Hi, I just bought some new RAM for my ancient PC, I upgraded from a single 512MB stick to two of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-1GB-...5682910&sr=1-8
I got them in the post and installed them without problems. My motherboard manual says it should all work automatically, no need to fiddle with jumpers and things so I just stuck them in. The memory check at startup counts up to 2GB fine, windows boots fine and so far I've had no problems at all until I try to run a game.
Nothing spectacular, the games just crash to desktop with no error message coming up, doesn't seem to be any specific event that triggers it. Also it's happening with multiple games running in different engines and I've never had any stability problems before today so it's 99.99% likely to be a problem with the new memory. All crashes so far have happened within 15-20 minutes of running the game.
There was actually one crash to desktop that did have an error message associated with it, I was connecting to a server in Call of Duty Source, hadn't got into the server when it crashed. The error message was:
The instruction at "0x14417F72" referenced memory at "0x0de22c34" The memory could not be "read"
That's the situation at the moment. Please help me, the games are running so much more smoothly now, until they crash that is...
My system specs copied and pasted from everest:
3D Accelerator: ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP, 1833 MHz (11 x 167) 2500+
Motherboard Name: Shuttle FN41 v1/v2 (1 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN, IEEE-1394)
RAM: DIMM1: 128X64K-33B 1GB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
DIMM2: 128X64K-33B 1GB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
Power supply: 200W
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-1GB-...5682910&sr=1-8
I got them in the post and installed them without problems. My motherboard manual says it should all work automatically, no need to fiddle with jumpers and things so I just stuck them in. The memory check at startup counts up to 2GB fine, windows boots fine and so far I've had no problems at all until I try to run a game.
Nothing spectacular, the games just crash to desktop with no error message coming up, doesn't seem to be any specific event that triggers it. Also it's happening with multiple games running in different engines and I've never had any stability problems before today so it's 99.99% likely to be a problem with the new memory. All crashes so far have happened within 15-20 minutes of running the game.
There was actually one crash to desktop that did have an error message associated with it, I was connecting to a server in Call of Duty Source, hadn't got into the server when it crashed. The error message was:
The instruction at "0x14417F72" referenced memory at "0x0de22c34" The memory could not be "read"
That's the situation at the moment. Please help me, the games are running so much more smoothly now, until they crash that is...
My system specs copied and pasted from everest:
3D Accelerator: ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP, 1833 MHz (11 x 167) 2500+
Motherboard Name: Shuttle FN41 v1/v2 (1 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN, IEEE-1394)
RAM: DIMM1: 128X64K-33B 1GB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
DIMM2: 128X64K-33B 1GB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
Power supply: 200W
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