:

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 04:47 PM

Damn it!!!

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 05:14 PM

:argue: Thats to bad... :nein:

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 06:02 PM

That's too bad to hear. I wonder what would cause that..

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 08:17 PM

That does sound like your video card,had the same crap happen to me.Got a new one and that fixed it right up.
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Posted 11 June 2009 - 08:36 PM

Well...
Check is there any soot on videocard. Probably smth got burned up... :machkaputt:
IMO there is no way to repair it but if you have vaild warranty you should get new one ASAP.
Goodluck ;]

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 09:59 PM

is there a 1.9 coming out of LA MOD?

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 10:01 PM

There will be, when Hoppah gets his computer working again

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 10:02 PM

is there a 1.9 coming out of LA MOD?

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If Hoppah can fix his computer. :)

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 10:10 PM

If he can't fix his computer, I vote we start a fund to ship over a few of the best computer technicians to fix his computer for him... No matter where they live, though it would be great if they lived down the road from him :)

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 10:13 PM

though it would be great if they lived down the road from him :)


True it would be better, if we don't want to spend about 650$ for shipping... people. LOL.

Anyways, it's really sad.

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 10:46 PM

Check your fans, esp. the CPU fan and video card fan.

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 01:15 AM

That's sad to hear. Hope you can figure out what's wrong and get your computer running again, Hoppah.
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 02:27 AM

It wouldn't happen to be a Dell with an nvidia 7900/7950 in it would it?

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 02:18 PM

Something is probably damaged permanently, although I was able to access Vista in normal mode for like 5 minutes before my screen got all f****d up again yesterday. I already checked the fans. I have two, one on my CPU and on the GPU (the vid card). The CPU one is definately running, but I can't see the GPU fan because the videocard is upside down.

For the interested. This was is my computer:

1 x AMD Athlon 64 x2 4000+
1 x NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GT (512 mb ram)
2 x 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM
2 x 360 GB HDD's
1 x Dual Layer DVD-ReWriter
1 x Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Bought it in March 2008

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 04:33 PM

:cry: :1046274283_heul:

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 04:45 PM

Well it's a new sorta of new computer, I would call the warranty number, and see what they can do with it.

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:35 PM

Yeah dont most cards have a one year warranty? Id call the card maker ASAP.

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:37 PM

If he can't fix his computer, I vote we start a fund to ship over a few of the best computer technicians to fix his computer for him... No matter where they live, though it would be great if they lived down the road from him :)

nah, we fund getting him an Alienware :)

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Posted 13 June 2009 - 04:44 AM

Sounds like its definitely a video card problem. (Side note: The video card snaps into the motherboard so therefore there is always the possibility of a motherboard fault, or CPU fault for that matter since Windows fails to load.) Best bet would be to replace the video card. Even if the video card fan is not working, if I am correct these are typically attached directly to the card, and replacing these would require a full card replacement. If you happen to have spare video cards, or know some1 that has some try replacing yours with these, even if they arent proper specs required for this game or modding, just to narrow the problem down.

Hope you figure it out and get it fixed. :onceldoc:
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