Hardware failure after hard crash

[doop-de-doo]

I'd been getting the age old "Graphics card driver has stopped responding and has been restored." windows error message. So far it had only been a pain, but rarely a problem. Played games with no issue.

Yesterday I started up PR, alt-tabbed to check the change-log, and switched back. I was not in-game, but in the multiplayer lobby. I selected a server to play on and the game momentarily hung, as is normal, while updating server status. It never came back. I couldn't bring up task manager, alt-f4, or alt-tab, so I went for a hard restart. It hasn't booted up since then.

Last time something like this happened, I ended buying a new cpu and motherboard.

I believe this happens because BF2 is a legacy game and probably isn't optimized to run on the latest OSes. At any rate, be warned that under similar circumstances, your pc might break as mine has.

TC all

[Cossack]

That issue might be related to gpu, just remove it and if you have intel cpu, connect display cables to the mobo. Then you can be 100% sure that gpu have died.

And I am running pr on windows 8 for like 2 years and no issues. Its the hardware, that failed you, not the game.

[doop-de-doo]

I've played PR for years as well. This issue has been persistant no matter what I replace. I've had 3 mobo's, new GPU, CPU, memory and PSU. Never had this problem until Win 8. I'll probably build a new rig.

[Cossack]

I've played PR for years as well. This issue has been persistant no matter what I replace. I've had 3 mobo's, new GPU, CPU, memory and PSU. Never had this problem until Win 8. I'll probably build a new rig.

Hmm... Maybe its super rare build configuration? It feels like, something was not working or configured properly.

Like, I got my new rig, went straight Win 8.1, everything runs smooth, with no problem at all.

[doop-de-doo]

Turned out to be memory. [Solved]

[PLODDITHANLEY]

I always put a speaker on the mobo, those beep codes help.

[doop-de-doo]

Yeah. I managed to pick one up