I am totally STUMPED

[Qwerty55]

Bought the game, installed it, played it for three days.

On day 4, it stopped recognizing the disk in the drive... so I ejected/inserted the disk and hit "play" when the little box came up

Blue screen of death, and machine rebooted

Uninstalled/reinstalled twice, same problem...

So, being stoopid with my money, I went to Best Buy and bought a brand new external DVD drive for 110 bucks...

Great progress...it no longer says I don't have a disk in the drive... it just gives me a quick flash of the blue screen and reboots my computer: every time I try it

Video drivers are up to date, DVD drive brand spankin' new... and the damn thing ran GREAT for three days

WTH???

I tossed it in the bottom drawer, when I really felt like tossing it in the trash

 

[Shurdus]

Do you have the same issues with other games? It should run fine because it always has. A fresh install of windows should fix the problem for you, but I can imagine that being a bit over the top.

 

[Qwerty55]

No, never had this kind of problem, ever.

Tried a system restore, no dice. I don't want to reinstall windows, that would be way more hassle than Sid is worth...
/sigh

 

[Qwerty55]

Ok, just so we get some closure here (put this in your Butterfly Effect file)

My headphones had gotten unplugged.

So when Sid tried looking for them during the multi-player voice initialization step they weren't there, and...

CRASH!!

One little mystery solved, one little drama over

 

[ColPaladin]

I had simular problems, but here is the odd part: It would say the disk was not in the drive, then said to go to "Securerom.com" to get more info. What in the world what THAT doing on there?