I installed the trial for Age of Conan yesterday.  After playing for several hours the game crashed, nothing suprising I'd heard alot about the glitchiness of the game.  I restarted my computer, played for a few more hours only to have the game crash again.  Now when I boot my computer it says "Floppy Disk(s) Fail(40)" and then If I press continue (F1) it says "operating system missing".  Did Age of Conan really just delete my operating system?

I'm no computer wiz but I'm sure the specs on my computer were good enough to run the game on high graphic settings, the game was running absolutely perfectly until it crashed.  Since I only have a trial account I can't even post on the official Age of Conan forums.  After a year of this game being out I find it rediculous that it still is having such serious technical problems.  Any advise on how to fix my computer without reinstalling everything, if possible, would be appreciated.

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Originally posted by Evilzim
I installed the trial for Age of Conan yesterday.  After playing for several hours the game crashed, nothing suprising I'd heard alot about the glitchiness of the game.  I restarted my computer, played for a few more hours only to have the game crash again.  Now when I boot my computer it says "Floppy Disk Error" and then If I press continue (F1) it says "operating system missing".  Did Age of Conan really just delete my operating system?
I'm no computer wiz but I'm sure the specs on my computer were good enough to run the game on high graphic settings, the game was running absolutely perfectly until it crashed.  Since I only have a trial account I can't even post on the official Age of Conan forums.  After a year of this game being out I find it rediculous that it still is having such serious technical problems.  Any advise on how to fix my computer without reinstalling everything, if possible, would be appreciated.

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Hmm..You heard of the glitchiness of the game ?

There is no glitchiness in AoC as far as I know, not any more problems than other MMO's ...

If your drives was corrupted and you installed AoC on those clusters it could be possiblibe for such things to happen..

Reinstall windows

It's not impossible that while crashing your BIOS boot-sequence was somehow reset..

Depending on your motherboard and all other stuff, press DEL when booting up. Go into whatever menu that controls the booting sequence.

Make sure the first one is not set to floppy (if you don't have one).. and that it doesn't halt on devices not found...

If i'm wrong i'm wrong... but better trying than not :)

If your drives was corrupted and you installed AoC on those clusters it could be possiblibe for such things to happen..

I was refering to the slew of technical difficulties that had been reported at the games launch.  I haven't been following the game for sometime, if it has improved significantly, I'm glad.  My issue is the computer I was playing on was not owned by my parents, there are documents and files on their that they need... Is there any other possible way of getting the computer working that you know of...

Originally posted by Wuushu

It's not impossible that while crashing your BIOS boot-sequence was somehow reset..

Depending on your motherboard and all other stuff, press DEL when booting up. Go into whatever menu that controls the booting sequence.

 

Make sure the first one is not set to floppy (if you don't have one).. and that it doesn't halt on devices not found...

 

If i'm wrong i'm wrong... but better trying than not :)

 

 

Thanks! I'll try that now!

Edit: Didn't work, the first one was set to diskette drive and the second to hard drive.  I switched them and nothing happened.

If you have Windows XP you can do a reinstall on top of the old one without losing your old settings or information, assuming that just something small on the hard drive is corrupted, not all the information. I don't know if it works on Vista tough.

But games like AoC don't kill the computers. Games may cause crashes, but if your computer stops working while playing a game it's most likely a hardware failure or something with the operating system or drivers, not anything the game would have done.

EDIT: You might also want to try running some program wich would rewrite the boot record, that being corrupted might be one possible problem. I just don't know any other way to do it with Windows machines than reinstallation. /EDIT

Originally posted by Vrika

If you have Windows XP you can do a reinstall on top of the old one without losing your old settings or information, assuming that just something small on the hard drive is corrupted, not all the information. I don't know if it works on Vista tough.

But games like AoC don't kill the computers. Games may cause crashes, but if your computer stops working while playing a game it's most likely a hardware failure or something with the operating system or drivers, not anything the game would have done.

EDIT: You might also want to try running some program wich would rewrite the boot record, that being corrupted might be one possible problem. I just don't know any other way to do it with Windows machines than reinstallation. /EDIT

It is vista, unfortunately, so I'm not sure if this will work, although I guess I'm willing to try... Also any idea on what program would rewrite the boot record?  I'm not an expert with computers...

