There are a certain number of games in my Steam that when they load, before I get to the menu screen, it results in a full system lock ups. No Ctrl+Alt+Delete is available. Nothing. I end up restarting my system. Portal 2, Borderlands, Dark Messiah, recent demos, and a few more others don't load at all and cause full lock ups. I am running Steam off of an External but I don't think that's the cause since many other games work. I've defragmented and validated the selected few with no results. All video drivers are up to date.
Any suggestions?
That's caused by a failing harddrive or bad memory. Do a chkdsk and memtest86.
It is probably my harddrive. It is an external and a chkdsk is taking way too long.
[QUOTE=Altec100;31653894]It is probably my harddrive. It is an external and a chkdsk is taking way too long.[/QUOTE]
if its a huge drive and done via usb it will take forever
if the hard drive is powered by usb theres another problem.
[editline]10th August 2011[/editline]
Plus the drive might not be active when you are launching games. So windows has to spin it back up and wake it up.
I formatted the external and will be using it strictly as storage now. An internal is the best way to go. Thanks guys.
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Even after I reinstalled Steam and downloaded the selected few and ran them on my internal, It did the same thing. I'll check my memory.
After a few passes on memtest, no errors. I really don't know what it could be.
BIOSTAR A880G+ AM3
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
GTS 250
G. SKILL 2 x 4Gb DDR3
Antec EarthWatts EA750
Keep things you access the most on the primary drive and everything else on others. Because the external drive is designed and programed to shut itself off after x many minutes of no read/write operations, windows has to wake it up. Steam must not like this and fucks everything over. That is the problem here and nothing else.
Right. Yet it still completely locks up on my C: drive. Nothing wrong according to a check disk.
Really, I haven't played Portal 2 yet and I'm eager as fuck to fix this. I'll look for fixes.
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If it helps in a any way, shape, or form, Steam always thinks I'm using a new computer after a hard reboot from a system lockup. Which results in me having to get a new code.
[editline]11th August 2011[/editline]
Memtests and Prime 95 showed no errors after several passes. This is certainly a software issue.
Check the smart codes on the hard drive
How do I do that?
[url]http://www.hdtune.com/[/url]
Everything seems to be running fine.
I'm still stuck on this. I'll start asking around the steam forums.
This is impossible. Drastic measures?
contact steam support
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