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BAD crashes with my 8790.

post #1 of 4
2/19/05 at 8:27pm
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Ok some bad news.. Ive had my laptop for about a month now, been working absolutely perfectly.. Today i installed Port Royal and was playing to game and my notebook BSD'd. Ok so i tried to reboot and i got nothing.. no post screen, no windows loading, nothing.. just a black screen. I disconnected the battery and power cord and reconnected them, then restarted, and still nothing. Well i let the thing sit for a while and started it again, and lucky for me it started up.. Then after about 30 seconds it crashed again with a BSD and shutdown. Well, after about an hour of trying to get it to even POST and boot again i managed to get into safe mode and run system restore back to before i had port royal on there, so i did, and then i tested it on games i have been playing for months now, and after about 20 mins the game crashed hard. And now my notebook isnt booting again. I dont know what to do really, Im over here in Iraq att he moment so RMA isnt an option untill i get back.. Any suggestions?
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post #2 of 4
2/19/05 at 10:10pm
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Ok a few other bits of info, one of the BSD errors is;

IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL

STOP 0x0000000A

and the other one i saw is;

BAD POOL HEADER

STOP 0x00000019


Well, hope that helps someone who can help me. I am pretty good when it comes to tech things but really right now I have limited resources on what i can do, not being in the USA and not being able to really call anyone. Anyway thanks again to whomever may reply to this.
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post #3 of 4
2/20/05 at 2:21am
Try getting your hands on MEMTEST86 and run a full memory test on the unit (Minus the all night test - that is).
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post #4 of 4
2/20/05 at 6:12pm
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Thats the funny thing, I ran the memory test and came up with no errors. However i did discover an interesting thing. Each of the ram sticks works independently, and i can boot fine, however when i try to put them both in i get BSD and sometimes no POST at all.

I am running a 512 MB DDR 400 Kingmax stick, and a 1 GIG DDR 400 Kingmax stick. I always suspected maybe with the whole (Dual Channel?) mode it wouldnt like me having differrent sized sticks in the slots, however they are both the same brand and speed, and I have done this before with desktops. Another interesting thing is what triggered the problem now, after it working absolutely wonderful for a little over a month.

I am perplexed, that is for sure.

Anyway ill go fiddle with it some more. If not i will have to wait untill i get back to the USA in April or so to RMA the unit.
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