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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Thursday, July 8, 2004 at 10:19 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mediocrateez
(1 messages posted)
Guys,
I can squash all your fears, although you're NOT going to want to hear it. This
IS a RAM issue, guaranteed. Looking on any of the Microsoft KB articles for any
of the stop error codes mentioned, it related to specific RAM address errors.
99% of the time, Windows is not utilizing all of the RAM in your systemfor 'daily'
activities. When certain programs are started (usually ones that require more than
256MB of RAM) these stop codes happen, and your computer will re-boot. This also
will give you a 0x0blah blah stop code.
The BEST way to find out which RAM chip is culprit is to run a 3rd party memory
test, or a high end benchmarking program that will STRESS test your RAM. Testing
with one RAM chip is preferable (and much faster)
Another thing to note- Many of the NVidia chipsets use Dual Channel for their
RAM (check on the mfgr's webiste or your owners manual). This can make it VERY tricky
to guage RAM problems, as they share responsibilities in RAM usage, *IF* you have
2 sticks of RAM in your system.
oh, btw... if you followed the recomendation to turn off auto reboot of your
system, be sure to write down the 0x stop code. then visit: http://support.microsoft.com/
to check on the stop codes.
On Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 8:06 pm, Ray wrote:
>Same issue here guys. Anyone find a fix? I just built a brand new AMD 64 3000+ Gigabyte
>GAkt8vt800 Pro MoBo with 800 FSB, 1 GB DDR400, Ultra 320 SCSI HDs, and a GeForce
>5200 FX AND Radeon 9800 Pro. It crashes with either graphix card installed after
>2-10 minutes in Black Hawk Down Team Sabre, and hangs the display so that I can't
>do a thing other than hard boot. Sometimes I get the blue screen error too, but
it
>doesnt provide any info on fixing the issue. I tried every single Catalyst driver
>from ATI, several drivers from nVidia, as well as re-imaging from scratch, and the
>machine still crashes any time I try and run a game. Anyone have a fix?
>
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