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BSOD on winXP pro. "OUT OF PHYSICAL MEMORY", I have a gig!

post #1 of 26
12/26/03 at 2:44am
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My 5680 keeps restarting randomly and a BSOD pops up for a split second and i glanced at it, all i read was "OUT OF PHYSICAL MEMORY", and then the screen goes black and it restarts. I was also running 3dmark03 when it restarted. It has plenty of ventilation

Why would it do this? I have a gig of ram
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post #2 of 26
12/26/03 at 2:57am
I don't know what that error message means. But I would guess, especially from your BF1942 posts that it is all related to heat. Could be a memory leak from a program that you have running (in your background?). If I were you, I would shut your system down for the night, let it cool off, and then assess the situation in the morning.

Once you have eliminated heat as a problem, then you can look at other culprits. But heat can causes weird stuff to happen, so your better off starting there.
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post #3 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:17am
when i have experienced this crashing (BSOD with a quick flash of a message) it is related to the ATI drivers. it says there was an 'error writing to a physical address 0x003A001' or something like that. i have seen this on my desktop computer and new 4760 notebook, both with ATI, involving a few games (most recently halo; last i checked there was some compatibility issue with radeon 9000 and 9200 being reported by ATI users)

this is what people, i think, are referring to when they complain about ATI drivers being consistently problematic. have u made any changes regarding the drivers lately? especially becuase you were running 3dmark03 at the time. i've had 4760 for 3 months now and the only time it ever crashes is playing halo, and i've done a lot of installing of programs, freewares, etc.

in the past, i've noticed some occasions where 'the most recent driver update for my video card' is not an improvement over a predecessor or the driver install gets messed or mixed up with an old install. that's why they have the uninstall utility now on the ATI website.
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post #4 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:22am
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I just updated to 7.95 Catalyst from Sager, but its been restarting before that, but with no message. This is the first time i saw a message with the restart.
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post #5 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:22am
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BTW i have a 9800XT in my desktop and this never happens,but I have about 10+ case fans in my desktop.
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post #6 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:23am
I think your memory problem is causing the excess heat.
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post #7 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:33am
maybe the heat sink contact with the video chip (if there is such on this computer i don't know) is not good so it overheats when running 3D?

on one computer i had problems with in the past that was having weird random and regular freezing ended up being a defective RAM. if theres 2 sodimms, maybe experiemnt swapping them out, one at a time?
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post #8 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:35am
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Where are they?

Also i have never heard anyonehaving this problem before on the 5680, so i cant be my heatsink, though there is a possibility.

hrm, has anyone noticed that if you move your finger up and down on the very right side of the 5680's touchpad, it scrolls? This is annoying....lol
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post #9 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:45am

Annoying?

I just got my 5680 on the 24th. Never noticed the scroll thing but I kinda like it 8)
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post #10 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:47am
hahhaha. dude - thats your 'scrollwheel'! its on purpose to do that. but its not annoying! its really convenenient for scrolling down pages.

so, hopefully my suggesition of changing out sodimms will not make u end up void your warranty or something unfortunate like that, so don't try it if you haven't done something like that before.
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post #11 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:47am
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i got mine the 23rd
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post #12 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:49am
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lol mule, Its kinda convenient, since I noticed you can do it sideways too.

The 5680 DOES have a physical scroller in between left and right click tho.
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post #13 of 26
12/26/03 at 3:59am
yes 4760 has it too (scroll buttons between the left and right click), but u have to apply more pressure to make it click; rather than the graceful sliding of the finger up and down & side to side (and since your finger is alread y right there on the touch pad.
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post #14 of 26
12/26/03 at 4:21am
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ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR..... Im on my desktop PC now, and I look over and the lappy is restarting. RIGHT FROM THE DESKTOP! NOTHING RUNNING!

This is stupid, impossible to use it without it happening. I did not see if a message came up as when i looked over it was booting windows up. I dont wanna have to carry around a Laptop Cooler everywhere I go, it adds more bulk. This is so stupid, they make a powerful laptop and cant even cool the damn thing? I cant imagine what the 8790 will be like.
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post #15 of 26
12/26/03 at 4:22am
Ive only had mine for a few days but have no problems with overheating..

I am sure you will be able to ressolve the issue..
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post #16 of 26
12/26/03 at 4:28am
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I hope so. I dont even trust it anymore, I cant do anything on it without it doing this.

Also, I noticed my battery went down to 47% for no reason after the reboot....and it was plugged in for hours.

Do i need to pull out my 233mhz dell laptop? Its more trustable than my sager.
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post #17 of 26
12/26/03 at 4:58am
Have you checked it with antivirus ? (not spyware detectors, but plain antivirus). Another possibility is that memory sticks arn't fit into slots properly (shifted during transportation)
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post #18 of 26
12/26/03 at 6:04am
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The BIOS detects 1023mb of ram on bootup, but i will check the RAM anyway(under the keyboard right?)

I have norton antivirus on my desktop but its definition subscription expires tomorrow, and I need to pay $20 to renew it, that would mean i need to pay $20 to renew it on my laptop too, thats $40, something I dont want to spend right now. I havent done much with it, only www.gamefaqs.com and this site have been visited and its only 2 days old.
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post #19 of 26
12/26/03 at 12:43pm
duh! i thought of something, try to do a system restore to an earlier point (access from start>help & support menu). that might fix it and you won't hvae to clompletely re-install os. if your system is too unstable, maybe you can boot into safe mode (press F8 at the end of POST screens during boot) and run system restore then.
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post #20 of 26
12/26/03 at 1:25pm
Kind of sounds like bad RAM.
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