Lime Wire Installation crashes my computer!!

[brindlegreatdane]

I purchased lime wire and installed the software. After installing the software my computer started giving me error reports and then immediately following the error reports the computer would restart itself. I had to unistall the Lime Wire software in safe mode to get my computer to work again. Is there a solution to my problem? I have paid for the service and now I cannot even use it.

[Lord of the Rings]

Did you contact LW Pro support? http://www.limewire.com/english/content/support.shtml

It's difficult to offer advice without details of your set up. What graphic card are you using? Which OS? Which version of Java?

[mrodpr]

Ok, I was really excited to get limewire because my cousin had recomended it and told me it was great. So I go home and begin downloading from the site the basic LW. After installation is complete it tells me that my computer is blocking some things necessary to run LW and asks me if I want to unblock. I pressed unblock and the computer immediately went into a quick blue screen, turned itself off and restarted. When window xp came back up it said it had recovered from a serious error and asked if i wanted to send a report. i said no and the computer went blue again and off and restarted. it did this several times wether i sent an error report or not. i finally pressed F8 during a restart, went to safe mode and uninstalled LW. I tried to install the "offline" version from the website and the same thing happened. I dont know much about computers so I dont know what is happening or what i can do. Please help, I am really looking forward to using LW.

[Lord of the Rings]

BSD (blue screen of death) problems are generally hardware related. It may be incompatible components or out of date drivers or memory chip that's failing.

Can you give us a total desciption of your set up:
1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98)
2. What firewalls you have?
3. How much ram?
4. Hard Disk space available?
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
8. What version of Java do you have?
9. Who is your isp provider (Internet Service Provider)?
10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
11. What graphics card brand & model to you have?
These details are vital if you want us to help find what your problem is.

[shine napper]

Hi

Mine did the same thing, I was advised to change the colour setting from 32 bit to 16 bit and it worked! Dont ask me why because it's way over my head