how to check my pci speed?

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:51 am

hey guys i have 2 pci-e slots in my motherboard and i was just wondering how do i check what speed they are like "x8" or "x16"

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:52 am

What motherboard do you have?

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:58 am

its an asus, not sure how to find out which one tho, you see my computer has been freezing up and crashing alot, and then i got a blue screen saying a recent hardware addityion is causing the problem, then while i was playing cs my fps is a constant 100 and it dropped to 10-30 and was really laggy. btw my card is nvidia Geforce 7900gtx 512 pci-e x8

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:07 am

Well if your video card is a PCIe 8x card the slot is at least a PCIe 8x slot.

If you get the blue screen again copy down error message.

Do you have a virus scanner on your pc?

Should run ccleaner, spybot, and super antispyware at least. Is the graphics card new?

Is this a prebuilt system or did you build it?

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:20 am

my motherboard is "A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard"
i just reformatted my comp and scanned clean
prebuilt system for "www.digitalstormonline.com"

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:02 am

Do you have a virus scanner on your pc?

Have you added new hardware?

Make any recent changes?

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:34 am

havent added nothing, no recent changes i just reformatted, and yes i have zone alarm full suite

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:59 am

i just got the same blue message again
-----------------------------------------
A problem has been detected and windows has shut down to prevent damage to your computer

MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION

check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.if this is a new installation ask your hardware or software manufactuer for any windows updates you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software, disable bios memory options such as caching or shadowing.

Technical Information
***Stop:0x0000009C
beginning dump of physical memory
physical memory dump complete.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:04 am

Do a bit defender online scan:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

What about the others i mentioned do u use spybot and super antispyware?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:10 am

shadowklr wrote:i just got the same blue message again
-----------------------------------------
A problem has been detected and windows has shut down to prevent damage to your computer

MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION

check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.if this is a new installation ask your hardware or software manufactuer for any windows updates you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software, disable bios memory options such as caching or shadowing.

Technical Information
***Stop:0x0000009C
beginning dump of physical memory
physical memory dump complete.

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

Download the 1.65 bootable iso zip, burn the iso image, you know how to burn iso files? In nero you go under file, burn image, and select the iso file.

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:08 am

i dont know how to burn iso files,, and i diont have nero : /

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:11 am

i downloaded the memtest and i try to extract it with winrar and nothing happens : / im so lost. sorry but im dumb when it comes to this stuff

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:30 am

shadowklr wrote:i downloaded the memtest and i try to extract it with winrar and nothing happens : / im so lost. sorry but im dumb when it comes to this stuff

Thats ok, what program do you use to burn CDs?

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:55 am

i burn cds on my other comp, but can i just dl the floppy drive memtest and use that 1?

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:56 am

and btw this is my motherboard http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/mai ... n-sli.html

will this memory work in it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820134039

Popa_Mintin · Post by **Popa_Mintin** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:00 am

You could try:- [Start] [Control Panel] [System] then on the [Hardware] tab:- [Device Manager] then look down the list for any any yellow triangles with a ! in them... if you find one (any), click it (them, in turn) and run the troubleshooter.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:40 am

shadowklr wrote:i burn cds on my other comp, but can i just dl the floppy drive memtest and use that 1?

Yes. Do the floppy disk one and boto with it in it will start automatically. It starts at pass 0 and goes to 9 or 10, then will repeat, once you get back to pass 0 again you can stop it if its fine. If you have a ton of errors by pass 6 you can stop too.

shadowklr wrote:and btw this is my motherboard http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/mai ... n-sli.html

will this memory work in it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820134039

And yes again.

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:06 am

well i did the memtest and got no errors :/ ima try what popa mintin said

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:11 pm

Is your CPU overclocked?

Some infofrom MS:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329284

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:33 pm

I wouldn't run zone alarm...

also did you load the correct nforce drivers? I have the premium of that board and it uses nforce4 AMD driver.

Also might look at running this..its from dell but it will still pick up crash reasons and show them to you
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/ ... l=en&s=dhs

also as mentioned make sure your comp is clean of spyware/malware, download superantispyware.com and Spybot Search and Destroy(do not install tea timer) and scan everything.

shadowklr · Post by **shadowklr** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:36 pm

no its not, now i tried what popa mintin said and this is what i see

could it be the "pci memory controller" it says its not installed?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:18 pm

Run windows upate it should find a driver for you.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:25 pm

if its a nforce 4 board which I think it is.. download and run this:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_win2k_6.86.html