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  • agallag
    Super MURCer
    • Aug 1999
    • 3201
    #1

    Expendable crashing to desktop - SOLVED

    I finally figured out why expendable was crashing out all the time. After my last motherboard bios update, the setting to shadow video bios to ram was activated. I turned it back off, and bingo, expendable works again.

    So if someone is really compiling a g400 FAQ out there, make sure to include turning off the bios shadow.

    Now if only it was a good game to start with

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    • Wombat
      Super MURCer
      • Aug 2000
      • 9498
      #2
      up!
      Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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        • bobby2
          MURCer
          • Aug 1999
          • 129
          #3
          Why? (should the BIOS cacheing be turned off)

          bert
          G400 32 D/H, PIII650@840, ABIT-BE6II, MX300

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            • agallag
              Super MURCer
              • Aug 1999
              • 3201
              #4
              I had it off before, which explains why expendable worked the first time I tried it. After a BIOS update on my mobo, I forgot to turn it off again.
              Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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                • Hunsow
                  MURCer
                  • Aug 1999
                  • 657
                  #5
                  Because it makes no difference in speed and only can cause trouble like the thread title.

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                    • DarkSyd
                      MURCer
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 392
                      #6
                      Holy BIOS options Batman! Turn off all caching?

                      I wish I had seen that somewhere earlier.

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                        • Hunsow
                          MURCer
                          • Aug 1999
                          • 657
                          #7
                          Why was it on in the first place? You should not only turn of all shadowing, but also all caching. Well except cpu caching of course.

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                            • Zypher
                              MURCer
                              • Sep 1999
                              • 155
                              #8
                              Thats news to me, since most motherboard manuals have wording in effect to the contrary. Wouldn't surprise me though, because they always worry about backward compatibility. I don't care if some god-ancient POS isa videocard works on my motherboard though. I'll try it (re: bdf error)

                              Hopefully when 820/810e come out, isa really DOES disappear off the boar completely. (You listening abit and asus?!) I've purged my motherboard slots already.

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                                • agallag
                                  Super MURCer
                                  • Aug 1999
                                  • 3201
                                  #9
                                  The BDF error means you're trying to launch the game without the cd in the drive.
                                  Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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