Hi aka Flipper,
Yes, you could do that. Remember the precautions I posted for
you in the first post about replacing RAM in your computer though!
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Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
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aka Flipper Wrote:
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| Thanks for a very comprehensive rundown on the situation Jimmy S.
| I'm going to have to take it slowly,one step at a time. I guess that I
| return the 256 stick of DDR Ram to the slot before going any further ?
| Thanks once again.
|
|| Hi aka Flipper,
||
|| Two answer your questions:
||
|| 1. You should generally put the larger RAM stick in the first slot.
||
|| 2. Updating video card drivers can solve most gaming issues. Here's some
|| simple abc's to always keep in mind. a. Shut off download accelerators,
|| firewalls and antivirus programs when downloading or installing updates;
|| b. Check for game patches:
www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
|| c. Make sure you meet the game's minimum video and system requirements;
|| d. Check for known issues with your video card at the game's web site.
||
|| 1. Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you update DirectX
|| from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
||
|| Here are the steps I recommend you use to update your driver. If you've
|| never done this before I recommend you also look over the Installation hints
|| and Release Notes both of which are linked to from their download page.
||
|| 2. Download the latest drivers from:
www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
||
|| 3. Save the .exe driver in My Documents\My Drivers\nVidia
||
|| 4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||
|| 5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
|| Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
|| the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.
||
|| 6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
|| previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.
||
|| 7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||
|| 8. If Windows prompts you to install the adapter, click "Cancel".
||
|| 9. Double click the nVidia driver we saved to My Documents\My
|| Drivers\nVidia folder in step 3 to install.it. If it complains about
|| Windows Logo Certification just click "Continue". This is normal.
||
|| 10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
|| choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
||
|| TROUBLESHOOTING:
||
|| Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
|| Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
|| If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
|| your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
|| my website:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11
||
|| Your program might not support dual monitors, or "dual head" video cards
|| You can disable the extra video output in your display properties control
|| panel. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced.
||
|| Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
|| and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
|| motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
|| your Video card. These steps are listed at:
http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk
||
|| Perhaps the old Nvidia drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
|| case, use this utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step 7:
||
http://content.guru3d.com/index.php?page=detonatorrip&menu=0
||
|| The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
|| (Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game folder/CD)
|| If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
|| experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:
||
|| BETA Drivers:
http://download.guru3d.com/
|| OMEGA Drivers:
http://www.omegadrivers.net
||
|| There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them!
||
|| --
|| Cheers, Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| aka Flipper Wrote:
|| =================
||| Hi again Jimmy S.
|||
||| Removed the 256 stick of RAM about an hour ago and then attempted to run the
||| two games in question (Tribes 2 and Doom 3 ) however,the results were the
||| same as before ie error messages. Ran and played Tribes Vengeance OK though.
||| Just a thought,should I have relocated the new 512 stick of RAM to the slot
||| from which I removed the original 256 stick ?
|||
||| Something else of possible interest...I had a look at the setup instructions
||| for the new ASUS video card (as it all seemed to go bad after installation of
||| the new card and the new RAM) and it states that before installing the new
||| card,the driver for the existing VGA card should be uninstalled...as I
||| had,and may still have,an onboard video card,could this have a bearing on the
||| problem ?
|||
||| Kind regards
|||
|||| Hi aka Flipper,
||||
|||| Before touching the inside of your case, you must shutdown
|||| your computer, unplug it, and ground yourself to release any
|||| static electricity from your fingertips.
||||
|||| RAM sticks are held in place by two levers which snap in place.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| aka Flipper Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Thanks Jimmy S.
||||| It seems that I am going to have to open up this box,something I am
||||| unfamiliar with;is removing the (original) stick of 256 RAM as simple as just
||||| unscrewing it from its position ?
||||| Kind regards,
|||||
|||||| Hi aka Flipper,
||||||
|||||| Your RAM should not be mismatched as it is now.
|||||| Try using just the one 512 MB stick as a test please.
||||||
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|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
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|||||| aka Flipper Wrote:
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||||||| Hi to all.
||||||| My PC is a P4 with ht,it has an onboard video card.I have loaded the
||||||| following games:
||||||| Doom 3
||||||| Battlefield Vietnam
||||||| Tribes Vengeance
||||||| Tribes 2
|||||||
||||||| Tribes 2 worked fine however,the other three games were "sloppy" and slow
||||||| and from time to time "froze up". I was told that I needed more RAM (only
||||||| had 256 meg) and a better video card....I arranged with the local shop to
||||||| install another 512 of RAM and a Radeon ASUS A9250 video card.
||||||| After installation,Battlefield Vietnam and Tribes Vengeance played really
||||||| well...very pleased.
||||||| Tribes 2 would not launch giving an error message Unhandled Exception
||||||| c0000005 at address 0000000.
||||||| Doom 3 would not play giving a really massive list of details headed error
||||||| during Initialization and later in the message "the current video
||||||| card/driver combination does not support the neccessary features (lots of
||||||| "couldn't find" and "couldn't open" details etc. )
|||||||
||||||| My problem is basically that whilst I like playing BV and TV
||||||| , the younger family members prefer the Tribes 2 and Doom 3 !
|||||||
||||||| Could anyone assist me please with this one ?
