Author Topic: Main board concern, need advice please (Read 437 times)

Steve · « **on:** February 22, 2004, 05:10:57 PM »

Recently, when adding a new stick of ram to my mainboard, I pressed it in too hard and caused a short on the board, detroying it in the process. I replaced the board w/ an albatron 865 PE pro.
Fired up the system and it works great w/ one exception. During gameplay I sometimes have my frame rate reduced to almost nil for a sec or two. I haven't run a spyware prog yet but will do so.

Here is my problem: When I switched boards, I didn't bother to load the chipsets for the new board. I decided to do so last night off the CD that came w/ the board. While doing so, I got a blue screen... at the bottom of the blue screen was: Dumping physical memory: 1

Where the "1" is was a counter... it counted up to 5 before I panicked and dumped the reset button.
After a chkdsk, the system seems fine.

Should I bother trying to load the chipsets?

"Dumping physical memory" sound scarey, what the heck is does that mean?

MY previous board was an 845 ultra by MSI.

Tarmac · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2004, 05:38:16 PM »

Did you reinstall windows when you switched boards?

My buddy had all kinds of windows issues when he switched boards from an A7V333 to an A7N8X. A reformat/reinstall fixed it.

Steve · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2004, 07:09:02 PM »

Tarmac, ty for input. I reloaded windows but could not/have not reformatted. At the time of the crash, had not backed up my financial software recently so a reformat would have been ... bad.

Edit: running XP Pro

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2004, 11:34:41 PM »

If it were mine, I would backup (includings AH and any other game "settings" folders), reformat, install XP ,SP1, mobo drivers, sound/video drivers, selected Widows updates, and then restore everything else.

DJ229 -AIR MAFIA

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2004, 11:47:54 PM »

Dumping the physical memory means its removing data from the RAM modules. This isn't harmful, but then again - resetting the computer is the way to go because Windows won't recover from an error like that until the system is rebooted since a lot of data may be removed from the RAM modules that Windows needs to run normally.

When you get a new board, its best to reformat (back up needed data first onto a CD or ZIP disk) and start from scratch.
-SW

Steve · « **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2004, 11:51:11 PM »

TY guys.. but you know how much of a pain that is!! *whine*

Guess I've got something to do tomorrow night.

humble · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2004, 05:08:32 PM »

Steve I usually cheat...

I prefer to grab a new HD and load up the operating system from scratch on the new HD keeping my old drive as a data drive. to me the $75 or so (just got a 80 gig drive for that last night) is offset with the possibility of losing something in the fuss...yup I've got a few "extra" drives floating around but now I've got one hell of a tivo setup on a spare box:)

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2004, 05:45:43 PM »

Yep,
certainly easiest backup. Makes for easy istallation of downloaded apps, Service Packs etc to the boot drive if they are stored on a slave drive. Also, makes for easy continuing backups meaning you will be more likely to do them. I back up to my second drive very frequently and then back up important stuff to CD every month or so.

DJ229 aka Dave

Steve · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2004, 08:18:44 PM »

Great idea! I'll stop by Fry's tomorrow. Thanks!

beet1e · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2004, 01:19:14 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Tarmac
My buddy had all kinds of windows issues when he switched boards from an A7V333 to an A7N8X. A reformat/reinstall fixed it.

Hehe, I have just changed Tomato's board - discarding the A7V333 and installing a A7N8X DLX! But it was a new install, installed the motherboard drivers etc. Not an ounce of trouble.

But funnily enough, the A7V333 she had replaced an earlier Asus board. When that substitution was made, there was no reformat or reinstall; Windows just detected a load of devices etc., and all was well...

Steve · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2004, 01:45:26 AM »

well would XP automatically detect the new chipsets? I do not remember any notifications from XP when I ran it w/ new board for first time.