PDXcraterman
Chieftain
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- Jan 5, 2006
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Please understand this. I am NOT promoting or trying to sell anything here.
I could play v1.52 for approx 45 min - 1 hour before my system would reboot, After reboot I would get a MS crash report and this is what it came back as...
*Problem description*
The error was caused by a problem in your computer's random access
memory (RAM). Microsoft is unable to determine if this problem was
caused by a hardware or software issue, although this type of problem is
usually caused by hardware.
*Recommendation*
Microsoft recommends that you download and run the Windows Memory
Diagnostic tool on your computer to find out if this is a hardware or
software problem. On most computers, you can download the diagnostic,
read the documentation, run the test, and complete the test in less than
30 minutes.
I did this and all my RAM came out with no errors. This happened three days in a row. A few nights back I down loaded MemTest & RamBooster (free shareware) from www.snapfiles.com . Ran the MemTest overnight per instructions and had no bad RAM found. Then I ran RamBoost and played Civ IV for almost two hours with cursing, kicking or screaming at the comp because of a crash.
I have not been able to do a longer test then the first night but this does look promising if you have this problem.
I hope this works for other people.......
Here is what I run on......
AMD Athlon (TM) XP 1800+
1.53 GHz
512 Ram
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT card w/128 MB DDR3 AGP8x
I could play v1.52 for approx 45 min - 1 hour before my system would reboot, After reboot I would get a MS crash report and this is what it came back as...
*Problem description*
The error was caused by a problem in your computer's random access
memory (RAM). Microsoft is unable to determine if this problem was
caused by a hardware or software issue, although this type of problem is
usually caused by hardware.
*Recommendation*
Microsoft recommends that you download and run the Windows Memory
Diagnostic tool on your computer to find out if this is a hardware or
software problem. On most computers, you can download the diagnostic,
read the documentation, run the test, and complete the test in less than
30 minutes.
I did this and all my RAM came out with no errors. This happened three days in a row. A few nights back I down loaded MemTest & RamBooster (free shareware) from www.snapfiles.com . Ran the MemTest overnight per instructions and had no bad RAM found. Then I ran RamBoost and played Civ IV for almost two hours with cursing, kicking or screaming at the comp because of a crash.
I have not been able to do a longer test then the first night but this does look promising if you have this problem.
I hope this works for other people.......
Here is what I run on......
AMD Athlon (TM) XP 1800+
1.53 GHz
512 Ram
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT card w/128 MB DDR3 AGP8x