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| Thread ID: 44639 | 2004-04-25 06:48:00 | ARRRG !!! COMPUTER JUST DIED!!!!!! | agent_24 (4330) | Press F1 |
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| 232044 | 2004-04-25 06:48:00 | The computer I was having a video issue has just died. after fixing the problem (I turned "write combining" off), I loaded up prince of persia 3D. started playing it then went to answer the phone. came back an hour later when the computer started making a horrible noise and had an XP Bluescreen of (proper) death. I would have written the error down but due to horrible noises i just turned the thing off straight away. then i tried rebooting it, upon which i got no horrible sounds, and nothing else much either. only continuious long beeps which the manual tells me are what it does when it cant detect the RAM. (i assume my ram has died for no good reason) If anyone can help, please do so!! |
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| 232045 | 2004-04-25 06:50:00 | Plug in another harddrive and see if she boots. | metla (154) | ||
| 232046 | 2004-04-25 06:53:00 | im sorry, but im not entirely sure how that would help?? | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 232047 | 2004-04-25 07:04:00 | okay, i tried that but i still get the beeps and nothing on screen | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 232048 | 2004-04-25 08:57:00 | I asumed the "horrible noises" you referred to were the grinding of a failed harddrive,i personally wouldn't describe beeping as a horrible noise,rather a helpful one. Anyhow,my mistake. what are the pattern of beeps,and how do they relate to the motherboards reference of beeps? And how many sticks of ram are in your system,you could alternate them if you have 2. |
metla (154) | ||
| 232049 | 2004-04-25 09:09:00 | i think the horrible noise was the game i had been running, that was frozen and playing the same loop of sound over and over..... i took one of the sticks out and the thing booted, so i ran it a while, it seemed fine - then i turned off, cleaned the ram i took out (sounds insane, but it was dusty) then put it back in, and it worked fine - for a more while when it genrated a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA which Microsoft say is due to faulty ram (just about any type) or a bad antivirus program, or a incompatible device driver. as it happens mine said the cause was to do with nv4disp.dll or something, one of the nVidia drivers it seems. hopefully an update will fix this (i recall having bluescreen errors with this card before) | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 232050 | 2004-04-25 09:21:00 | Ok, i now announce that the suspect ram is probably rather suspect, and that ASUS is a weirdo. After taking out the seemingly stuffed 128mb stick, the system will boot - but the CPU is then underclocked to 600mhz. the bios insists this is because the CPU was overclocked. i have checked it out with the bootable Intel CPU speed checker, and the speed, FSB, and Ram MHZ are all proper and good. this is really totally mad | agent_24 (4330) | ||
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