Blue screen of death with EB 1.2

**bovi** · 03-09-2009, 12:45

EB taxes your system a lot more than vanilla does, so the vanilla test doesn't cut it I'm afraid. As you've experimented with various video drivers, have you also checked your memory? That's a common cause of random crashes. Run Memtest overnight to verify that your chips are fine (google it).

BTW, what Maion said about increasing virtual memory might help too; RTW leaks memory and the problem will happen sooner when you don't have enough of this. Go to the control panel => system => advanced => performance ("Settings") => Advanced => Virtual Memory ("Change"), and increase the size.

**mosedavid** · 03-09-2009, 15:30

right.... thanks for that, i hadnt considered it but i think i set my memory to 'turbo' in the bios. Thats basically overclocking it. this was done not too long ago so that could be the culprit! I'll google memtest and check it out tonight. cheers.

**mosedavid** · 03-11-2009, 20:51

upped the page file to highest limit - no change to BSOD

**mosedavid** · 03-11-2009, 21:02

ok.... from your advice I did the following checks...

Memtest+ overnight completes 17 cycles error free. The ram timings i left on overdrive 'turbo' setting in the bios: simular to manually tweeking the timings.

Did a burn in test with Sandra - only errors that came up pertained to the CD roms/Floppy that it was trying to read/write to. Some had no disks in so I recieved an error message saying so. The Radeon card got the error: "Required display format not available. Try updating the video drivers".. Memory again passed this burn in on Sandra.

Checked My Raid Array which is about 250gb on raid1 (not stripped but mirrored) over 3 disks. A-OK

Checked temps of PC in general using sandra over load playing EB. All pretty rock solid and nothing over 55 degees C. At idle the Radeon was around 33 degees C. All voltages were rock solid with slight rises in areas when playing EB.

Any ideas where to go from here....?

**bovi** · 03-11-2009, 21:05

Did you try increasing the virtual memory?

**mosedavid** · 03-13-2009, 13:17

yes, as i put in an erlier post, i upped the page file limit to the highest it could go... made no difference.

**bovi** · 03-13-2009, 17:25

Sorry, missed that post. Then I'm afraid I cannot help you anymore, for I've run out of suggestions.

Edit: Wait a minute. Have you tried to run on tiny unit size? I know, not very sexy battles then, but it's a good test for whether it's the amount of stuff happening that's choking your computer.