Computer Threatening problem linked to MTA

[Raziaar]

Okay. I know this is what has caused it for a fact now. I installed Multi Theft Auto before, on an 80 gig hard drive I formatted that has nothing but MTA on it.

It ran fine when I played, but when I restarted my computer, that's where the problem happened. My computer never booted to windows. Or rather, it booted to windows, but it didn't let me see my monitor display. How did I narrow this down to MTA? Whenever I pulled out the hard drive in question that has MTA, the computer boots up normally(I have a quick release drive bay).

Now... I managed to get into safe mode, and uninstalled MTA. And voila, next time on reboot, the computer started up. I didn't install it again for a day or two. I figured maybe it was a fluke. I reinstalled it again, played some today, and once I rebooted the computer, I had the SAME issue. No ability to access the computer. However, now this time I can't even log into safe mode with the drive in, so I cannot delete the damn MTA!

Anybody have any clue how I can resolve this, or what exactly in MTA could be causing it? The drive works perfectly fine. No disk errors, nothing... the only problem arises exactly when MTA is installed.

I just hope nobody has this problem and had it installed on their MAIN hard drive.

EDIT: I have further narrowed down the problem. It seems it was a huge cooincidence. You see, I have Daemon Tools on my computer... and the automount was doing something funky with it. Something interfering with the sptd.sys file. It was on a completely unrelated game than San Andreas. Baldur's Gate 1 as a matter of fact.

So Mods. you can delete this topic please.

[Blokker_1999]

This could never have been an MTAproblem since MTA loads nothing in your system folder or on startup of the computer.

The only two explenations could have been:

- hardware failure

- driver failure

and it seems the last one was what happend.

When you have a problem like this, don't assume it is the software you installed that causes it. It would even be unlogical that MTA was the cause. If you check all the software that gets loaded when Windows starts you would had noticed that there was nothing from the MTA folder that got loaded.

[Jani]

I have further narrowed down the problem. It seems it was a huge cooincidence. You see, I have Daemon Tools on my computer... and the automount was doing something funky with it. Something interfering with the sptd.sys file. It was on a completely unrelated game than San Andreas. Baldur's Gate 1 as a matter of fact.

So Mods. you can delete this topic please.