Game's crashin'
DrBeast:
Heh...talk about getting a new RAM in the nick of time!
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: rainbow on 2006 May 03, 13:12:31
The idea then occurred to me that maybe it wasn't the NEW stick, but the OLD one! I felt a bit better about that since it wasn't the one I just paid $40 for, so I gave it a shot. I pulled the old ram out and put the new one in its place, and voila, Windows loaded right up without a complaint! I was so relieved! Now I have to replace that stick because even though I've not had the blue screens and other errors, my system runs slow when I have several programs open which I use to do my work. But at least I know what the problem was now.
While it's possible your old stick may have gone bad, it could also be a RAM timing issue.
See this thread here.
RainbowTigress:
Thanks for the link. I'll have to do some reading on this. But I'm thinking it still may be a bad stick since I still had trouble when I took out the first stick and still had trouble with just the other one by itself. That's what lead me to believe it wasn't a RAM issue after all at first. Interestingly, when I removed the first stick, my graphics went all screwy. It took me down to 640x480 at 4 bit color! I couldn't change it, but I got it fixed after rebooting a few times and messing with the drivers. But I know the graphics ran at higher settings before on 512 MB, so I didn't know what was causing that. I looked up the specs for the RAM I just bought, and it's CL2.5. I am not sure what the older one is, or how to adjust it. I did show it to my bro-in-law, though, who built the PC, and he said it would be compatible with what was already in there. It ran fine for a while before the problems started showing up.
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