So I download and install

[rockpile]

star wars jedi acadamy and wow now my computer restarts itself and amazing I cant type in my admin passwd besides that I cant do anything. The hard drive makes a loud grinding noise while starting and theres the constant beeping until i move the mouse.

Sounds like maybe a virus was in that download I don't know.

Windows xp geforce 3 etc what do you guys think I really dont want to format again is there any hope?

you downloaded it from the internet?

[rockpile]

yes

Well hopefully you learned from downloading games online

can you boot into safe mode?

do you have any anti virus installed?


if you can boot into safe mode, i suggest downloading http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php from another machine and install that


see what it can find

or you can put it into another machine (you might risk infecting the other machine) and scan with

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

see what it finds

[rockpile]

I am running norton systemworks 2003 and everything seemed fine at first. I went to play the game and i get the error cannot opengl drivers error so I went to find a fix and thats when the machine shut down. As far as downloading the demo I got the website here from another thread and they said the game was great and was really fun the only reason I even downloaded it, normally I don't. So i'll try what u suggest thanks for any help.

ok tried safe mode blue screen with white box thats it. Virus? or possible hardware failure? Any advice appreciated

ah its the demo, okay i thought it was the full verison


"I went to play the game and i get the error cannot opengl drivers error so I went to find a fix and thats when the machine shut down. "


what did you do to fix this? Do you have the latest video drivers?

what os you running?

[rockpile]

Yes I have the latest drivers windows xp as stated earlier and I did not even get a chance to try and fix it, I was doing a google search when the machine shut down. I also have directx9 I guess had looks pretty dim right now

what are the rest of your system specs? if you it shut down while working it could be two things

1. blue screen (winxp automatically restarts the computer)

2. your motherboard has heat protection on the cpu

[rockpile]

No sorry blue screen when i try safe mode. Boots normally I get to where you enter your admin password and I cannot type anything wont let me tried different keyboard same thing. amd xp1800plus 1 160 gig drive 1 100 gig drive both wd special editions 1 gig pc 2100 ram 450 watt power supply and an antec cpu fan I believe.