Urgent Help

[Erdrick Holmes]

Everytime I run a program in fullscreen my PC crashes and reboots itself. Can somebody help me out here? It didn't do that earlier this morning when I was playing KoF 97 on my MAME but when I tried to play RO it crashed, same thing with my NES emulator because they went fullscreen.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I looked at the error report and it showed me this.

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini120204-08.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Joel\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER5F.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml

Erorr signature

BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 00000118 BCP3 : F5E8BCC8
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 0_0 Product : 256_1

Anyone come up with conclusions from that?

[Dr Unne]

Ah, a classic case of the old WER5F.tmp.dir00. Yes indeed, I see one of those twice a day at least. I believe the solution is a nifty little trick we in the computer world call "reinstalling Windows". You may also want to try randomly upgrading and/or downgrading your video card drivers and DirectX.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Is there a way to fix it other then reinstalling windows?

[Yamaneko]

You may also want to try randomly upgrading and/or downgrading your video card drivers and DirectX.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Is there a page where I can download Video card drivers?

[crono_logical]

www.mygraphic'scard'scompany'shomepage.com

[Shoeberto]

Broken link.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Hmm, I don't think it's my graphics card. It plays Diablo II and Halflife on Fullscreen just fine. How dp I find out what video card I have?

[Burtsplurt]

Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > Display adapters.

Possibly.

[Samuraid]

Start -> Run - > "dxdiag"

[Citizen Bleys]

Ah, a classic case of the old WER5F.tmp.dir00. Yes indeed, I see one of those twice a day at least.

w

Twice a day, eh? And what OS do you run again?

[Baloki]

w

Twice a day, eh? And what OS do you run again?

Probably a Linux-Windows Hybrid, that crazy Unne :p

[Erdrick Holmes]

I tried everything so far, this whole thing urks me because I can't play my beloved ePSXe or my King of Fighters games on my Neo Geo emulator. I can't play RO either but for some reason Diablo 2 or HalfLife it works fine. This didn't happen until today.

[Yamaneko]

Maybe it has something to do with your emulators, and OpenGL and D3D.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I'm thinking D3D is to blame. My emulators run fine on windowed, well my Neo Geo emulator is fullscreen whether you like it or not. When I use MAME to play Neo Geo games on fullscreen it won't crash. This is driving me crazy.

[Dr Unne]

Why not reinstall Windows and be done with it? It would've taken you one hour and about 10 mouse clicks. You would've been done for a good long time at this point, already happily playing your games. Troubleshooting Windows problems is futile. You're groping around in the dark for answers to a question you can't even define.

[RSL]

Yeah, I just got done reinstalling Windows myself. It's almost fun. Almost.

[Eö Telrúnya]

If all else fails, you're not re-installing Windows enough! :D