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Weird, weird weird!!!
For the last 6 months or so, I've been experiencing in-game crashes (dumped back to Windows) in CS which had no apparent cause (at least nothing repeatable or constant)
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My initial thoughts where that some lamer was getting flustered at my triple headshot stint and decided he'd had enough of an a** canning for one night, deciding to nuke me using some "hush-hush" CS cheat I wasn't aware of. I'd tried the CS anti-crash cheat, flashing my BIOS, installing the latest AGP drivers, m/b drivers, even down-clocking my Savage2000 thinking it was a heat issue (even with the fan on it)...nuthin'
After charging into the lead during one game, (rare at that), in usual "wicked-round" style, CS decided to give up the ghost and boot me back to Windows. This I decided was the final straw..."Enough!!" I screamed.
A m8 had given me an "old" Gigabyte GA-5AA m/b which we'd had problems with before. And since I'd tried almost everything with my current setup, I decided to get rid of my pcchips m/b and stick in the GA-5AA and hope I could come to some sort of resolution. I'd tried before, but gave up after losing my hair from BSOD's and intermittent stability
(which I seem to think was linked to the problem disclosed later in this post..gotcha hooked now eh??)
To my amazing surprise, I installed the GA-5AA and I didn't get a single glitch..not a hicup...I thought I'd "stress" the system a bit by playing CS for a few hours, expecting CS to boot me at some random interval, leaving me in total dispair as to what was causing my problem...
nothing...smooth performance and not a single crash....woohoo!
since the GA-5AA uses on board USB, and I couldn't find the "expansion card" to plug into the motherboard, I was using my old Logitech Serial mouse. I eventually found the USB thing and plugged it in, allowing me to use my MS Intellimouse Optical..
All hell broke loose..CS went back to it's former stability. On a whim of curiosity, I unplug the Intellimouse and plug the Serial mouse back in : instant, constant stability. I've been playing CS for a week now, and I haven't had a single instance of crashing. With the previous setup, I was getting at least 3 a game. I know it's not a freak stability issue, I've swapped mice (mouses?) round, and I get near instantly observable crashing/stability...
So, the moral of my story is, if you're getting random crashes like the one I've described above, then maybe, juuust *maybe*, it's the mouse (or some other easily replaceable hardware component...)
(I haven't tried the old m/b with the serial mouse...but something tells me it might be ok...ah well..AGP 2x is reason enough to stick with the GA-5AA)
confucious say : "If CS crash, Intellimouse USB is probably the cause"
For the last 6 months or so, I've been experiencing in-game crashes (dumped back to Windows) in CS which had no apparent cause (at least nothing repeatable or constant)
. My initial thoughts where that some lamer was getting flustered at my triple headshot stint and decided he'd had enough of an a** canning for one night, deciding to nuke me using some "hush-hush" CS cheat I wasn't aware of. I'd tried the CS anti-crash cheat, flashing my BIOS, installing the latest AGP drivers, m/b drivers, even down-clocking my Savage2000 thinking it was a heat issue (even with the fan on it)...nuthin'
After charging into the lead during one game, (rare at that
), in usual "wicked-round" style, CS decided to give up the ghost and boot me back to Windows. This I decided was the final straw..."Enough!!" I screamed.A m8 had given me an "old" Gigabyte GA-5AA m/b which we'd had problems with before. And since I'd tried almost everything with my current setup, I decided to get rid of my pcchips m/b and stick in the GA-5AA and hope I could come to some sort of resolution. I'd tried before, but gave up after losing my hair from BSOD's and intermittent stability
(which I seem to think was linked to the problem disclosed later in this post..gotcha hooked now eh??
)To my amazing surprise, I installed the GA-5AA and I didn't get a single glitch..not a hicup...I thought I'd "stress" the system a bit by playing CS for a few hours, expecting CS to boot me at some random interval, leaving me in total dispair as to what was causing my problem...
nothing...smooth performance and not a single crash....woohoo!
since the GA-5AA uses on board USB, and I couldn't find the "expansion card" to plug into the motherboard, I was using my old Logitech Serial mouse. I eventually found the USB thing and plugged it in, allowing me to use my MS Intellimouse Optical..
All hell broke loose..CS went back to it's former stability. On a whim of curiosity, I unplug the Intellimouse and plug the Serial mouse back in : instant, constant stability. I've been playing CS for a week now, and I haven't had a single instance of crashing. With the previous setup, I was getting at least 3 a game. I know it's not a freak stability issue, I've swapped mice (mouses?) round, and I get near instantly observable crashing/stability...
So, the moral of my story is, if you're getting random crashes like the one I've described above, then maybe, juuust *maybe*, it's the mouse (or some other easily replaceable hardware component...)
(I haven't tried the old m/b with the serial mouse...but something tells me it might be ok...ah well..AGP 2x is reason enough to stick with the GA-5AA
)confucious say : "If CS crash, Intellimouse USB is probably the cause"