A very simple question, I think

[AsteralTraveler]

What are "Critical Stops"? I looked high and low in the MS Knowledge Base, but all I found were FAQ's concerning some particular events that cause them. Google didn't help much either. I need to know why I hear the sound I assigned to it when I'm running the Half-Life demo, and at other times. Are they something I should worry about, is it an event that gets logged, those kinds of things. I'm running Win2K on a P4 system, with Norton AntiVirus and Internet Secuity, as well as other TSR's running in the background, if that matters. Thanks.


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[vass0922]

critical stops can be caused by a myriad of things. Just means there was AN error.. to fix the error you have to find out why it crashed.
check eventvwr (although worthless in general every great once in awhile it shows something ) start --> run and type 'eventvwr' look at the system log and application log around the time the critical error happened.

Make sure to check for any message boxes that come up when they do occur.
Generally when gaming its a safe bet to kill antivirus (although thinking while running half life that may not be suggestable with all the exploits available in the game)
but check the TSR's to see what you are comfortable with killing during gaming.

[AsteralTraveler]

Thanks vass. I keep the Event Viewer icon on my desktop, so the next time I hear one, I'll check. I do get this error quite often showing up in the log: "RSM could not load media in drive Drive 0 of library LITE-ON COMBO LTC-48161H." I'll look into that further sometime.