Slam'n Systems
Veteran Techist Member
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Hello all,
Haven't been around in a long time, I kind of moved away from being involved into the tech-forums and went elsewhere getting involved in cars and such.
I have been having this problem for a long time which is as follows...
Randomly, my computer will lock up on me, normally when playing video's or games and will come to the BSOD. I was totally lost as to what it could be, I kind of noticed it after installing a new video card so I tried various other video cards and the same thing happened. So a friend of mine told me it was probably my memory by how it locks up and such; one of my memory sticks must be bad. So today since I had time, I decided to take 1 stick out..try it, still locked up. Then I took this cheap stick out, like a no-name brand and then walah, video after video played..constantly having various things up (AIM, IE, Music..etc..this would also cause it to lock up) and it worked great for hours. Then all of a sudden I decide, ok, lets go play some America's Army which I haven't played in many months because of this problem. I get into the game, its loading and boom .. BSOD. The only memory stick I left in is my Corsair 512MB. I am so lost what it could be.
Please help and its good to be back; sadly, this isn't the way I wanted to come back though
Haven't been around in a long time, I kind of moved away from being involved into the tech-forums and went elsewhere getting involved in cars and such.
I have been having this problem for a long time which is as follows...
Randomly, my computer will lock up on me, normally when playing video's or games and will come to the BSOD. I was totally lost as to what it could be, I kind of noticed it after installing a new video card so I tried various other video cards and the same thing happened. So a friend of mine told me it was probably my memory by how it locks up and such; one of my memory sticks must be bad. So today since I had time, I decided to take 1 stick out..try it, still locked up. Then I took this cheap stick out, like a no-name brand and then walah, video after video played..constantly having various things up (AIM, IE, Music..etc..this would also cause it to lock up) and it worked great for hours. Then all of a sudden I decide, ok, lets go play some America's Army which I haven't played in many months because of this problem. I get into the game, its loading and boom .. BSOD. The only memory stick I left in is my Corsair 512MB. I am so lost what it could be.
Please help and its good to be back; sadly, this isn't the way I wanted to come back though