Thank you for this. The one that twojeff's made won't work for me. So I'm going to try this one.

The blue screen of death is happing to a lot of people, including myself. Check out this post on MTS2.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=117748&c=1&page=5&pp=25

No one seems to know what is causing this. I still haven't been able to play. The people on MTS2 have tried everything from reinstalling to reformatting. Lots have new systems. All the new drivers are giving me the blue screen. I like many others are still testing older drivers.

AMD Athlon xp
1700+ 1.5gh
RAM 1025 gigs
Graphics Card: GeForce FX 5700 LE with 256mb
Direct X 9.0