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| Thread ID: 58229 | 2005-05-25 11:43:00 | BSOD caused by Bad Memory ? | Jams (1051) | Press F1 |
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| 358360 | 2005-05-25 11:43:00 | Hey All. occasionaly my system restarts itself, and craps its pants with a dialog box complaining about my RAM. about 2 mins ago it restarted itself whilst trying to boot up CS:Source. Upon reboot, it blue screened me with this: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and the numbers at the bottom are as follows: STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x3D4E12E0, 0x000000FF, 0x00000000, 0xF797FBF0). or is this a software problem..And if i was to format, can i just copy the Counter Strike Source .GCF files to a CD and copy them back to the directory after a re-install of windows, and after HalfLife 2 is installed...instead of waiting for a motherload of updates to download ?. System: AMD3000+ 64 512 Legend DD400 RAM GeForce 6600GT 120GIG Seagate HDD Gigabyte K8NS Mobo |
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| 358361 | 2005-05-25 11:56:00 | kadaitcha.cx | bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 358362 | 2005-05-26 00:10:00 | Is it the same error every time? It may not be bad memory but perhaps misconfigured? Sometimes new bioses can detect incorrent SPD setting for older ram, or not supply enough voltage, or just be flat out incompatible. However 0xD1 errors are usually caused by a bad driver. My first recommendation would be to update everything to the latest, particularly the nforce3 chipset driver (www.nvidia.com). Make sure you uninstall any old ones before installing the new package, uninstalling the chipset drivers will break the video drivers as well so uninstall them first. So in summary try this (in order): -Download the latest nvidia nforce and detonator drivers from www.nvidia.com -Uninstall video (nvidia detonator) drivers -Uninstall nforce drivers -Reboot and let the system redetect everything (just click next to all new hardware found prompts, if it doesn't find a driver it doesn't matter but don't click cancel) -Reboot again -Install nforce chipset drivers -Install video drivers Hopefully that will fix it. If it doesn't you'll need to start looking at possible hardware causes such as the ram configuration in bios. As for backing up CS Source... copying the .gcf files may not work, I'd use the built in backup option to be safe. It compresses it too which is a bonus, and can split it up for burning to multiple CDs. |
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