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Age of Conan killed my brand new computer...
Evilzim
Member Posts: 33
I installed the trial for Age of Conan yesterday. After playing for several hours the game crashed, nothing suprising I'd heard alot about the glitchiness of the game. I restarted my computer, played for a few more hours only to have the game crash again. Now when I boot my computer it says "Floppy Disk(s) Fail(40)" and then If I press continue (F1) it says "operating system missing". Did Age of Conan really just delete my operating system?
I'm no computer wiz but I'm sure the specs on my computer were good enough to run the game on high graphic settings, the game was running absolutely perfectly until it crashed. Since I only have a trial account I can't even post on the official Age of Conan forums. After a year of this game being out I find it rediculous that it still is having such serious technical problems. Any advise on how to fix my computer without reinstalling everything, if possible, would be appreciated.
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Playing: Age of Conan Trial (trying to at least)
Played: Runescape, WoW, FFXI, Fury
Tried: LotRO, EVE, CoV, PotCO
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Hmm..You heard of the glitchiness of the game ?
There is no glitchiness in AoC as far as I know, not any more problems than other MMO's ...
If your drives was corrupted and you installed AoC on those clusters it could be possiblibe for such things to happen..
Reinstall windows
It's not impossible that while crashing your BIOS boot-sequence was somehow reset..
Depending on your motherboard and all other stuff, press DEL when booting up. Go into whatever menu that controls the booting sequence.
Make sure the first one is not set to floppy (if you don't have one).. and that it doesn't halt on devices not found...
If i'm wrong i'm wrong... but better trying than not
I was refering to the slew of technical difficulties that had been reported at the games launch. I haven't been following the game for sometime, if it has improved significantly, I'm glad. My issue is the computer I was playing on was not owned by my parents, there are documents and files on their that they need... Is there any other possible way of getting the computer working that you know of...
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Playing: Age of Conan Trial (trying to at least)
Played: Runescape, WoW, FFXI, Fury
Tried: LotRO, EVE, CoV, PotCO
Thanks! I'll try that now!
Edit: Didn't work, the first one was set to diskette drive and the second to hard drive. I switched them and nothing happened.
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Playing: Age of Conan Trial (trying to at least)
Played: Runescape, WoW, FFXI, Fury
Tried: LotRO, EVE, CoV, PotCO
If you have Windows XP you can do a reinstall on top of the old one without losing your old settings or information, assuming that just something small on the hard drive is corrupted, not all the information. I don't know if it works on Vista tough.
But games like AoC don't kill the computers. Games may cause crashes, but if your computer stops working while playing a game it's most likely a hardware failure or something with the operating system or drivers, not anything the game would have done.
EDIT: You might also want to try running some program wich would rewrite the boot record, that being corrupted might be one possible problem. I just don't know any other way to do it with Windows machines than reinstallation. /EDIT
It is vista, unfortunately, so I'm not sure if this will work, although I guess I'm willing to try... Also any idea on what program would rewrite the boot record? I'm not an expert with computers...
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Playing: Age of Conan Trial (trying to at least)
Played: Runescape, WoW, FFXI, Fury
Tried: LotRO, EVE, CoV, PotCO
The thing that happened to your computer is 99% certain that can't be blamed on AoC. However the problem you mention I have seend before. It indicates that there is a problem with some files for windows and that the system cannot find the files required to load it.
OS missing usually means you have to reinstall the OS, however how old is your hard drive? or the computer itself? There can be many reasons for OS gone missing such as bad clusters on hard drive or that the hard drive simply is about to die.
Playing: Battlefield - Bad company (Xbox360) Arma2, DFO (PC)
On my radar: TSW, MO
MMO's played: SWG (pre cu/cu), WoW, AoC, WAR, DFO, Planetside
MMO's that I have tested: Lotro, L2, Aion, Ryzom
The computer is at most two months old... Do you know if its possible to reinstall the OS without erasing everything on the computer in Vista?