The thing that happened to your computer is 99% certain that can't be blamed on AoC. However the problem you mention I have seend before. It indicates that there is a problem with some files for windows and that the system cannot find the files required to load it.

OS missing usually means you have to reinstall the OS, however how old is your hard drive? or the computer itself? There can be many reasons for OS gone missing such as bad clusters on hard drive or that the hard drive simply is about to die.

Originally posted by Crashloop

The thing that happened to your computer is 99% certain that can't be blamed on AoC. However the problem you mention I have seend before. It indicates that there is a problem with some files for windows and that the system cannot find the files required to load it.

OS missing usually means you have to reinstall the OS, however how old is your hard drive? or the computer itself? There can be many reasons for OS gone missing such as bad clusters on hard drive or that the hard drive simply is about to die.

The computer is at most two months old... Do you know if its possible to reinstall the OS without erasing everything on the computer in Vista?

Originally posted by Evilzim

Originally posted by Crashloop

The thing that happened to your computer is 99% certain that can't be blamed on AoC. However the problem you mention I have seend before. It indicates that there is a problem with some files for windows and that the system cannot find the files required to load it.

OS missing usually means you have to reinstall the OS, however how old is your hard drive? or the computer itself? There can be many reasons for OS gone missing such as bad clusters on hard drive or that the hard drive simply is about to die.

 

The computer is at most two months old... Do you know if its possible to reinstall the OS without erasing everything on the computer in Vista?

You can try to run the repair utility that windows provides, when isnatlling you can either choose full install or try to repair the previous installation. I have never really used the repair thingy as I keep my important stuff on a different disk then C:. Too many episodes like this when I was playing around and learning how the computer works :P

If this doesn't work you can take the hard drive out or get a friend to do it and put it in his computer, as long as you don't need the files under your user these should be easy to get out. that is of course as long as the disk isn't damaged .

This should not happen on a 2 month computer, but I had a simialr case on a friends computer some months back, they have sent the computer to repair, but not heard anything yet how that goes. I took the backup using my computer and installing their Harddrive in it. That was Vista too, and they had blue screens appearing for some month or so before the computer finally crashed. Have you had any blue screens?

Originally posted by Crashloop

Originally posted by Evilzim

Originally posted by Crashloop

The thing that happened to your computer is 99% certain that can't be blamed on AoC. However the problem you mention I have seend before. It indicates that there is a problem with some files for windows and that the system cannot find the files required to load it.

OS missing usually means you have to reinstall the OS, however how old is your hard drive? or the computer itself? There can be many reasons for OS gone missing such as bad clusters on hard drive or that the hard drive simply is about to die.

 

The computer is at most two months old... Do you know if its possible to reinstall the OS without erasing everything on the computer in Vista?

You can try to run the repair utility that windows provides, when isnatlling you can either choose full install or try to repair the previous installation. I have never really used the repair thingy as I keep my important stuff on a different disk then C:. Too many episodes like this when I was playing around and learning how the computer works :P

If this doesn't work you can take the hard drive out or get a friend to do it and put it in his computer, as long as you don't need the files under your user these should be easy to get out. that is of course as long as the disk isn't damaged .

This should not happen on a 2 month computer, but I had a simialr case on a friends computer some months back, they have sent the computer to repair, but not heard anything yet how that goes. I took the backup using my computer and installing their Harddrive in it. That was Vista too, and they had blue screens appearing for some month or so before the computer finally crashed. Have you had any blue screens?

I'll try running the repair.  The computer was running perfectly, I hadn't noticed a single glitch until the incident with Age of Conan.  No blue screens what-so-ever.

I haven't had to do this in Vista so I don't know if it works, but you can open a DOS box (which you can still do in Vista btw) and type chkdsk /F/R and when you rebooted it would repair what is needed. I think it is /f/r if not just type chkdsk /? for the switch options then just retype the with the switches you want.

It sounds like what someone said your BIOS went wacko and needs to be reset or you're getting bad clusters on your hard drive and the drive is about to go.

Just my opinion/suggestion. I hope you get it up and running!

Originally posted by Evilzim

My issue is the computer I was playing on was not owned by my parents, there are documents and files on their that they need... Is there any other possible way of getting the computer working that you know of...

