[Dark Hunter]

This is really bugging me now. Every five months or so my computer loves to play a mean little trick on me. All of my SCP FRED builds... every. last. one. fail. I try to open them, and it give me the generic "This program has encountered a problem and needs to close" message. In the past, the problem went away after a simple defragging, but this time it is persistent. I've defragged the computer twice now, and no FRED builds are working.

Has anyone had a problem remotely similiar to this, and if so, how in the world did you get it to go away?


EDIT: Erm... well, I ran a defrag again, just for the hell of it, and now FRED is working... 

I'm so confused...

[DarkShadow-]

I really wonder how a fragmentation can create such errors. Usually a defrag just makes everything a little bit faster and doesn't solve huge problems.

Perhaps a virus or anything else that kills the builds?
Just guessing, I don't really have an idea.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Are you low on hard drive space?  Do you have a permenant swap file?  You could try defragging again and as soon as you are done create a swap file with a minimum of about 2x times the memory in your machine and no max.  If it's XP put the largest value it will accept for max.   That is about the only things I can think of outside of viruses and malware that would cause something like that.  Wait thought of one more.  Bad sector on the HD perhaps?  Might want to get a util from the HD manufacture and scan that baby.

[Dark Hunter]

Well, I'm definitely not low on HD space (about half-ful, it is) so that can't be it...


Bad sector... hmmm. My parents have been saying for a while that the machine is... screwy. I'll suggest it. Perhaps that will help some.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Just look at what type of hard drive it is.  Most of the HD manufactures and some of the PC companies have utilities that will test the drive without destorying any data.  Just don't count on mickyesoft's scan.