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Playing: Age of Conan Trial (trying to at least)
Played: Runescape, WoW, FFXI, Fury
Tried: LotRO, EVE, CoV, PotCO
The computer is at most two months old... Do you know if its possible to reinstall the OS without erasing everything on the computer in Vista?
You can try to run the repair utility that windows provides, when isnatlling you can either choose full install or try to repair the previous installation. I have never really used the repair thingy as I keep my important stuff on a different disk then C:. Too many episodes like this when I was playing around and learning how the computer works :P
If this doesn't work you can take the hard drive out or get a friend to do it and put it in his computer, as long as you don't need the files under your user these should be easy to get out. that is of course as long as the disk isn't damaged .
This should not happen on a 2 month computer, but I had a simialr case on a friends computer some months back, they have sent the computer to repair, but not heard anything yet how that goes. I took the backup using my computer and installing their Harddrive in it. That was Vista too, and they had blue screens appearing for some month or so before the computer finally crashed. Have you had any blue screens?
Playing: Battlefield - Bad company (Xbox360) Arma2, DFO (PC)
On my radar: TSW, MO
MMO's played: SWG (pre cu/cu), WoW, AoC, WAR, DFO, Planetside
MMO's that I have tested: Lotro, L2, Aion, Ryzom
The computer is at most two months old... Do you know if its possible to reinstall the OS without erasing everything on the computer in Vista?
You can try to run the repair utility that windows provides, when isnatlling you can either choose full install or try to repair the previous installation. I have never really used the repair thingy as I keep my important stuff on a different disk then C:. Too many episodes like this when I was playing around and learning how the computer works :P
If this doesn't work you can take the hard drive out or get a friend to do it and put it in his computer, as long as you don't need the files under your user these should be easy to get out. that is of course as long as the disk isn't damaged .
This should not happen on a 2 month computer, but I had a simialr case on a friends computer some months back, they have sent the computer to repair, but not heard anything yet how that goes. I took the backup using my computer and installing their Harddrive in it. That was Vista too, and they had blue screens appearing for some month or so before the computer finally crashed. Have you had any blue screens?
I'll try running the repair. The computer was running perfectly, I hadn't noticed a single glitch until the incident with Age of Conan. No blue screens what-so-ever.
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Playing: Age of Conan Trial (trying to at least)
Played: Runescape, WoW, FFXI, Fury
Tried: LotRO, EVE, CoV, PotCO
I haven't had to do this in Vista so I don't know if it works, but you can open a DOS box (which you can still do in Vista btw) and type chkdsk /F/R and when you rebooted it would repair what is needed. I think it is /f/r if not just type chkdsk /? for the switch options then just retype the with the switches you want.
It sounds like what someone said your BIOS went wacko and needs to be reset or you're getting bad clusters on your hard drive and the drive is about to go.
Just my opinion/suggestion. I hope you get it up and running!
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-please try and post your computer config (parts)
-there are NO glitches what so ever in AOC as of now , at least nothing like what you are sdescribing... i never turn off my computer and the game is always running, no problems at all.
-that sounds to me like a bad hard drive (fried hard drive), even if you reinstall the OS again, you shouoldnt trust that HDD any more.
-please try and post your computer config (parts)
-there are NO glitches what so ever in AOC as of now , at least nothing like what you are sdescribing... i never turn off my computer and the game is always running, no problems at all.
-that sounds to me like a bad hard drive (fried hard drive), even if you reinstall the OS again, you shouoldnt trust that HDD any more.
I just recently played and gave a level 30 review called "Why I left AoC". I had a new mobo, but with old nVidia 6800 sli and had no problems, no bugs, and used 2 gigs of ram, and amd athalon fx2 cpu. Maybe it was a coincidence and your motherboard was going bad, or your power supply could have surged and burned out your mobo (that happened to me once... I could smell something burning too).
Could just be a coincidence, it could have broke down with any other game ... who knows?
