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09-19-08, 11:17 AM | #1 |
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Bad Ram = Ctd
Thought I'd post this here but did the same thing in SH4 AND il2 1946 and GTR2.
I first swapped out vid card 7800 gt 512 mb to backup 7600gs 512mb. Still CTD when things got busy. Friend brought over 4 1gb ddr sticks and no ctd. Now it's just a matter of trial and error which one or more are bad. I'm posting this so noboby else goes thru this hair pulling experience. Just because I had 4 gigs of ram running dual channel don't mean squat if one or more sticks are bad. When I booted up or ran BELARC or looked in system it showed 4 gigs. I guess when running game and lots of things are happening graphically a stick blows a fuse or sumpthin. :p I recently replaced all 4 when I was haveing this problem with GWX 2.1. I posted this long winded thread so it might save someone else this headache. Btw I want to again thank Privateer for past (2.1) and present help trouble shooting this problem. This just proves " If it can go wrong it will at the worst possible time " ( IN THE MIDDLE OF A FECKIN CONVOY ATTACK ) :rotfl: |
09-19-08, 11:21 AM | #2 |
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wow... that sounds like a helluva thing to chase down.
you followed that rabbit deep into the hole thanks for the heads up
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09-20-08, 08:11 PM | #3 |
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I replaced a motherboard and almost bought a new video card for what turned out to be one bad stick of RAM.
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09-21-08, 06:11 AM | #4 |
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Good to keep in mind for checking, thanks
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09-21-08, 08:30 AM | #5 |
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I had a similar problem with 4 gig dual channel, I used this http://www.memtest86.com/download.html and found a problem with 1 stick. Took me ages track the problem down, I was just getting random BSOD's all the time.
Replaced the faulty stick and no problems since. |
09-21-08, 12:05 PM | #6 |
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I had that problem with another pc, sometimes is caused by the timings in the bios setup, i fixed the ctd (blue screens?) changing the memory clock to other values in the bios setup.
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09-21-08, 04:45 PM | #7 |
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I guess that's the downside of having that much RAM, .. more chance of a tiny fault that ruins the rest of it. I know that aggravation of testing memory banks. Last time I've spend a whole week testing different sticks in different combinations in different bank positions. As it turned out it was the CPU or mainboard that got fried.
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