Computer Restarts After Loading game

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by zblazeLOC, Feb 24, 2009.

  1. zblazeLOC

    zblazeLOC Guest

    I really need help. I decided to get out fable and play it but when the game first loads and i skip past the story part my computer restarts. I turned off computer restart and got the 0x0000008e error. I tried updating my graphics but i have a ati radeon 2400 hd agp card and i can only get certain driver updates for the agp. Ive ran stability tests on my cpu and graphics card and it all went good. i have a brand new 600 watt power supply so power isnt a problem. This has happened before and i managed to some how fix it but i cant figure out how i did it after i formated my hdd and thought maybe someone else would know.
     
  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    microsoft says error points to ram problem. if have more the 1 stick of ram then remove 1 at a time & try the game.
     
  3. sammorris

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    WHich drivrs have you tried?
     
  4. zblazeLOC

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    well i have good news and bad news. I uninstalled the drivers from ati and installed the ones from omega and the game works fine. But another thing is that now i have to restart my computer every other time i turn it on because dxdiag says total approx memory N/A and when i restart the computer it says 256, it even does it while im playing fable and the screen goes black but it still has sound, if i minimize the game and run dxdiag it says i have no memory on my grafics card. Ive tried reinstalling the drivers but it still happens
     
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  5. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Very strange error, what's the AGP aperture size set to in the BIOS?
     
  6. zblazeLOC

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    i set it to 16mb awhile back before i used omega drivers when i was messing around with the ati drivers trying to get something to work, i have gotten further with the omega drivers though. Do think that setting it that low is the problem?
     
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    By setting it to 16MB you're effectively telling your system you have a 16MB card. Raise it to whatever your card has, presumably 256.
     
  8. zblazeLOC

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    ahh thank you, i changed it and it worked! Much appreciated
     
  9. sammorris

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    No problem, I'm glad as that was a bit of a stab in the dark...
     

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