What's wrong?? Please help!!

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hi, here's the problem: when my cous was playing gta sa, he said he heard two beeps and the system was shut down. When he switched on the monitor gave 'No Signal'. He reinserted 9800GTX+ but the monitor gave him no signal, he reinserted the ram also, but no. He even took out the cmos battery and inserted again nothing. What's the problem, guys. He can't test his card with my rig, 'cause i am on a holiday. Please tell me a solution guys. He's worried. Thank you in advance

most probably RAM or SMPS is faulty. But as monitor is showing no signal, i doubt its RAM problem. Ask him to try with different RAM

RAM or SMPS problem, check both.

Try and isolate it with the graphic card as well.

1. Tell your friend to re-insert ram sticks.
2. Try with different Ram.
3. Try with a different Gfx card.
4 Try with a different PSU.

I had a same problem 4 months ago.I also thought RAM was at fault.But my motherobard,gfx card and RAM all were dead due to overheating.

Did you overclock ur system @ Gaurav?

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^^Thank you guys for suggesting. He said RAM was the culprit. He was using 2GB RAM of Transcend & 1GB RAM of ZION, both were 667MHz. The ZION had gone nuts

. Now he's using only 2Gigs of RAM. Is it sufficient for playing games [Crysis, Fallout 3] at 4x AA 16x AF and 1440x900 res.???? Is there any difference between 2GB & 3GB in games???

ya its ok ,, but try to increase

when he is using 32bitos means its ok

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Yes, 32bit OS. No probs, huh???

ya ,, up to gta-4 there is no probs

dont know about future ???

Yup no probs in 32 Bit OS, max 32 bit can use is 2GB RAM

2GB is enough...The extra GB would hardly make a difference...

32 bit OS use 3.25GB RAM !!!

damngoodman999 said:
ya its ok ,, but try to increase

when he is using 32bitos means its ok

32bit or 64bit, makes no difference until you have 4GB RAM or so, since some RAM is not utilized.

damngoodman999 said:
32 bit OS use 3.25GB RAM !!!

32bit can use upto 64GB RAM with PAE...

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

the default 32bit OS only uses 3.25 GB

there are many modds r there to convert the 32bit os to recogonize 32gb RAM

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Does Crysis will be sufficient with 2GB??? At 4x AA & 16x AF 7 1440x900 res.

???

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^^^ just remove the 4xAA part..it will work with good gpus like 4850 or 9800gtx+.. btw 4xAA won't even work on gtx 260..

Yea forget about aa in crysgs

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i played crysis at very high settings but with 2x AA & crysis: warhead at enthusiast settings & 2x AA on my hd 4850..without any crashes or freezing whatsoever.

@ nvidiageek - tell your friend to buy another 2 GB stick & run both 2GBs in dual channel. They will give better perf in games.

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topgear said:
@ nvidiageek - tell your friend to buy another 2 GB stick & run both 2GBs in dual channel. They will give better perf in games.

"tell your cousin"

. 32-bit OS uses 3.25GB RAM, right?? But is 4GB RAM utilized by the 'demanding' games on 32-bit OS???

amitash said:
Yea forget about aa in crysgs

"CRYSiS". Why?? I have played with 4x AA with High settings & Crysis WARHEAD with Enthusiast settings & at same AA [DX9]. No probs.

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^^^ you are not eligible to say that....hardly anyone has sig like your

@sekhar CRYSIS - simply not possible, i'hv almost same setup as yours and cpu/gpu well overclocked. in benchmark tool you might get 30+ fps, but gamepaly won't be smooth with very high+2AA

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^^Rig in the Sig [

] is my brother's. It's supremely fast! I can't wait when he comes back to India.

@foruamit2004 - What's not eligible, I didn't understand???

. I've played Crysis at above quoted settings with my Rig. Which's Intel C2D E8400@3.0GHz, 2GB RAM 667MHz, PALiT Radeon HD4850 Sonic, Intel DG31PR [

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nvidiageek said:
"tell your cousin" . 32-bit OS uses 3.25GB RAM, right?? But is 4GB RAM utilized by the 'demanding' games on 32-bit OS???

