My computer

[Elder]

Okay, so I was playing G mod, and up until this point my comp was working completely fine. So, I was playing it, then I get this error: "internal drive Error OS Pool exceeded, and it told me to go to the link. I could not go directly to the link, so I tried updating my drivers. I go to ati and try and update them, and then it goes on and says (after I've downloaded it) WARNING: STOP NOW BEFORE YOUR COMPUTER'S DRIVERS ARE RUINED (because this was a different version for the drivers, apparently.) So, I stop it. And I restart my comp. All of a sudden, the resolution is massively large, no games work, I run diagnostics, and it says I have no drivers. I popped in the drivers & utilities disc, and try and install the drivers. I replace all files with the ones from teh disc, now there still is no drivers, and my computer is slow as shit. Please, help.

[Linvill]

Back up all games,

System Defrag. first

if no results Reboot.

Reboot.

Thats all i can think of first off. sounds like OS software is DONE!.

But other than that i dont know.

[Viktor]

Something similar happened to me and it ended up being a bad hard drive. If you have dual HDD's then swap them out, get into your BIOS and disable your Raid config (if you have one).

[Goodwin 1st MRB]

Never heard of a hardware or software error ever telling you to go to a link.

Ever.

The only time I can think that stuff has happened was when people clicked the link and ended up with viruses and shit - which ended up causing them to reformat.

[Dillon 1st MRB]

I have seen things like this. Did you have any other symptoms? Pop ups getting blocked? Lag spikes on every server in every game? How about an increase in disk writes? You can usually hear them. I would try running this program first:

http://majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_Slim_d4191.html

This is to ensure that it isn't something funky with drivers in your registry. But I would try running Disk

I would advise you not run a defrag. You have data you can still save. If you defrag and you have a bad hard drive.... well, you'll move some of your good data to bad clusters and start losing more data. At this point, you can throw your hard drive into another computer and rescue data.... school work, saved games, movies, mp3s, etc.

I would then run scandisk. Do it like this and don't touch your computer while its running.

Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk drive you want to check.

Click Properties, and then click Tools.

In Error-checking, click Check Now.

If you get a lot of bad sectors, its your hard drive. If not, you could be looking at a driver issue. Which version of Windows are you running? You could also be looking at a bad SATA controller/north bridge on your motherboard. We have to nail this down before it gets bad bad.

[Elder]

guys, it's not my hard drive, it's the fact that I DONT HAVE A GRAPHICS CARD WHAT SO EVER NOW. So, after this whole shit happened, I ran diagnostics on my video card and such (Radeon x300 series) (and this is after restarting the comp, and finding that it's back to a 800 X 600 resolution. I ran the diag again, and it said that I have no graphics card (as it says under manufacturer and such, ((n/a)). So, I popped in my drivers and utilities disc, found all the stuff that seemed right, extracted and installed it. Now my comp is running even slower, and Shit. fuck. fuck fuck fuck. I'm pissed. I should have never downloaded that. This all started with me downloading an update from ATI Cataclysm (a driver update) In which I though was for the Radeon X300.... evidently it wasn't. Any way fixing this whole issue? (it's not a virus either...)

[Elder]

lol wicked quick fix, all I had to do was update my ati Radion X300 Series driver, and I was all set! Fuck, that scared me but, I am back!