Hi All

Just wondering if anyone can help me please.

At the moment i play a game called Dark and Light. When a game use to crash that i was playing it would just take me back to the desktop or i could end the program with CNTR/ALT/DEL.

However recentley when a game crashes on me i get this blue warning screen advising me windos has shut down due to this crash.

The only thing that i have done differentley recentley is buy a new 19 tft monitor and installed the drivers for it.

Could this have done something to my pc so that everytime something goes wrong my pc shuts itself down as a precaution?

Any help would be appreciated please.

Regards

Clint Eastwood

Hi Clint Eastwood (the real one? ;-)) and welcome to PCHF,
Hmmmz make sure you've done these things:
-have the latest directX 9.0c i believe
-windows is uptodate
-you have the latest gamepatch installed
-you have the latest drivers for your videocard
-you have configured your videocard for you tft and isntalled the tft

To disable the autorebooting on system errors goto start->control panel->system->advanced->settings (the 'lowest' one at startup and recovery)->uncheck 'reboot the computer (...)'->ok->reboot
good luck, Bram

Thanks for the reply.

I had that already unchecked where it says "Automatically Restart" under the systems failure area.

A while back i used a tweaking guide on the net which mentioned unticking that.

I do have the latest drivers for graphics card etc. I can only think that when i installed the various drivers for the monitor that has affected something?

The blue screen is like a dos type screen etc and i have not seen this type of thing in ages to tell you the truth.

I klnow the kind of screen you're talking about and it's most likely a fatal error that's been caused by 'something', most likely wrong drivers or some kind of misconfiguration. A error of that kind cannot be bypassed in any way, windows needs to reboot when it encounters such a serious error. Can you look in the windows system/errorlog and post what's mentioned over there? (control panel->administrative tools->logs->system)

Ok it seems i have ver 5.12 ati drivers which i downloaded 10 days ago but now there is 5.13.

I will give that a shot although i doubt the drivers have anything to do with error reporting etc but who knows

Well it seems the error has gone from mild to fatal so give it a try. When it doesn't work I'd like to see the system log (only errors offcourse)

Well under administrative tools in windows xp home there is no log option.

I assume you mean the event viewer and under that i think it keeps a record of crashes etc.

Hmm no paste button Ok uploaded the event log. Cheers

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