Laloosh Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Here are my system specs: Intel Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz Intel Rexburg D845GRG Motherboard Intel Brookdale-G i845G Chipset 512 MB RAM GeForce FX 5500 (256 MB) Creative SB Live! Sound Card Got a new video card (EVGA GeForce FX-5500) to replace my GeForce 2, solely for the purpose of playing MVP (which is why I didn't go all out). But the game was crashing almost every time I played. I got the DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error several times and also the "infinite loop" message once or twice. So I ran Driver Cleaner Pro to get all the nooks and crannies, and uninstalled and reinstalled my video card drivers (the newest piece of hardware I've added). Then I got a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error. Ran memtest86 on my 2x256MB RAM and got several errors (all on Test 7). Last night I took one RAM module out and got 42 passes, 0 errors. This morning I tried the other module and got 23 passes, 0 errors (last time I checked). Here are the possible scenarios I could think of: 1) The memory slot I haven't tested yet is bad 2) Is it possible I didn't have one of the modules seated all the way in the slot (originally), which was giving the error? Or would the PC not even recognize that module if that were the case (it was confirming 512MB of RAM)? 3) One module is 2100 while the other is 2700. Is it possbile they just don't mix together well? I was under the impression that the 2700 module would "slow down" to match the 2100. I guess I'll find out tonight when I test both modules in the second memory slot. But there's also the possibility that it's still a driver issue (with the video card, I would imagine). Anybody have any thoughts/opinions/advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playball335 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 When installing memory the speeds need to match or bad things (as you've noticed) can and will happen. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laloosh Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 Are you sure? From what I've heard it doesn't matter, as the faster RAM will "slow down" to match the motherboard's peak speed. And I've determined it isn't even a memory issue, anyway. It's a driver problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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