gsteffens
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Well first off, please continue to bear with me if anything I post is a bit off or weird as I'm still learning computers.
I will start with my specs as best as I can describe them.
Motherboard: Abit IP35E
Ram: 2X 1GB Crucial Tracer Ballistix Ram
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 160 GB 7200 RPM SATA
CPU: Q6600 Intel
GPU: MSI 8800GTS G92 512 MB (awesome card IMO)
I had installed everything and it was running solid a few months at the end of summer. Then I had an issue with it crashing after the "abit" screen as it came to the windows loading screen (one with the dotted line going across). I did a complete re install of everything. Until recently it was working awesome again.
Now the crash issue is a little different. It will sometimes boot up completely. Then after an unknown (different each time) amount of time, it will momentarily, like 1/2 a second, flash a detailed blue screen error (no chance I can read it) and then reboot. Other times, it will get as far as the windows loading screen (the one with the dotted line going across) and after that completes, it will reboot.
A friend of mine had me looking at the "minidump" files while it was on to see how many there were, and there were quite a few. I however have not been able to figure out how to actually open, read, and interperet them. Once I had found them, it was a matter of minutes and it momentarily blue screened and rebooted again. He has one idea of it may have a bad stick of RAM.
I'm now putting this message up on my laptop again as I turned my gamer completely off for the time being.
As a side note, I had Battlefield 2 loaded and my sister had the Sims 2 and Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 loaded. I also just installed Grand Theft Auto 4. With the exception of needing a bit more ram and GPU space to run on max settings, the game worked flawlessly on medium settings, which was awesome as it is.
Thanks all in advance.
I will start with my specs as best as I can describe them.
Motherboard: Abit IP35E
Ram: 2X 1GB Crucial Tracer Ballistix Ram
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 160 GB 7200 RPM SATA
CPU: Q6600 Intel
GPU: MSI 8800GTS G92 512 MB (awesome card IMO)
I had installed everything and it was running solid a few months at the end of summer. Then I had an issue with it crashing after the "abit" screen as it came to the windows loading screen (one with the dotted line going across). I did a complete re install of everything. Until recently it was working awesome again.
Now the crash issue is a little different. It will sometimes boot up completely. Then after an unknown (different each time) amount of time, it will momentarily, like 1/2 a second, flash a detailed blue screen error (no chance I can read it) and then reboot. Other times, it will get as far as the windows loading screen (the one with the dotted line going across) and after that completes, it will reboot.
A friend of mine had me looking at the "minidump" files while it was on to see how many there were, and there were quite a few. I however have not been able to figure out how to actually open, read, and interperet them. Once I had found them, it was a matter of minutes and it momentarily blue screened and rebooted again. He has one idea of it may have a bad stick of RAM.
I'm now putting this message up on my laptop again as I turned my gamer completely off for the time being.
As a side note, I had Battlefield 2 loaded and my sister had the Sims 2 and Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 loaded. I also just installed Grand Theft Auto 4. With the exception of needing a bit more ram and GPU space to run on max settings, the game worked flawlessly on medium settings, which was awesome as it is.
Thanks all in advance.