Numerous Problems....

[BugginOuT]

The system was running fine for over the past 6 months, O/C the X2 to 2.6Ghz.

 

Here are a few scenarios on what have happened over time.

 

Playing Madden06, the actual gameplay would move like it's in Fast Forward mode, everything would move so fast, usually a simple reboot would fix the problem, but not anymore.

 

Same thing when playing Rome: Total War, when I go into battle mode, all the units would move fast, running around like crazed madmen.

 

But when it came to BF2, all is normal...i found that kind of odd.

 

So I ran a Memtest on the Ballastix and behold, errors started popping out, I called up Crucial and they would RMA it.

 

I got hold of some Dell RAM, just to keep my rig up and running until the new Ballastix came in, I've tried running Madden06, but the same problem would occur.

 

I ran the Memtest for over 2 hours on the Dell's, but no error.

 

This morning, when I tried to boot up the PC, it would hang almost everytime I tried to hit the "Del" key or moving within the BIOS menu.

 

I tried installing the AMD64 driver last week, but I think that made it worse. I'm kind of leaning towards a bad mobo @ this point, but I'm going to re-install Windows first, before I made that judgement call.

 

Anyone care to chime in their thoughts?

[red930]

Did you follow this guide to installing the hotfix?

 

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81429

 

And was your computer still overclocked when trying to run the el cheapo Dell ram? I'd suggest taking it back to basics and get it running fine at stock first. Remember that the Ballistix have also had major problems in dying, especially if you got them that long ago.

[Mustang9621]

Some of those older games don't work well with the DC CPU's you have to sent the CPU infinity to one core to run those games proprely

[BugginOuT]

Some of those older games don't work well with the DC CPU's you have to sent the CPU infinity to one core to run those games proprely

 

Do you have a quick link on how to do this?

[supraboytt]

doubled

[supraboytt]

Do you have a quick link on how to do this?

 

 

Start Madden-> tab out to windows.->Press ctrl alt del-> goto processes-> right click on madden-> down at the bottom there is an affinity button-> click that and set to one.

 

this would happen to me sometimes too, like I was playing Mark Ecko's gettin up and the guy would move super fast.

[BugginOuT]

Start Madden-> tab out to windows.->Press ctrl alt del-> goto processes-> right click on madden-> down at the bottom there is an affinity button-> click that and set to one.

 

this would happen to me sometimes too, like I was playing Mark Ecko's gettin up and the guy would move super fast.

 

Will try that tonite, Thanx!

[BugginOuT]

Did you follow this guide to installing the hotfix?

 

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81429

 

And was your computer still overclocked when trying to run the el cheapo Dell ram? I'd suggest taking it back to basics and get it running fine at stock first. Remember that the Ballistix have also had major problems in dying, especially if you got them that long ago.

 

I would like to say "Thank You" for posting that link up, I tried Madden06 after the Hotfix procedure and it seem like it fix that Fast Forward bug, I'm going to try Rome: Total War tonite.

[BugginOuT]

I have a question...

 

By making these changes, how does this affect me in the future, when games can utilized Dual Core CPU's?