any Technies around please !! :)

mandi

Sorry this is late , but my pc keeps crashing , cos im not technie Im need some help please

Im playing a game that uses a lot of memory , after a few mins I crash . blue screen says " collecting memory data for crash dump " says ive to contact my administrator

and then when I restart It starts in " safe mode " Any Ideas please



thank you


Mandi

raptorman

What game is it? Have you played it before on your PC or is this the
first time? How much RAM do you have?

raptorman

Glad I could help

mandi

Hi Rap ::) Its Second Life , played it loads of times , and have 2 whateverer they are called of memory ...

felling more foolish now sorry,,, Do you think It a memory issue Rap ?..

I can play the game , then all of a sudden its happening ?


ty for replying

raptorman

Do you have anything else running while you are playing? Or have you installed anything else lately that might be causing a problem?

Seems strange, have you tried a 'system restore' to see if that
makes a difference.

ps. what's your character name(if I see you I will say hi) or your home location in Second Life
pps. gotta go to bed now, hope you get sorted

mandi

No Rap I dont have anything else running .. It is strange because its only happening a couple of nights a week . Il try a system restore now,

Hey . thank you sooooooooo much * kiss

frogman_2

Sounds as if it is running out of memory due to other apps. or processes.

Have you done a hard reset cycle? That is switch the machine off and then re-boot.

When you re-boot, EXIT all un-necessary software programs specially IM apps. (check Task Manager).

Then try again...

That's my 2 pence worth...;)

frogman_2

Before you do a system restore, when you get the blue screen that asks if you want to boot up in SAFE mode; select "Last known good configuration" and try that first...

Sometimes helps!

mandi

aw thank you...... I thought 2 gig of memory was enough ..lol

jje_2

2GB is enough for most tasks it looks like something else is going on running wise or one of the memory sticks may be at fault .

jje

TonyLisaP

You probably have a leaky application, a leaky app doesn't close off the memory usage and just uses more and more till you run out. What operating system are you running? If you are running vista there is an inbuilt memory checking tool that you can run to see if it is a hardware problem.