More Ram Problems

Post by **DiscoDave** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:57 pm

Apologies on making a second thread, but I have tried all reccomended solutions given to me but with no luck.

To recap:

Mainly in games they crash to desktop with no prior warning. Dungeon siege 2 somtimes comes up with "BAD_MEM_Error" after crashing. I get the following errors messages on start up:

and this one in CS : S

I've tried not running in dual channel mode, switching slots, giving the ram more voltage, resetting to defauly settings etc. Its croshair value dual channel kit (2x512 matched pair)

Without spending money on RAM, i want to rule out the possibbility of it not being a motherboard problem. Unfortunatly I dont have any spare ram to transplant atm.

I've got a hunch its just the ram but would like some other opinions.

Thanks

David

Post by **Doombrain** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:06 pm

No, it's the RAM. Sorry

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:25 pm

Back off your ram timings in your bios a little, see if it clears shit up

Post by **DiscoDave** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:08 pm

cant set it down, already at CAS 3.0

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:45 pm

Post by **Don Carlos** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:02 pm

test 4 u
run the connecters down with a little bit of wire wool
only once or twice quickly

Post by **PieceMaker** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:54 pm

Don Carlos wrote:test 4 u
run the connecters down with a little bit of wire wool
only once or twice quickly

A pencil eraser might be better, no?

*waves* hey DC.

You going ot be in netrex's q3w movie reefsurfer started?

( reply in PM so we don't clutter up DiscoDave's topic )

Post by **DiscoDave** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:17 pm

Ta donney but still same problem.

I've had a rethink, could it be my graphics card RAM thats buggered?

I got this error when trying to install my new drivers

Same address as the CLI.exe errors (see top)

Post by **Tormentius** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:21 pm

Doombrain is probably right, it looks like a RAM issue. Download this and run it for 6 hours. If you encounter an error, your RAM is faulty.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:22 pm

One thing I didn't see in your list of things you tried is running just one ram stick.

Take one out and run for a week. If the problem still occurs, swap the sticks and repeat. If this fixes it, you've confirmed one of the sticks is bad and you can talk to Corsair or whoever your supplier was.

If this does not fix the problem then I would be inclined to beleive that it's not a ram problem. The odds of both sticks having a fault seems quite slim.

Post by **DiscoDave** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:14 am

Well,

I've installed a .net fix(1.1) and it seems to have got rid of the error message when trying to install my graphics card drivers, and the two that appear on start up. Woa.

Anyway, I'll run memtest overnight tonight. Will post later, thanks

Post by **DiscoDave** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:44 am

Ran memtest overnight, managed to loop round about 10 times (1650%). Not a single error.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:46 pm

good news

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:48 pm

DiscoDave wrote:Ran memtest overnight, managed to loop round about 10 times (1650%). Not a single error.

Wurd.. just did that with 2 gigs of ram.. no errors.. still fucked ram..

Post by **DiscoDave** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:30 pm

Well ever since i installed the .netfix ive not had a single damn problem with my computer. Bloody weird that