IceForever
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Hi, im having problems with my computer restarting.
First i thought it was my video card overheating, which it probably was, but i have that fixed now and am %100 sure that is not the problem.
So my next thought was that my memory was possibly bad since it usually only crashed when playing WoW, or running many applications.(this also made sense to me because i had just fixed a problem with my HD having a corrupt file written to it, caused by this bad RAM im assuming)
I downloaded memtest, and while running it my computer restarted itself.
I then proceeded by removing one of my sticks of RAM and seeing if the same thing happened. I found that with my 512 stick my comp seemed to run fine, while when my 1gig stick was in it continued to restart.
Okay...so i leave the 512 in and am waiting to get my new 1gig stick(both were under warranty still)
However, now i am having some issues with the stick of 512, so now im kind of iffy on the whole thing, and that BOTH almost brand new sticks of RAM would go bad on me..So my questions are:
1)(and this is probably the most important)With the stick of 512 I seem to be only getting restarts when my comp is under heavy load. So..Will my computer restart if i dont have enough RAM to run all of the applications i have open?(this usually happens when i try to play WoW on only 512, but it also happened once when i was browsing the internet while memtest was going, which was kind of stupid i guess, since memtest tries to test all available RAM and i opened firefox which takes up a decent amount
)
2) Is there anything else that could be the problem?(ie. mobo problems or something?)
First i thought it was my video card overheating, which it probably was, but i have that fixed now and am %100 sure that is not the problem.
So my next thought was that my memory was possibly bad since it usually only crashed when playing WoW, or running many applications.(this also made sense to me because i had just fixed a problem with my HD having a corrupt file written to it, caused by this bad RAM im assuming)
I downloaded memtest, and while running it my computer restarted itself.
I then proceeded by removing one of my sticks of RAM and seeing if the same thing happened. I found that with my 512 stick my comp seemed to run fine, while when my 1gig stick was in it continued to restart.
Okay...so i leave the 512 in and am waiting to get my new 1gig stick(both were under warranty still)
However, now i am having some issues with the stick of 512, so now im kind of iffy on the whole thing, and that BOTH almost brand new sticks of RAM would go bad on me..So my questions are:
1)(and this is probably the most important)With the stick of 512 I seem to be only getting restarts when my comp is under heavy load. So..Will my computer restart if i dont have enough RAM to run all of the applications i have open?(this usually happens when i try to play WoW on only 512, but it also happened once when i was browsing the internet while memtest was going, which was kind of stupid i guess, since memtest tries to test all available RAM and i opened firefox which takes up a decent amount
)2) Is there anything else that could be the problem?(ie. mobo problems or something?)
