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| Thread ID: 51095 | 2004-11-11 08:43:00 | Arh, Memory problems | fergie (424) | Press F1 |
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| 290594 | 2004-11-12 23:44:00 | have you tried your graphics card in a different system?, did you have intergrated graphics before you installed your radeon? | Prescott (11) | ||
| 290595 | 2004-11-13 00:05:00 | ok, done a few things. 1) updated the vid card drivers again... still no luck 2) done a windows update... no luck 3) reinstalled Media Player... no luck And i just ran that mem test program, how long does it take!!? i thought it would be a few minutes! I left it for 40mins, and it had passed every test, but i needed my pc back! So i'll do a full test tonight. No, i haven't tried the vid card in another system, and nope - no onboard vid - i've had this card for a year now... It's all been since i done a format and install, only since then i have been having prob's |
fergie (424) | ||
| 290596 | 2004-11-13 00:15:00 | got the latest mobo or chipest drivers | Prescott (11) | ||
| 290597 | 2004-11-13 00:25:00 | Try reducing the memory speed temporarily . If it works like that, the memory is fast enough "most of the time" . :D Try using only one stick . It's highly suspicious that the same address is holding "0" rather than a real address . (Address 0 is never accessed by any programme) . I believe that memtest86 is pretty good, but I've always taken the attitude that memory which passes a memory test just proves that it can pass a memory test . I've still seen errors while running real programmes . :O Swapping the memory sticks and getting the same error is odd . It's unlikely to be a memory address line fault (because the address is not a"boundary") . . . . I wonder if it's a fault in the cache . ? Ummm . ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 290598 | 2004-11-13 01:57:00 | hey. Na, i don't have the lastest BIOS, but i'm downloading it now - i've never done a BIOS upgrade b4, so i hope it all goes well! And Graham, i'll try dropping the speed, i'll do it b4 the bios update. >I wonder if it's a fault in the cache. Is this fixable? I don't really no much about the workings of windows, i also thought it could be something to do with virtual memory, or swapfile, or am i on a different planet with thoughts like this :P? |
fergie (424) | ||
| 290599 | 2004-11-13 02:04:00 | well, still no luck.. i droped the speed down from 133mhz to 100mhz, and still does same thing. just out of curiosity, what speed should it be? I'm running a Athlon 1800 XP with 333mhz Ram. I'll go try this BIOS update now... |
fergie (424) | ||
| 290600 | 2004-11-13 02:26:00 | >I'll go try this BIOS update now... oh god, are you sure you really wanna do this, one false move and you have yourself a paper weight. carefull, what does the bios update say, will it fix the problem? anyone else have any ideas before he does this?? >just out of curiosity, what speed should it be? >I'm running a Athlon 1800 XP with 333mhz Ram. so is the ram or the cpu overclocked, is it overheating? what about if you try a another clean format? |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 290601 | 2004-11-13 03:08:00 | hows your antivirus program...........I ask becaue there is a very common nasty which often masquerades as 'wmplayer.exe'...........maybe you better chck it out.. | drcspy (146) | ||
| 290602 | 2004-11-13 03:21:00 | >oh god, are you sure you really wanna do this o crap, lol shoulda waited until i saw you post that. posting thsi from my parents pc, yeas, so not good... na, i've always wanted to update the bios on this mobo - had a few small niggles that (apparently) a update would fix, so thought heres my chance! um, i read the readme, done wot it said word for word - was actually preety easy, and the end report said "Update Successful, no errors" so thought tht was good! But now, windows doesn't boot... lol, just my luck Done a chkdsk scan, no good, and can't even boot in safemode.. i'm goona look on the chaintech site, and see if i can flash the old, original version back - is this possible? |
fergie (424) | ||
| 290603 | 2004-11-13 03:32:00 | oh dear........ do the fans spin? rip open the case and see if you can clear the cmos, hopefully you dont have a paper weight :( this is one reason i personally dont wann flash the bios of my system, if i ever needed it to this i would get a pro to do this, and if they stuff it up they can pay for it :) any way back to your problem.... this might help ya www.wimsbios.com |
Prescott (11) | ||
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