/shrugs
Maybe repair windows, but you may have to do a complete reinstall.
Good Luck
Probably your PSU couldn't handle the load. AoC is a pretty demanding game so it'll push most components to near their max load, which really stresses the PSU if you have a low-wattage one. With a failing PSU your HDD could have corrupted data or even fried.
Sometimes a simple BIOS reset can work wonders... it has for me. Look at your motherboard instruction on how to reset your BIOS. Good luck.
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The most likely problem. I've had this happen on my current and previous PC both.
A failed boot is one thing. A boot that doesn't see an OS usually means it's not looking in the right place. Only 2 things that would cause this is a reset boot order or the Master Boot Record on your OS drive getting wiped by hardware failure or a virus.
It seems like a hardware problem. Most likely your hard drive that has some bad sectors. However AoC could have messed up your computer, cos I have a friend of mine that had similar problems after launching the game. Dont listen to all the fanbois in here, just stay away from AoC and play some game that actually works like most game should do.
The following is a great way using puppy linux to retrieve important files from your hard drive when you are unable to boot :
http://www.computer-juice.com/forums/f54/how-recover-files-windows-using-linux-live-cd-16100/
o HAI MR GENIUS , aoc, nor any other game can damage your computer, what damages your computer is probably overheating, is most likely thing
if he played vanguard, or eq2( which is supposed to have high demans.. not sure didnt try ) he would had exactly same thing
if he played crysis or any power hungry game , same would happen
if he had cpu/gpu test going on for few hours, he would had same thing
if game crash, windows wont reboot, if its vista, and it is, there is 0.001% chance that random program crash , actually crashes windows
if windows restarted, its probably was overheating, if he had long beep sound when computer froze, its likely overheating, or lack of power in cpu, i had plenty of both, when i got my new pc, first thing was did some overclocking, getting new coolers etc, started aoc as it was just before aoc launch , month later i had few reboots, crashes.. and i was like wtf, i check my tems.. and it was way too high, i opened case, and i saw my new fan loves to gather dust
so i cleaned it.. and it was silk smooth again
i had plenty of crashes, where either my ram or cpu was lacking, in power i gave to them after overclocking, i even busted my motherboard while experimenting with rams , those things happen
i had fried my motherboard on my old pc.. probably 5 years ago by now, cuz i never cleaned psu ( cleaning psu is important.. atleast vacum from behind, opening it all , and cleaning all the cables inside is even better ) and my pc was having bbq inside
i cant take op post seriously, cuz he claims to have new good gaming pc, and yet he still have floppy drive.. WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT THING ?
oh
there is one thing you could try as i have that problem my self.. well probably cuz i have 3 hdd, and all of them are different in size and makers.. so sometimes i have my hdds go nuts, and my pc wont boot, saying that booting hdd isnt present or whatever it says
so what you do , shut down pc, open case, unplug all of your hdds ( just sata cables, no need for power cables ) , start up pc, while they are unpluged, it will grant same error msg, shut down pc after you see the error.. plug all your hdd back, and it works..
butthat might be different problem you have
Whoops.
I had a new machine that similarly just stopped recognizing the hard drive. Turned out to be the hardrive itself. If you have a Seagate Barracuda, check this link. If not, sorry your fix isn't so simple.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931&NewLang=en
I had my comupter freeze while playing a Youtube clip. After restarting the BIOS complained that the CMOS failed it's checksum so it reset everything to the presets that I saved in configuration 1. After rebooting it complained that the BIOS failed it's checksum and that it would attempt to reflash itself from backup... It did this 3 times before it actually booted. Then the BIOS crashed several times while I tried to access it to see/fix what was going on.
Moral of the story? Never go to Youtube! And don't let the fanboys tell you otherwise!!!!!!11one!!1
Or... I had accidently saved a BIOS configuration in which I had doubled the memory's speed(oops)...
PS: Don't try to run 400Mhz DDR3 memory at 800Mhz.