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i installed my new vid card and new ram recently and right away i started getting these strange blue screens of death on win xp pro first it was the drivers for my vid card(radion 9000 pro 128 meg card) but i fixed that by installing the new drivers becsaue the old ones were for soemthign else aperently. but now i need to know i installed a 512 meg chip on to my board with my old 256 meg chip still there is it becsaue of them not being compatibal or is it somethign else beccsuae iot awlasy does a phisical memory dump and says contact yourhardware vendor and such i really need some help please.
Are you sure that the memory type of the new ram is the same/compatible type on your pc right now? Go to Crucial and look up what kind of ram you have now.
Kevin.
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well they are both ddr-sdram 2700 chips but how do i find out what kind they are on crucial oh adn thanks for the quick responce.
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well it tells me to contact the hardwere vendor and at the bottom it says phicical memory dump and the says memory dump complete and i will write down the 000x00 thing later thats not it but i will post it up the next time i get it. the thing is i can run in safe mode jsut fine right now so far.
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Ah good stuff, then you can simply try deleting hardware until it boots fine. Sounds a lot like video driver issues.
Have you tried to default the CMOS?
Sorry memdumps are no value to me, unless I had a debugger connected to that machine.
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Well start by removing hardware from your machine, first I would start with any USB or firewire. Then delete the video card drivers, and then on to the other hardware. One by one delete and reinstall them.
BTW don't default the CMOS. I was just seeing if you did that.
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I'm not sure if I'm helping out at all but it seems to me I read in another post somewhere about memory problems like yours...The response was to make sure the bigger memory stick was in the first memory slot with the smaller one in the next slot....am I right Kevin?
I also had problems with using a 256 meg stick of pc100sdram stick because the biggest ram moduele my board would take was 128meg...fixed that...what I'm asking is if your board candle 512 meg stick? I downloaded free utility called fresh diagnose from freshdevices.com. it told me what I needed to know.
Hope that is a little help.
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This is a good method too, I would suggest to confirm both sticks are good, by only sticking one in at a time and making sure they boot fine. Then play around with mixing them up.
Some motherboards are very fussy about WHERE ram goes, others could care less.
Without knowing what mb he has it's impossible to confirm or deny this potential.
Without knowing the EXACT BSOD it's impossible to do anything more than make some guesses as to what the problem is.
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P4S533 is my asus mother board and i hacvn;t had the blue screen'o death for a while but things are still messing up so i will try to put the one 512 meg stick in the first slot and the 256 stick in the second
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