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Powerless
| | Posted on Saturday, December 4, 2004 - 6:48 pm: | |
Athlon XP 2000
1Gig DDR Ram
Radeon 9800 Pro 128ram
KT4V Motherboard
450 Watt power supply
SB Live Plat
i have had the problem for some time now and it's driving me nuts. anyone have any idea what would cause a power loss during loading? it always happens with Call of Duty single player and sometimes while multiplayer maps are loading, sometimes when playing Tribes Vengeance, and now that i'm near the end of Half-Life 2 it does it while at one loading screen (has not happened until this one load point and i can't get past it without a crash). Although usually just happens while games are loading, other applications have caused it. I thought it was a faulty power supply, but i have since installed a new power supply in and it's still doing it. any ideas? |
Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 5, 2004 - 9:06 am: | |
If you are running XP, disable the auto restart feature when errors occur in control panel>system>advanced>startup and recovery...
instead of a reboot you will get a blue screen with the error message and hopefully its just software related..but 9 out of 10 times it's memory related. |
Powerless
| | Posted on Sunday, December 5, 2004 - 5:02 pm: | |
I tried that and it's still doing it =( how do i figure out what memory is damaged? Also, would it typically be the main RAM, RAM on my video card, or memory somewhere else?
thanks for the help |
Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 5, 2004 - 6:30 pm: | |
Normally shutdowns/reboots are associated with bluescreens and an error code if it is main memory or some other conflict/error with the system. Sounds like you are experiencing some other type of hardware failure such as mainboard or cpu. |
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