io error

I think you missed a slash, that is, what you saw was "i/o error". That means, simply put, a disk drive error. Is this a game you burned to a disk?

I have never downloaded the game. And I have no idea how to burn something to a disk.

I went back to google. Some say i/o and others say io. I'm sure the game says io.

I can't check now because I went back to the game and I got in. However, this has happened before. In and then not in.

I’m not an expert on computers by any means but if you ran AVG and found that many problems my guess is you have some malware that wasn’t detected by AVG. Do you have Microsoft Security Essentials? If not you can down load it from here and it will check your registry files as well.

Microsoft Security Essentials

I/O Errors are not usually associated with viruses. It's more likely that your computer is developing a hardware issue, probably with the disk drive (which is where all your data is stored).

How old is your computer? Is it Windows or Mac? Do you have backups already?

jc, The AVG checked and fixed the registry problems.

rosborne, My computer is Windows 2002. What do you mean by backups? I don't have anything ready. You're making me noivous.

He means have you saved any important files that are presently on your hard drive in any other place other then your computer's hard drive? A separate removable hard drive? Or some cloud based storage site online? He's asking just in case your computer has a hardware failure whereas you may lose any important files because you can't turn on your computer due to said hardware failure.

Hi Roberta, Tsar is right, that's what I was talking about.

You should have backups (copies) of anything in your computer that you think is important (anything you don't want to lose). You should do this regardless of any errors you machine may be having, it's just good general practice.

Beyond that, I'm concerned that your hard drive (the main place all your files are stored) may be failing. It sounds like your computer is over 10 years old now so it wouldn't be too surprising to have a hard drive fail.

With a computer that age (even though almost anything is repairable), I think it's more cost effective to replace it completely than to try to have it fixed. A techie nerd could probably put a second drive in and mirror it, but I doubt that's something you want to do yourself. And paying someone else to do it will cost almost as much as a new machine (which you might enjoy anyway just for the speed increases and additional software which is supported).

I appreciate the info and the concern. I have absolutely positively no money for a new computer or a new anything. And I didn't understand much of the rest of what you said.

However, the AVG thing did some defragmenting or whatever. At the moment things are fine.

Sigh, I hate being a computer idiot. Sorry to be so dense.