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| Thread ID: 78928 | 2007-05-02 22:03:00 | Ongoing issues | av4tarnz (5829) | Press F1 |
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| 546419 | 2007-05-02 22:03:00 | I've posted on these forums before about having issues with Half Life 2 regularly crashing, now I've exhausted the help I was getting from Steam Support. In the last email I recieved from them they said it may be any of the following: - CPU and/or GPU overheating - Missmatched/bad ram - IRQ conflicts - Insufficient power supply - Incompatible Motherboard Bios - Sound Card Conflicts I'm suspecting that it has something to do with the ram as I had extra ram installed into my branded pre-built package at the time of purchase. What tests can I do to see if the ram is functioning correctly? |
av4tarnz (5829) | ||
| 546420 | 2007-05-02 22:08:00 | Run memtest. Or take out the suspect ram and try the game again. Game developers always blame the hardware. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 546421 | 2007-05-02 23:51:00 | I've looked up memtest, I'm assuming I want the Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO one as I don't have a floppy disk drive. The computer will automatically detect that the ram is not there right? If I go that way. I bet that's a stupid question. |
av4tarnz (5829) | ||
| 546422 | 2007-05-03 00:06:00 | No question is stupid when you need the answer. Yes your machine will automatically detect how much RAM is installed at boot-up, and yes download the iso, burn it to CD, set your bios to boot from CD before HDD, put CD in drive, reboot, run memtest through a couple of times ( it won't stop by itself ) if nothing fails switch to the extended tests ( cant remember what button that is ) and run it through a few more times. The only time I've had faulty RAM it managed to pass on the 6 normal tests but failed part way through the first extended one. If you do get errors test your RAM one chip at a time to find the culprit and if you find it doesn't fail when tested individually then it's likely the new RAM has a compatability problem with the old. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 546423 | 2007-05-04 07:57:00 | Thanks for your help dugimodo I've run the standard Memtest a couple of times and it's giving a pass result, do you recall how to do the extended test that you mentioned? I've searched the PressF1 forum, but haven't found anything. Haven't found anything on the memtest.org site yet either. |
av4tarnz (5829) | ||
| 546424 | 2007-05-04 08:24:00 | Did you do a search on HL2 forums? I found: Both of those errors are a VERY common occourance with HL2, and happen to all machines close to the end of the "loading" stage (one or two blocks from the end). It's a known bug in the game (check for yourself @ steampowered.com forums) and will require a patch to fix. Try setting -autoconfigure in the launch options. Try closing steam and delete clientregistery.blob and then starting steam backup. Save the savegames folder to another location and delete the hl2 folder and let there be another 1 created from the GCF's I realised that if I del file ..\valve\steamApps\myUser\counter-strike source\bin\vidcfg.bin then I could play again. Etc........... Steam is crap. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 546425 | 2007-05-04 09:05:00 | Thanks for that pctek I did try searching the Steam forums, but I quickly got fed up of reading unhelpful posts of people just moaning about Steam, although I completely agree that it is crap. I am looking forward to the next episode being released, fingers crossed I might have a computer that will run without problems by then :rolleyes: |
av4tarnz (5829) | ||
| 546426 | 2007-05-06 06:00:00 | On the General tab on Control Panel>System, it displays the correct amount if ram installed, does this mean that it is 100% functioning correctly? Also, when I installed DirectX 9c I wasn't prompted to restart. That isn't right, is it? |
av4tarnz (5829) | ||
| 546427 | 2007-05-06 06:41:00 | On the General tab on Control Panel>System, it displays the correct amount if ram installed, does this mean that it is 100% functioning correctly? Also, when I installed DirectX 9c I wasn't prompted to restart. That isn't right, is it? NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT! even Memtest is not guaranteed to pick up memory errors, but it is a very high chance that it will, the only real way to test the RAM is with Memtest. No, I just installed DX9 and I wasn't told too... but you can restart if you wish... will make no difference IMO |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 546428 | 2007-05-06 06:52:00 | Thanks for that end of reality I've run dxdiag and it says that it DirectX 9c is installed, I just thought is was a bit unusal not being required to restart to complete installing DirectX. Jus thought I'd eliminate anything i thought unusal. Can anyone enlighten me on Memtests extended test that dugimodo mentioned in an earlier post to this thread? |
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