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Sys specs?
Guessing I'd say not enough, bad or program(s) stealing RAM.
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AMD 3400+ 64bit
1gig DDRram
Geforce 6800 Ultra
This system has worked flawlessly for two years. I took it to a PC garage, hopefully they can sort it out.
From what I've gathered on other sites, it's a corrupt NTFS system. I hope my data on that drive can be restored. 32gb of unbacked up music being lost would be very horrible.
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What software changes had you made around the time this started happening? Any driver updates or similar?
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I reverted to the nVidia drivers I'd be using for a few months after new ones I installed failed to impress me, but this was a few days before the problem started. I'm waiting to hear back from PC technicians, hopefully the NTFS system on the one drive got corrupted and can be fixed without new hardware or formatting.
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I'm waiting to hear back from PC technicians, hopefully the NTFS system on the one drive got corrupted and can be fixed without new hardware or formatting.
You could try a repair with the windows CD, it'll replace all the system files and leave all your programs and files alone. I did that when I had problems after messing around with drivers and having a bsod every time I booted up. I couldn't even get into safe mode so I had no choice. :dry:
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It was a NTFS corruption on my Media drive. Technician managed to backup all my stuff and formatted it. Everything is working fine now. (So far)
Only cost the same as $7 :)
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It was a NTFS corruption on my Media drive. Technician managed to backup all my stuff and formatted it. Everything is working fine now. (So far)
Only cost the same as $7 :)
Only $7? Could you explain? I.e. a friend, 3rd world, etc.
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It cost about 100 rand which is about a third of the price of a new PC game or about 9 or so beers. So it's not exactly cheap, but not very expensive either...Plus the Rand/Dollar exchange rate is pretty shit.
It would have been about the same as 4 UK pounds.
While the blue screen/crashing problem is fixed, I'm still getting those random lock-ups, where the flickering light on my tower (hard drive access light?) will freeze and my system will hang. It will eventually snap out of it after about 20 seconds and hitting ctrl-alt-del a few times without having to restart or shutting down any programs, but it's annoying. Has only happened twice so far when it happened a lot of times before I got the problems sorted out.
Any ideas?
Sigh. Got another BSOD. a ...9c Machine Check Exception.
Microsoft tells me it's a hardware issue that could be caused by overheating. Everest sensor tells me my CPU is 48 Celcius. Is this too high, and possibly the cause of the problem?
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Everest sensor tells me my CPU is 48 Celcius. Is this too high, and possibly the cause of the problem?
Seems pretty normal I think for that CPU, I've had similar with stock cooling and they ran about the same temp.
If a blue screen is occuring on a regular basis and you have elimenated any possible problems that may be arising from software /drivers issues.
It could be caused by hardware incompatbility... which is baad m'kay. :ermm: Have you checked your mobo and ram are all compatible? What make are your hardrives?
Stuff like that you sometimes have to watch for, i'm unsure if you said this was home built system or one you got from somewhere else... but good luck anyway! :01: