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Gho Higyidr
Black Serpent Technologies
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2008.09.16 19:58:00 -
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Ever since the latest EVE patch I have been crashing and blue screening in intense battle situations. The worst of which is today. I have never had issues before now and before the patch. Computer will crash, restart itself, run a disk check and deletecorrupted fiels and recover a BUNCH of orphaned files. When I restart the eve client all of my settings and account info (log in names) disappear as if I have never run EVE before. This leads me to believe something with the eve client is causign issues. Any idea what thisc ould be related to?
I run an ASUS gaming laptop with nvidia GeForce 9500m GS Vid card, 512 DDR3 mem and 4 gigs of Ram on Vista64 ( I hate Vista). Also runs Intel Centrino Duo Core processor.
I wish I could screen the scan disk while it's showing me what it's recovering. Also computer runs fine after restart until I try and play EVE. EVE has also been reinstalled on th computer with only worsening results. Suggestions please?
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Falkrich Swifthand
Caldari
eNinjas Incorporated
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Posted - 2008.09.17 09:49:00 -
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Go into your system properties and turn off automatic restart (on XP it's under advanced tab -> startup and recovery button). Then when your pc crashes it should tell you an error code (like IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA) and normally a filename (like p17xfilt.dll (my xfi sound card driver) or nv4_disp.sys (nvidia graphics driver)). This should give us some clue what is wrong.
Normally updating the drivers for whatever is crashing will sort it, but you could have one of the plague of faulty nvidia 8000 / 9000 series graphics chips.
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achoura
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Posted - 2008.09.17 10:44:00 -
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Funny thing is the last patch actually stopped my bsod problem, although the client does enjoy corrupting itself more often so i'm torn between crap drivers/fault card and eve bug, though after my problems i'm inclined to think bug.
In either case you might be best lodging it under a technical help petition with your dxdiag which will narrow out one or the other, and fix the bug if indeed its the same crap that happened to me.
***The EVE servers and their patches*** |
Mikal Zackfelt
Gallente
Vanguard Frontiers
Violent-Tendencies
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Posted - 2008.09.17 15:37:00 -
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Edited by: Mikal Zackfelt on 17/09/2008 15:37:10
Have you tried updating the drivers? It sounds like maybe something is outta whack with the drivers. Or you might be suffering from overheating issues as well. Do you see what the BSOD says? It also might be an issue with the laptop; Asus doesn't have a pretty good track record for quality control as of late, if that is the case then you might want to get it looked at to make sure everything is fine. And lemme tell you this, 512mb of Ram + 64bit OS = bad news... Are you sure it's 512mb of Ram? If so, run away from that laptop as fast as you can since 512mb is the absolute bare minimum to run a 64bit OS, ever. The recommended amount should be at least 2-4GB of Ram. Also, DDR3 is still new so it might a bad stick of Ram if even that.
Hope this helps,
Mikal
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Gho Higyidr
Black Serpent Technologies
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2008.09.18 02:28:00 -
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 Originally by: Mikal Zackfelt
Edited by: Mikal Zackfelt on 17/09/2008 15:37:10
Have you tried updating the drivers? It sounds like maybe something is outta whack with the drivers. Or you might be suffering from overheating issues as well. Do you see what the BSOD says? It also might be an issue with the laptop; Asus doesn't have a pretty good track record for quality control as of late, if that is the case then you might want to get it looked at to make sure everything is fine. And lemme tell you this, 512mb of Ram + 64bit OS = bad news... Are you sure it's 512mb of Ram? If so, run away from that laptop as fast as you can since 512mb is the absolute bare minimum to run a 64bit OS, ever. The recommended amount should be at least 2-4GB of Ram. Also, DDR3 is still new so it might a bad stick of Ram if even that.
Hope this helps,
Mikal
Yeah probably. :) But since I tried everything you recommended (and the other guy recommended) with no success.... I did the last resort. Backed up the files on my computer, wiped the drive and started over. Whatever it was fixed the issue. I think I know the culprit: AVG Anti-Virus saw my Direct Console (nifty little graphics that scroll across the top of my keyboard) as a virus, and thusly quarantined the program.... and since that all runs off the drivers for the vid card... it was causing massive instability in teh system. I am not sure how feasible this is... However wiping and reinstaling fixed it and the laptop now runs like a dream. :) Like it did when i bought it 2 months ago.
Needless to say it's under full warranty for 5 years, so my last bet before wiping was taking it in and saying: "Hey you a-hole.. fix this expensive laptop I bought from you!" :)
Great laptop nonetheless, just have to watch what you put on Vista64. :/
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