well this sucks...

[betaman]

My current case is pretty small, it wasn't meant to take a completely new power supply and video card, so I often take the side panel off or the Graphics card constantly overheats. A couple months ago I was playing a game and scooted my chair back.... *pop*. The leg of my chair was in the loop of some wires and I yanked the wire out of my hard drive by accident.

Now this I thought would ruin my hard drive, I thought I would need to reformat and everything... But when I turned it back on it seemed to be working normally. I de-fragmented, cleaned junk and really just did everything I possibly could to insure its safety (even a spyware and virus scan). Every piece of software on my computer still worked, except the game I was playing (Oblivion). Even after reinstalling and deleting every trace of the game and reinstalling it wouldn't work. The only way I can get it to work now is if I go into the .ini file and turn bmusicenabled to 0 (which means I disable music).

So did Oblivion sacrifice itself for the sake of my computer or what? Also what should I do jeez?

[Pitch]

Sounds like “Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc” to me. . . It's hard not to think that way sometimes, especially with computers. (I make these errors all the time) I'd imagine something else happened to cause that, and you're just not thinking about it. I'd imagine if disabling music is what makes it work, something to do with audio may be causing the game not to work. For the sake of being thorough, what happens when you try to start the game and it doesn't work?

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PostHoc ergo Propter Hoc: A happened, then B happened, therefore A caused B. In other words, erroneously naming a CAUSE to an EFFECT.

[betaman]

When I start the game with music enabled it shows me the menu screen (the scrolling map in the background is really laggy too for some reason), and when I go to new game or load game it just crashes. I downloaded latest audio drivers and video drivers so I don't know why it would be doing this except for the fact of the wire popping out.