I booted up my newish rig (its been working fine for a month or so) earlier and was given a blue screen while it was loading Windows, which told me that it was performing a physical memory dump. Firstly, what does this mean? Is it a problem? It was up for a few seconds, then shut itself down. It had posted fine. I have turned it off and back on a few times since and it has not happened again, so is it anything to worry about? Is there anything I can do if it does happen again?
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This can usually happen because of the last thing you have installed uninstall it.
Absolute, total and utter rot.
What you've just seen is whats known as a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death)
There are many different causes of BSODs, so first you need to find out what the BSOD actually was.
First, go into the System properties in Control Panel- Go to the advanced tab, & find the Startup and Recovery section, and press the settings button. In here, remove the checkmark from the 'Automatically Restart on System Failure' setting- What this does is keep any BSOD that appears on the screen until the computer is manually restarted. (Not actually useful ATM, but helpful if the problem occurs again- There will be an error code in the format of STOP 0x0000000 on the BSOD; This tells you what the problem actually was)
Next, to find out what the BSOD you just had was, right-click on the My Computer icon on your desktop, & choose manage. Go into the event viewer section, and find the error, which should have been logged at the time of the problem (There may be others, some are important, others aren't) Post the info from the error's properties, and we'll be able to tell what it actually is
FWIW, the most common causes of BSODs are dogy drivers & bad RAM.
-Leezer-
Well I cant be sure as there are a few errors on there , but I assume that it was this one. It is at the right time and seems to be the right thing!
The previous system shutdown at 20:13:31 on 02/09/2007 was unexpected.
- System
- Provider
[ Name] EventLog
- EventID 6008
[ Qualifiers] 32768
Level 2
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2007-09-02T19:15:09.000Z
EventRecordID 12105
Channel System
Computer Mark-PC
Security
- EventData
20:13:31
02/09/2007
9692
D70709000000020014000D001F00F602D70709000000020013000D001F00F6023C0000003C0000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000951C0000
---------------If it is not that one then I assume it is this one. The others all have explanations which I know were not this problem.
System
- Provider
[ Name] atikmdag
- EventID 43033
[ Qualifiers] 49152
Level 2
Task 42
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2007-09-02T18:03:53.091Z
EventRecordID 12085
Channel System
Computer Mark-PC
Security
- EventData
00000000010000002A00000019A800C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
EDIT: Here are my specs, thought they may be useful.
C2D E4500 @stock
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
OCUK X1950PRO 256mb
2x1gb Crucial Ballistix PC5300 RAM
Seagate barracude 7200.10 320gb HDD
Corsair HX520PSU
Windows Vista Home Premium
The previous system shutdown at 20:13:31 on 02/09/2007 was unexpected.
- System
- Provider
[ Name] EventLog
- EventID 6008
[ Qualifiers] 32768
Level 2
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2007-09-02T19:15:09.000Z
EventRecordID 12105
Channel System
Computer Mark-PC
Security
- EventData
20:13:31
02/09/2007
9692
D70709000000020014000D001F00F602D70709000000020013000D001F00F6023C0000003C0000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000951C0000
---------------If it is not that one then I assume it is this one. The others all have explanations which I know were not this problem.
System
- Provider
[ Name] atikmdag
- EventID 43033
[ Qualifiers] 49152
Level 2
Task 42
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2007-09-02T18:03:53.091Z
EventRecordID 12085
Channel System
Computer Mark-PC
Security
- EventData
00000000010000002A00000019A800C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
EDIT: Here are my specs, thought they may be useful.
C2D E4500 @stock
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
OCUK X1950PRO 256mb
2x1gb Crucial Ballistix PC5300 RAM
Seagate barracude 7200.10 320gb HDD
Corsair HX520PSU
Windows Vista Home Premium
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Made sure the ram voltage is set to 2.2 volts ? btw 1950 pro's do have issues when i had one i had no end of problems with black screens crashes random reboots guys on the sapphire forums said it was because my power supply same as yours wasn't a true 40a on the 12v rail and this card needs 28a.
I wouldn't worry too much just go over everything in bios making sure ram is set up correct voltage
and timings could simply be anything at this point.
I'd point finger at the 1950 pro it's so power hungry.
I wouldn't worry too much just go over everything in bios making sure ram is set up correct voltage
and timings could simply be anything at this point.
I'd point finger at the 1950 pro it's so power hungry.
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It's the second one thats of use to us
The first one is just Windows complaining that it crashed last time around.
Anyway, its the ATI drivers/ the card itself which caused the crash. I'd disagree- Your PSU should be absolutely fine for running an X1950Pro.
Try updating your graphics drivers to the latest from ATI, other than that there's nothing too much you can do, unless the crashes become more frequent, in which case you may have a bigger problem.
-Leezer-
The first one is just Windows complaining that it crashed last time around.
Anyway, its the ATI drivers/ the card itself which caused the crash. I'd disagree- Your PSU should be absolutely fine for running an X1950Pro.
Try updating your graphics drivers to the latest from ATI, other than that there's nothing too much you can do, unless the crashes become more frequent, in which case you may have a bigger problem.
-Leezer-
Fair enough, Ive upgraded all the drivers and havent had any problems. The GPU is only a stop-gap until I go DX10 at christmas or early next year anyway, and only cost £70 so if its that Im not too bothered. Thanks for the help!