Buddy that's not true. 32 bit OS doesn't have 3.25GB mem limitation.
For eg. Windows Server 2003 32 bit Enterprise Edition SP2 Supports 64GB Ram.
Windows Server 2003 32 bit Datacenter Edition SP2 Supports 128GB of Ram.

But, 32 bit consumer grade OS like Vista & XP 32 bit editions have such limitations.

For 4 GB Ram - I've said to get 2x 2GB Ram & Run them in dual channel. Coz Dual Channel does gives 15-30% more bandwidth compared to single channel.
So all memory intensive apps will run faster.

32 bit programs can support a max mem of 2GB. So games & other programs
which can utilise 2GB ram will benefit even more.

Also you can always go for 64bit OS & get more performance.

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If I switch to 64-bit OS, does 32-bit games uses the performance of 64-bit OS??? Or do I have to buy 64-bit Games?? Do Games switch to 32- or 64-bit when we change the OS 32- or 64-bit???

^^Dun worry, the work. And only if the game is 64-bit optimized(it's usually mentioned), then it benefits from the 64-bit OS. Else only the xtra ram comes in2 use.

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Thanks, budd

[offtopic: Tell me some games which has some best ending]

Depends, try Fallout 3, nice game.
Left 4 Dead
COD 5

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@nvidia... Guess, i'm not that lucky...offcourse my crysis copy was not that well ***** and was without patches..

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^^I didn't patch the Crysis. My Dial-up is so bad, that it takes 2 mins to download 500kB!!
So Crysis 1.2 patch was 300MB+, that's impossible for me to download. 25MB's too big....

@comp@ddict - Fallout 3's ending didn't impress me. I don't like ending where we have to die!

. BiA:HH's ending was superb!

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foruamit2004 said:
^^^ just remove the 4xAA part..it will work with good gpus like 4850 or 9800gtx+.. btw 4xAA won't even work on gtx 260..

You must be kidding me. It works very well in my Asus Radeon HD4850 at Enthusiast and all full settings.

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Yeah, no probs^^. He got another problem: He says that whenever he runs GTA IV, the command prompt comes up, but the game doesn't run. What might be the problem???

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add to topgear's point there is little optimization to rectify usage of upto 4GB in XP.
so it will be that both the sticks will get used but not to max. and again you will gain the benefit of dual channel. but it is not very high IMO

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Thanks. What about the problem of GTA IV

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^^ Try and reinstall game.May be that helps

Install Grand Theft Auto 4 v1.0.1.0 Patch

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^^How much is the size of that update???

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its about 32.6mb....download the v1.0 patch & not the v1.02 patch..the 2nd patch doesnot help.in my case it created even greater problems.

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Ahh! I can download that size. Crysis' 300MB's too much. Can Crysis 1.1 be patched with the hotfix 1.2.1???

Possibility is high. Race driver GRID and mass effect was stable after getting patch updates and hotfix from both the side. Btw 9.12 catalyst is out.

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well you can go to some internet cafe & download it there. i am not sure about the crysis patch.i've played crysis on my hd4850 without any patch at very high settings & 2x AA.

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^^How much's THAT?? :neutral:

. Will it improve GTA IV's performance?? I am gonna buy after the exams are over, $H!T :evil:

@sekhar_xxx - No there's some good mod for Crysis which is only for 1.2 & 1.2.1, I use 1.1. 1.2 patch is too big, can 1.2.1 be patched with 1.1???

:???:

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MY sys config:
intel dg 31 PR
intel core 2 quad 2.4 q660
ram-4 gb kingston
nvdia 9400 gt-512 mb
dell wide lcd-e1909
seagate harddisk-500gb

one of my prob is when is use photoshop cs3 or cs2 version..the software doesnt respond smoothly.
and also when i entered password in my login(at welcome screen)
it shows loading your personel settings for approx..20-30 seconds to start.
my first partition i.e C drive is of 100gb
plz help me out.
is my motherboard and processor is incompatible
plzzzzzzzz help

Doesnt GTA4 have tonnes of issues which was corrected in the new patch?