For some reason, I can't play at PokerStars anymore. Everytime I load their software and select a table, windows gives me a good ol' blue screen of death, performs a physical memory dump and then reboots.

The details from the blue screen error seems to point towards some kind of hardware issue (RAM, maybe Vid card) but the only time I get the error is when I'm trying to play on stars. I've uninstalled/reinstalled stars and have completed a reinstall of windows (not a full format/reinstall, just a repair installation.) I'm going to be doing a full install shortly as I've been planning to for awhile but I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced similar issues and/or had any suggestions.

Please post the filenames involved when you bluescreen, fairly easy to figure out if you can post a pic of the bluescreen actually.

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It doesn't give me any filenames but I do get the following stop error:
STOP: 0X0000008E (0XC0000005, 0XF7B5826D, 0XEE1C9C90, 0X00000000)

I'll try and grab a screenshot the next time it happens (I'd do it right now but I'm playing a SnG on UB.)

what is your system like?

when was the last time you did a windows and driver update?

try using stars beta version instead of regular

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they are the same now from what I can tell

Here's the thing, my main harddrive blew about a month ago. As a temporary solution, I installed an old 4GB harddrive and installed Windows on it. I never expected to be using it this long, so I never really applied windows/drivers updates or never installed any AV software.

Needless to say the system hasn't been running its best and I have had some issues with viruses but up until yesterday pokerstars was working fine. I'm not going to worry too much about it until I can get a new harddrive and reinstall windows but the reason I made this thread was because I had been doing some googling on the whole thing and came across another couple of forums where people had reported similar issues with the PS software. I just wanted to see if anyone on here had experienced simiar symptoms.

how much free memory is on your drive?

how much ram?

harddrives are cheap man

Jeezus..... WinXP will eat all that up in a heartbeat. 4GB's drives are onlpy good for FAT32 systems, like Win98.

I think thats your problem right there. You need to get a new HDD. I just bought a 250gb from woot.com for $50 a few months ago... spiffy. You can find similar deals all over.

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