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tenshi
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ok so i just got a copy of DooM 3, and everything is ok untill it starts to load the level, after a little while of loading i get this message
The instruction at "0x101437F9" referenced at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read"
and obviously it quits the game, please any help!!!!!
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Well, Im guessing its a downloaded copy, in which case theres not a hell of a lot you can do. Suppoosing its off kazaa every 200mb's of it you download theres likely to be a corrupt file and theres no way to fix that. Otherwise if its a legal copy, it could be a problem with your memory, either your system memory or you video cards memory, most likely a bad stick of RAM. Have you been having problems like this with other games? Also a few basic things you could try before you do anything major, if your overclocking anything then try resetting that, and you could try reinstalling the game. Hope this helps...  |
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Have you installed WinXP service pack 2? I was getting a lot of errors like that with other programs when I first installed SP2. If you have installed it, uninstall it and try doom3 again.
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well, the problem ive had is with Hitman 2, when just suddenly quits the game, and actually i had several problems when i installed SP2 but when i uninstalled it i still had the same problems, like the computer restarting, and getting an error mesage, so i reinstalled windows, and is seems to have been solved, by the way, nothing in my computer is OC
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Yep, programs suddenly quitting, restarts/bsods all sound like a possible memory problem I would try downloading the iso/floppy image of memtest86+ from http://www.memtest.org and give it a spin... Hope that helps... |
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ok, so i just bought a new DDR2100 256mb and when i install it windows just wont boot, if i use it with my other DDR2100 256mb stick it shows me a message like
The C:\Windows\Drivers\Ntfs.* is corrupt
and something else that i can repair ir with the cdc boot, but when i try to run the installation from boot i get an error message really weird.... could it be that my mobo is saying good bye??
ohh by the way i aso tryed the new memory in another computer and it worked perfectly
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As i said before, try running a memory test just to make sure thats okay...it doesnt take too long anyway, like 10 minutes i think...
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ok just did that, no errors what so ever, did 3 passes and no error at all, but then i installed the new memory and its already 13000 errors and its just on Test #1 :20%
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Well you know what that means... Obviously the first stick is fine, but its time to return the second stick  So if you only have the good stick in the machine, you get ntfs.sys is corrupt? |
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Well you know what that means... Obviously the first stick is fine, but its time to return the second stick So if you only have the good stick in the machine, you get ntfs.sys is corrupt? nope, i get that error with the bat memory stick... and the thing is that i tested the new/bad memory stick in another computer and it worked fine |
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Ok so you ran a test on the new stick in another computer and it passed okay?
That could mean that theres a problem with the actual slot in your computer, try putting the ram into a different slot and running another test and seeing if it helps...
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Might be worth taking it back and getting them to try it then, obviously its not your computer...
Programs shutting themselves down is definately a memory problem.
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well obviously i took it back but when they tryed it on their computer it worked fine, with no problem... mmm then how can i fix the memory problem??? its annoying
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Have you tried increasing your memory timings a bit, its possible that you're using settings that the new ram can't handle, I doubt it but its still a possibility.
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