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Article #286306Re: Quake 4 crash - malloc failure for 1398256
From: EvilBill
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:50
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:50
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Major Ursa wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 21:11 OscartheGrouch wrote: > >> >> "EvilBill" <quake2lives@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:44f2clF1tce0U1@individual.net... >>> Major Ursa wrote: > >>>> So no overclocking? > >>> Nope, no overclocking of either my CPU or graphics card. I don't >>> have enough >>> cooling for that. > >> You might go into setup right after a crash and see what temp the >> cpu is running. > > If there is no OCing then that should be OK. But I have to agree > that it certainly looks like a memory/bus timing problem. > You might try reset the BIOS to its defaults/failsafe settings. > > Another possibility is that you'r running a lot of background > processes and that your virtual memory settings are wrong. Just a > suggestion, probably ok. > Looks like it was the virtual memory. For some reason it was only reading the swap file off the C drive, and not off another hard disk which was where I'd actually *put* the bugger, LOL I re-allocated it to C: and hopefully that'll fix it. -- -- "I hope you don't object to my badgering the witless!" EvilBill - http://www.evilbill.org.uk yahoo: evilbill_agqx
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