Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Steve on February 22, 2004, 05:10:57 PM
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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TY guys.. but you know how much of a pain that is!! *whine*
Guess I've got something to do tomorrow night.
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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:)
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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
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Great idea! I'll stop by Fry's tomorrow. Thanks!
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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. :cool:
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...
:confused:
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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.