Two problems, hopefully they can both be answered. Let's start with some specs
MOBO: Asrock H61M-HVS
CPU: Intel i5-3570 3.44 GHz
RAM: 8GB
Video Card: EVGA Nvidia GTX 660ti 2GB
OS: Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium
Steam keeps having to download big 900 MB chunks of Borderlands 2, and when I go to play it, the game crashes after about 10 minutes of play. It runs very well, and just crashes to black screen suddenly. After the crash, it will have to redownload the 900 MB files again. I've tried deleting ClientRegistry.blob, as well as restarting Steam. Has anyone had a similar problem, or has any idea how I can fix this?
The other issue I've been having is I think my RAM is incompatible with my MOBO or something, because I get BSOD's every 5 hours or so. I ran the Memory Diagnostic tool, and it did detect a hardware problem. I took out the RAM and reseated it, but it didn't seem to do anything. Is this a common issue with my MOBO, and should I just buy new RAM? Or could this be a faulty RAM slot on the board?
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
If you ran the Windows "Memory Diagnostic Tool", it's a piece of shit. Try running memtest instead.
[url]www.memtest.org[/url]
For best results, you should run it for at least 8 hours (24 hours is best, but not everyone can go without a machine that long if they don't have a spare.) That is, unless errors start popping up immediately.
I think I fixed the RAM issue myself. I took out one of the sticks of RAM, and ran the Windows tool again, this was last night so I didn't see your post until now, but it didn't come up with any errors, even through the extended test. Normally, my computer would blue screen after about 4 hours, even if I'm not doing anything so I left it on overnight to test it and it never shut off, never crashed, nothing. So I'm thinking that one of the RAM slots on my Motherboard is busted.
[QUOTE=AutomataReturns;37759667]I think I fixed the RAM issue myself. I took out one of the sticks of RAM, and ran the Windows tool again, this was last night so I didn't see your post until now, but it didn't come up with any errors, even through the extended test. Normally, my computer would blue screen after about 4 hours, even if I'm not doing anything so I left it on overnight to test it and it never shut off, never crashed, nothing. So I'm thinking that one of the RAM slots on my Motherboard is busted.[/QUOTE]
It's more likely to be the stick rather than the slot.
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As bohb said, run memtest86+ over night with all the sticks in. If it shows errors, take that one stick out again and run memtest86+ for another night.
Unfortunately, since this computer isn't only used by me, just mainly, I cannot run that diagnostic for that long. I tested the working stick of RAM in the slot I thought was broken, and there were no hardware problems detected. I'm going to pick up another 4GB stick of RAM today, if it continues to blue screen then I'll run that diagnostic. Yeah, it's probably way better than the Windows one, but I just don't have that kind of time.
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