Just wanted to give a heads up on my problem. I received my 8887-V about 3 weeks ago, and love it. I also am a devout Dark Age of Camelot player. I spend hours at a time on the game, and if a problem were to be seen, it would make sense that it would happen during game play.
Sometimes while playing, the computer would hang, and nothing short of holding down the power button for several seconds to restart it would bring it back. This happened several times a night on 2 or 3 nights scattered throughout the past 3 weeks. I had been assuming it was because I had not updated to the latest video drivers, and I have HT turned on. So I found the drivers and updated.
Saturday I turned around to look at somthing and when I turned back to face the screen, I was looking at my machine rebooting. I thought this was strange, but even stranger was the fact that it could not get past the WinXP scrolling bar screen, before restarting again. Nothing I tried could get it to boot into the OS.
<cut out 4 hours of long story>
I turned off fast boot in the BIOS, and watched the memory test during startup, and whammo a memory error. Swapping memory modules around I determined I had a bad module. So with 1/2 memory installed, I got the OS reloaded (yes it trashed my OS), and all is working well again, with no further game lockups.
Moral of this LONG story: if you are having intermittent, and curious system locks, check your memory. Sager issued me a RMA without any fuss, and I await having my machine back to full functionality soon.
Sometimes while playing, the computer would hang, and nothing short of holding down the power button for several seconds to restart it would bring it back. This happened several times a night on 2 or 3 nights scattered throughout the past 3 weeks. I had been assuming it was because I had not updated to the latest video drivers, and I have HT turned on. So I found the drivers and updated.
Saturday I turned around to look at somthing and when I turned back to face the screen, I was looking at my machine rebooting. I thought this was strange, but even stranger was the fact that it could not get past the WinXP scrolling bar screen, before restarting again. Nothing I tried could get it to boot into the OS.
<cut out 4 hours of long story>
I turned off fast boot in the BIOS, and watched the memory test during startup, and whammo a memory error. Swapping memory modules around I determined I had a bad module. So with 1/2 memory installed, I got the OS reloaded (yes it trashed my OS), and all is working well again, with no further game lockups.
Moral of this LONG story: if you are having intermittent, and curious system locks, check your memory. Sager issued me a RMA without any fuss, and I await having my machine back to full functionality soon.
