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Hi,
I bought the following from here in Jan 09 and has been running perfectly at these specs - until now.
E8400 (O/C 4Ghz)
ASUS P5Q PRO
4Gb OCZ 1066
ATI HIS 4800
Basically it started a couple of weeks ago where I get the blue screen etc whilst playing a game, (and it's always a game, nothing else causes it) and upon reboot continue to get the same error screen.
I usually managed to fix this via repair console through trial and error (the right command etc) until I can eventually boot up, but after a while I was forced to format.
After doing so I tried a few FPSs/RTSs, and noticed that all animations moved staggered when viewed close up.
Its been suggested that it sounds like a memory problem. I dropped to 2Gb, kept the clock the same and tried again. Seemed a lot better. Not as smooth as I remember, but much better.
Now the latest turn of events - my WD500 ibook. I was downloading a file while in-game and I then I hear the disconnection bleep. I check it out. No external drive visible only a 'USB Device' in its place with exclamation mark thingy saying:
This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)
To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
When I rebooted, it started saying boot config is messed up etc. I have dual boot (other partition booted fine) so changed hard drives around in BIOS and tried to boot on same partition. Now comes up with NTLDR is missing.
No problem I thought, copied the file and booted fine. I still can't get on my external though and I really, REALLY, can't afford to lose all that data.
I will be trying the drive round a friends house this weekend, just to rule out its not the drive itself. But I'm pretty stumped regarding my problem. All I'm doing currently is fixing the crashes until the next one comes around and for lack of a better word, it's really beginning to **** me off.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks
I bought the following from here in Jan 09 and has been running perfectly at these specs - until now.
E8400 (O/C 4Ghz)
ASUS P5Q PRO
4Gb OCZ 1066
ATI HIS 4800
Basically it started a couple of weeks ago where I get the blue screen etc whilst playing a game, (and it's always a game, nothing else causes it) and upon reboot continue to get the same error screen.
I usually managed to fix this via repair console through trial and error (the right command etc) until I can eventually boot up, but after a while I was forced to format.
After doing so I tried a few FPSs/RTSs, and noticed that all animations moved staggered when viewed close up.
Its been suggested that it sounds like a memory problem. I dropped to 2Gb, kept the clock the same and tried again. Seemed a lot better. Not as smooth as I remember, but much better.
Now the latest turn of events - my WD500 ibook. I was downloading a file while in-game and I then I hear the disconnection bleep. I check it out. No external drive visible only a 'USB Device' in its place with exclamation mark thingy saying:
This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)
To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
When I rebooted, it started saying boot config is messed up etc. I have dual boot (other partition booted fine) so changed hard drives around in BIOS and tried to boot on same partition. Now comes up with NTLDR is missing.
No problem I thought, copied the file and booted fine. I still can't get on my external though and I really, REALLY, can't afford to lose all that data.
I will be trying the drive round a friends house this weekend, just to rule out its not the drive itself. But I'm pretty stumped regarding my problem. All I'm doing currently is fixing the crashes until the next one comes around and for lack of a better word, it's really beginning to **** me off.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks
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