Ram Issue

[johnboy27]

Originally posted by Chewie UK+6 May 2004 - 19:55--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Chewie UK @ 6 May 2004 - 19:55)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by johnboy27@6 May 2004 - 18:41
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@5 May 2004 - 10:11
I got a DDR 512 MB ram today ever since I have upgraded it from my 256 MB DDR ..Colin Macrae 3 either shuts down.. or hard boots my sys..

He has only been having this problem since the ram upgrade.It makes sense to give the ram a test to see if it is the problem.I bought a brand new stick of infineon for a coworkers computer when I built it for him and it was bad.The computer would run fine,installed windows on it with the bad ram(worked perfect) but under "some circumstances" it would crash.Bad ram doesn&#39;t really mean that it isn&#39;t going to run at all,it may just mean it won&#39;t run right all the time.

Bad RAM very rarely goes bad throughout but maybe only a chip, part of a chip or even just a solder point has deteriorated. It&#39;s a question of when the bad area is used - in a high area Windows will seem fine but when pushed that bad part will affect whatever is trying to use it. [/b][/quote]
Yeah,that&#39;s what I was trying to get at.Thanks.

[gd3110]

thanks guys
is there a software thru which I can test my RAM .. I will try to reinstall the game over the weekend and would let you know if it resolves the issue

Actually i did not keep my old stick I traded it so that option is ruled out

[tesco]

Originally posted by gd3110@6 May 2004 - 18:24
thanks guys
is there a software thru which I can test my RAM .. I will try to reinstall the game over the weekend and would let you know if it resolves the issue

Actually i did not keep my old stick I traded it so that option is ruled out

memtest86 is what chewieuk always recomends so i guess its good