Sam67_uk, on Feb 3 2007, 03:49 PM, said:
Ohh I like Windows Vista, it's EMC9 I don't like
I personally like a challenge. I wonder if Roxio does ?
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I've been doing a bit of RAM swapping. I have 3 slots 1GB, 512MB and 256MB to give 1.75GB total. To cut a very long story short, the only chip which is stable and doesn't give the error is the 512MB one. Any of the other 2 chips installed either togather or on their own gives me the error. I've tried them in different memory slots, same error. I can run EMC9 when I eventually get into Windows.
And no problems at all during the installation ? I'm thinking memory configuration issue here.
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Of course I can't run Vista on 512MB RAM no matter what Microsoft say!
The definition of the term "run" has many interpretations. Look at Dubya ! (Rot row ! He said the D-word !) I ran Windows 2000 Pro on a P1 - 100 MHz proc for a little bit out of necessity. Combined with 768MB of RAM, it functioned albeit pretty slowly.
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It's very frustrating when all the RAM happily lived together until ROXIO came along then all these problems. I can't see why they should appear with just one program. Now I have to go to the expense of buying a GB of RAM just to see whether I can cure the problem or not!
I'd run the Vista RAM diags. Also are you running an nForce 3-based motherboard by any chance ? If that's the case I'd recommend getting 2X1GB sticks that are twins. Running unmatched memory in a motherboard designed to run in a dual channel configuration is asking for trouble. I know as I had a MSI nForce 3 motherboard. Had one pair of top notch GEIL DIMM's and wanted to add a third 512 DIMM howver the the timing was 2.5 vs. the CL2 of the GEIL. The whole system slowed down and errors became something of a concern when I heaped up the RAM. And as you can already see, Vista really heaps it up ! What I'm getting at is that your system may have difficulty with all of the memory addressing that's going on. Particularly if you have a video card that has less than 256MB of RAM and might be addressing your RAM. With a 128MB card it wasn't even an issue with XP however cards with workarounds such as TurboCache and such marketing BS can be another source of problems. I trust the chipset manufacturers to make decent chipsets to address the RAM however when a video card starts doing it, well they simply are designed to peacefully co-exist in my opinion.
gi7omy, on Feb 3 2007, 03:55 PM, said:
Could be anything really stressing the RAM there - I've seen it happen out of the blue on other machines (it's
fine if left alone and you don't do anything, but falls over when you start)
Vista is a lot more demanding - add in something that really loads things up like video rendering and the RAM will fall over. A quick check - back down the bus speed a notch or two and see if it will stabilise
We're thinking along the same lines here though I believe that the bus speed should automatically clock down. Particularly if it's an AMD system where the northbridge controller is on the proc. I'm wondering if his video card isn't placing stuff in RAM. The new-ish cards by ATI and nVidia use things like Turbo-cache and other such nonsense to offset the cost of memory increasing the price of the card. Unfortunately I have an ATI X600 w/256MB RAM w.TurboCache and now my system is using 512MB after being left on all day. Fortunately that's well down from the 768 that it was using earlier during indexing. Anyway, one way of checking this would be to disable the Vista theme engine and change the systems theme back to Windows Classic mode.
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