In information technology, backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. These additional copies are typically called "backups." Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster (called disaster recovery). The second is to restore small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted. Data loss is also very common. 66% of internet users have suffered from serious data loss.

Next time, backup information periodically.

Originally posted by Evilzim

I installed the trial for Age of Conan yesterday.  After playing for several hours the game crashed, nothing suprising I'd heard alot about the glitchiness of the game.  I restarted my computer, played for a few more hours only to have the game crash again.  Now when I boot my computer it says "Floppy Disk(s) Fail(40)" and then If I press continue (F1) it says "operating system missing".  Did Age of Conan really just delete my operating system?

I'm no computer wiz but I'm sure the specs on my computer were good enough to run the game on high graphic settings, the game was running absolutely perfectly until it crashed.  Since I only have a trial account I can't even post on the official Age of Conan forums.  After a year of this game being out I find it rediculous that it still is having such serious technical problems.  Any advise on how to fix my computer without reinstalling everything, if possible, would be appreciated.

-please try and post your computer config (parts)

-there are NO glitches what so ever in AOC as of now , at least nothing like what you are sdescribing... i never turn off my computer and the game is always running, no problems at all.

-that sounds to me like a bad hard drive (fried hard drive), even if you reinstall the OS again, you shouoldnt trust that HDD any more.

Originally posted by clearSam

Originally posted by Evilzim

I installed the trial for Age of Conan yesterday.  After playing for several hours the game crashed, nothing suprising I'd heard alot about the glitchiness of the game.  I restarted my computer, played for a few more hours only to have the game crash again.  Now when I boot my computer it says "Floppy Disk(s) Fail(40)" and then If I press continue (F1) it says "operating system missing".  Did Age of Conan really just delete my operating system?

I'm no computer wiz but I'm sure the specs on my computer were good enough to run the game on high graphic settings, the game was running absolutely perfectly until it crashed.  Since I only have a trial account I can't even post on the official Age of Conan forums.  After a year of this game being out I find it rediculous that it still is having such serious technical problems.  Any advise on how to fix my computer without reinstalling everything, if possible, would be appreciated.

-please try and post your computer config (parts)

-there are NO glitches what so ever in AOC as of now , at least nothing like what you are sdescribing... i never turn off my computer and the game is always running, no problems at all.

-that sounds to me like a bad hard drive (fried hard drive), even if you reinstall the OS again, you shouoldnt trust that HDD any more.

 

I just recently played and gave a level 30 review called "Why I left AoC".  I had a new mobo, but with old nVidia 6800 sli and had no problems, no bugs, and used 2 gigs of ram, and amd athalon fx2 cpu.  Maybe it was a coincidence and your motherboard was going bad, or your power supply could have surged and burned out your mobo (that happened to me once... I could smell something burning too).
 

Could just be a coincidence, it could have broke down with any other game ... who knows?

/shrugs

Maybe repair windows, but you may have to do a complete reinstall.

Good Luck

Probably your PSU couldn't handle the load. AoC is a pretty demanding game so it'll push most components to near their max load, which really stresses the PSU if you have a low-wattage one. With a failing PSU your HDD could have corrupted data or even fried.

Sometimes a simple BIOS reset can work wonders... it has for me. Look at your motherboard instruction on how to reset your BIOS. Good luck.

Originally posted by Wuushu

It's not impossible that while crashing your BIOS boot-sequence was somehow reset..

Depending on your motherboard and all other stuff, press DEL when booting up. Go into whatever menu that controls the booting sequence.

 

Make sure the first one is not set to floppy (if you don't have one).. and that it doesn't halt on devices not found...

 

If i'm wrong i'm wrong... but better trying than not :)

The most likely problem.  I've had this happen on my current and previous PC both. 

A failed boot is one thing.  A boot that doesn't see an OS usually means it's not looking in the right place.  Only 2 things that would cause this is a reset boot order or the Master Boot Record on your OS drive getting wiped by hardware failure or a virus.

It seems like a hardware problem. Most likely your hard drive that has some bad sectors. However AoC could have messed up your computer, cos I have a friend of mine that had similar problems after launching the game. Dont listen to all the fanbois in here, just stay away from AoC and play some game that actually works like most game should do.