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551399	2007-05-20 10:08:00	Woe. My PC has started doing this BSOD. I wonder if my dodgy PSU I replaced has caused some damage. I ran memtest, it reported no problems. Interestingly though, on boot when it reports the memory it shows: Tested: 2096128K, installed 2097152k. But memtest was ok. PC no different with either of its 2 pieces of ram in. It BSODed during FEAR. It BSODed when I was in DXDiag, just clicked Display tab. BSODed when I was part way into starting the latest ATI driver upgrade, its setup part. Put my X300 in now (sob), ran FEAR again (lame settings admittedly) and no crashes yet. Not entirely convinced its the card yet though.. Any second opinions? CPU is not overclocked and has never been. Its a AMD x2 5000+. New. Ram is 2 x 1Gb Kington DDR2-667. New. Graphics - the suspected one: X1900XTX, 14 months old.	pctek (84)
551400	2007-05-20 20:45:00	bump	pctek (84)
551401	2007-05-20 20:49:00	How much RAM does Windows pick up? Did it usually show those amounts? What is the exact BSOD error? Any drivers/files in that error? Try tried the card in another PC?	The_End_Of_Reality (334)
551402	2007-05-20 21:26:00	2Gb. Can't remember if the startup amount was always showing that. STOP: 0x0000009C No drivers Nope. But I have put mu X300 in and the error hasn't recurred. I googled it to death. In a few forums there are people saying they got it after PSU problems. Causes varied hugely, CPU, RAM, motherboard, graphics, heat, PSU.	pctek (84)
551403	2007-05-20 21:36:00	How long does FEAR run for before crashing? It definately looks to be GFX related... (I take it that you can click the display tab of DXDiag with the x300?) The amount of installed RAM is fine, the tested RAM is 1MB less than installed, wait up... now that I think about it, I have that too... I have never had a problem with it. So that is fine. I think it is likely that the PSU has damaged the card, possibly with a power spike on the rail that damaged the 3D side of the card...	The_End_Of_Reality (334)
551404	2007-05-20 23:55:00	How long does FEAR run for before crashing? It definately looks to be GFX related... (I take it that you can click the display tab of DXDiag with the x300?) The amount of installed RAM is fine, the tested RAM is 1MB less than installed, wait up... now that I think about it, I have that too... I have never had a problem with it. So that is fine. I think it is likely that the PSU has damaged the card, possibly with a power spike on the rail that damaged the 3D side of the card... It didn't go that long at all. Crashed on a fight scene. The second time I loaded it up and went into the settings and was changing Shaders and it crashed then. Oh? Why does it do that, I can't remember seeing that with RAM before....then again I don't exactly watch that bit, its usually too quick. Yeah I've played FEAR thismorning with the X300, cranked the settings up to where it started to give me warnings about performance but no BSOD since. Messed about with the cubes in DXDiag, ran 3DMark, various of its tests. Zilch. &&^%$ SILverstone PSU!!!!	pctek (84)
551405	2007-05-21 00:17:00	Woe. My PC has started doing this BSOD. I wonder if my dodgy PSU I replaced has caused some damage. I ran memtest, it reported no problems. Interestingly though, on boot when it reports the memory it shows: Tested: 2096128K, installed 2097152k. But memtest was ok. PC no different with either of its 2 pieces of ram in. It BSODed during FEAR. It BSODed when I was in DXDiag, just clicked Display tab. BSODed when I was part way into starting the latest ATI driver upgrade, its setup part. Put my X300 in now (sob), ran FEAR again (lame settings admittedly) and no crashes yet. Not entirely convinced its the card yet though.. Any second opinions? CPU is not overclocked and has never been. Its a AMD x2 5000+. New. Ram is 2 x 1Gb Kington DDR2-667. New. Graphics - the suspected one: X1900XTX, 14 months old. Hi PCtek, what psu is that, the 1900xtx are beasts for power! edit...didnt see silverstone psu, ok then, only happens with that card......?! Suppose the card could be fried, or the psu amperage on the 12v+ not enough, what model psu?	SolMiester (139)
551406	2007-05-21 00:22:00	I am not sure why it does that, if I run Memtest it shows the amount of RAM being tested is lower (by only 1MB or so...) than the actual RAM installed, I am not sure why, possibly due to loading the BIOS into RAM? (I have no idea just a guess)	The_End_Of_Reality (334)
551407	2007-05-21 02:19:00	yeah what's the replacement psu? does it have sufficient grunt. if the graphics card has 2 power connectors are they on the same rail or seperate ones? I read a review of my 600W silverstone where they had fixed a power problem by using a molex -> pci-e adaptor to spread the graphics load over 2 rails because the manufacturer had stupidly put them all on one rail and it couldn't take the load. ( dual ATI cards in crossfire mode )	dugimodo (138)
551408	2007-05-21 04:17:00	Enermax 620W Liberty Modular Power Supply Model: ELT620AWT. 12v info only: +12V1 0.5A/22A, +12V2 0.5A/22A, 432W( 36A ) Its not this PSU, its been in a while now. The previous Silverstone OP650 would cause the PC to shut down at random. I sent it back and got this instead. I previously had an old Enermax 485W which gave no problems.	pctek (84)
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