Hi everyone, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me with a problem which is starting to become irrating. Everytime I play a game [it only happens while playing games, not during any other operations] on the spare pc, after a time the computer has a critical stop, complains about memory dumping procedures and reboots. It doesn't matter whether it's a couple of years old or a new game. From what I can gather, this only started happening after my brother installed mods for Command and Conquer: Generals that he got from a friend without reading the readme file, but I didn't see the file, so I don't know what the warning was about. Apparently my brother thought it would only affect C&C: Generals and nothing else. Now all I can think of is getting deleting the page file on each hard drive. rebooting and creating new page files. I don't know if that will fix it or not, but it seems to be an issue with small memory dumps, I guess. Here's the system specs: CPU: 1.66 Ghz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ RAM: 1.5Gb DDR HDD: 40Gb sata OS: XP Pro [I can't remember if it has SP2 or not, it's not on the Internet, so I'm not sure if we bothered.] Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Heat, poor power supplies, bad system drivers are the first things to check off the list. As far as your memory dumps, you can turn them off (they don't have anything to do with deleting your pagefile, or recreating them). Right click My Computer, go to Properites. Click on the Advanced tab, and then the Settings button under Startup and Recovery. Choose "none" from the pull down menu. Now, for the mods, you may want to run them thru an antivirus scanner before installing them. Not everyone out there creates game mods for the sole purpose of you having a better gaming experience.
