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More Ram Problems
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:57 pm
by DiscoDave
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
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:06 pm
by Doombrain
No, it's the RAM. Sorry
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:25 pm
by SOAPboy
Back off your ram timings in your bios a little, see if it clears shit up
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:08 pm
by DiscoDave
cant set it down, already at CAS 3.0
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:45 pm
by SOAPboy
hmm
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:02 pm
by Don Carlos
test 4 u
run the connecters down with a little bit of wire wool
only once or twice quickly
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:54 pm
by PieceMaker
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 )
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:17 pm
by DiscoDave
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)
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:21 pm
by Tormentius
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.
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:22 pm
by Foo
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:14 am
by DiscoDave
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
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:44 am
by DiscoDave
Ran memtest overnight, managed to loop round about 10 times (1650%). Not a single error.
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:46 pm
by Don Carlos
good news
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:48 pm
by SOAPboy
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..
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:30 pm
by DiscoDave
Well ever since i installed the .netfix ive not had a single damn problem with my computer. Bloody weird that