Added more RAM and now games crash. [tiger woods 2004] [crucial ram]
Q: I had 2×256mb Crucial PC2100 ram in my system. I added a 512 to bring my total to 1024. Now when I play Tiger Woods 2004 game crashes to the desktop. I havent tried a different game, because I started to random errors with other apps such as Office and Explorer. When I first installed the ram and started the game I let it run, came back to a BSOD with physical mem dump. NEVER had a sense that I started with crucial ram. I have updated video drivers, and flashed my BIOS, and removed rinstalled the game and nothing has helped. The only problem is resolved to remove the 512 stick. I noticed after I ordered the ram while doing some new shoping to eggs crucial Reverse ram. I got my new ram is single sided and appears my old ram is double sided. Could this be the problem? I emailed Crucial yesterday and havnt heard back yet. (Check ACANT personal email from work). I really want this ram but fear something greater use could be wrong. I have a Soyo Dragon K7v a XP1800 + CPU + adnd.
Best Answer: Increase the RAM voltage by 0.1V to 0.2V in your BIOS. Some PC3200 memory is 2.5 volts, 2.6V and some are 2.7V. If you have an OEM computer like Dell or HP it is impossible to change voltages, you will have to buy memory that is certified for the computer. http://www.crucial.com/ provides memory for OEM computers.
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Ok. Checked it out. With the 512 stick in, the gam runs fine. Left it in bank 0 and added just one of my 256 sticks checking to see if it may be the all 3 banks full issue and the game started acting screwy again. So what next? Thanx again for ya'lls help.
I only had 2 banks full. So what i currently have is the double sided 256 stick and the single sided 512 stick and i am still having the issue. I dont have all 3 banks full.
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Ok. Checked it out. With the 512 stick in, the gam runs fine. Left it in bank 0 and added just one of my 256 sticks checking to see if it may be the all 3 banks full issue and the game started acting screwy again. So what next? Thanx again for ya'lls help.
Sounds like you can't use all 3 banks. That's not an uncommon problem. My MSI KT3 Ultra2 doesn't like 3 banks being used either… even if they're completely identical in every way. Just bad engineering.
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Re:The Soyo Dragon can not use 3 sticks of ram. I ran across the same problem when trying to use 3x 256. When the board first came out the review sites stated the mobo was flakey with all dimm slots populated.
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Re:Ok. Checked it out. With the 512 stick in, the gam runs fine. Left it in bank 0 and added just one of my 256 sticks checking to see if it may be the all 3 banks full issue and the game started acting screwy again. So what next? Thanx again for ya'lls help.
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Re:I am running Win XP Pro. I will try the ram by its self and see what happens. But if it works by its self, how can i determine if its my board or if its the single sided, double sided issue?
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Re:Yes, single sided density and double sided density ram could be the problem. Or it could be the memory itself is bad. Or it could be your motherboard becomes unstable when all 3 banks are used.
First, i would check the memory itself… if it's just fine, and works by itself, then it's not the memory. I've seen boards that have a problem with single sided density, but that incompatibility problem will arise almost immediately. Either the ram won't be recognize, or you'll be getting errors when doing a memtest, or when trying to boot into Windows.
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Re:Were you aware that 512MB of ram is the max that you can use with any version of Windows 98? Of course, just ignore this post if you have WinXP!
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Re:guess i'll give that a try. thats the one thing i havnt tried yet. That will at least tell me if its a compatability issue with the other ram. Thanx.
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Re:try the 512 by itself and see if you still have problems
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