Blue screen of death! Re-Installation problems!

[nobdoor]

I've played SS online for the past few days with no problem. However today, I got the blue screen of death, indicating that an interrupt failed to process on my second core on my Q6600. I figured this was a hardware issue, but my findings have proved otherwise.

I am able to play Warhammer: Age of Reckoning with no issue. In fact, I can watch tv though my USB tv card while playing it. WAR has higher system requirements than DoW, so being able to do these two things at once leads me to believe that my issue is not graphics card related.

I have uninstalled SS, and reinstalled it. It took me 4 tries to do this, as my system crashed twice while attempting to do this.

I can successfully open SS now, but it does not patch. When I try to log on, it prompts me to patch, and results in 0/??? progress. When I patched earlier this week, it displayed approximately x/160000 bytes uploaded, and seemed to install fine.

Has anybody else had this BSOD problem?

[TBS]

The OS is responsible for handling interrupt calls, your BSOD could indicate a hardware or OS issue if its a frequent occurrence...but the way you describe it you make it seem like it only happened the once - is that right? Computers crash occasionally - one off crashes arent worth worrying about.

However, crashing whilst doing something relatively simple (uninstall and reinstall some software) isn't a good sign as to the overall health of your system. It might be worth thinking about doing a windows reinstall.

If you are having difficulty patching the game via the ingame downloader, just google for a mirror and download the patch manually.

[psykopatsak]

i think the site should be www.dowpatch.com

also, you could try to get new drivers for your processor.