SL crash at gender selection

Hi, I'm trying to play a second character, but when I get in game and it prompts me to choose a gender, I click one and the game crashes. My other character works perfectly fine, and even allows me to enter Appearance mode without issue. Its just this new character that gives problems.

I am getting error messages from my computer popping up with random SL file, saying that file is corrupt and unreadable, and that I should run "Chkdsk". I've done that, and it fixes the file, but then when I run SL again, it happens all over again.

I've tried updating my driver (which turned out to be counter-productive, as when I upgraded my Radeon 9250 to the Catalyst 5.1 driver, I began to get warning messages at the login screen saying my card should be updated to at least Catalyst 3.8, which I found very odd since you'd think 5.1 would be *better* than 3.8. Anyway, I rolled the update back to whatever I had before and stopped getting the warning message.

I still had the pop up error messages from my computer about SL files, so I tried updating my virus/spyware program and running that, updated Windows, restarted the computer, ran yet another Chkdsk, I've uninstalled and reinstalled SL 3 times, and nothing seems to work.

When I spoke to someone in Live help, he suggested that it must be my video card since Appearance mode is client-side, but as I mentioned, I can enter Appearance mode on my old character just fine. So....I'm stuck and clueless as to what to do next. Help? Anyone?

SL is oddball with Ati drivers, try these see if it does something for you

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

I tried downloading the Catalyst 5.9 driver from there and installed it, but had the same problems. That site is useful for at least having older driver updates that ATI wont give out, though. Anyway I really doubt it is a driver problem, as I have been playing the game *just fine* for months now with the same card and driver.

Looks like you have a bad temporary cache file (it keeps getting referenced in your crash logs). I'd suggest uninstalling Second Life from the Windows Control Panel, then reinstalling it from http://secondlife.com/download to remove these temporary files.