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Now I am completely frustrated with this system... Amidst the issues with the Video card, I am now experiencing issues with a memory error. When I play the game City of Heroes, I get about 10 minutes into gameplay and I get the error message
"The instruction at "0x697450e3 referenced memory at "0x00003518". The memory could not be "read". Click here to terminate the program.
Now I have tried many things to solve this issue including:
Taking out the RAM and switching it around
Taking out individual RAM sticks to see if one or more sticks are faulty
Running a memory test(alienware recommended) and passed a 4 hour stress on both CPU and RAM
Reseating the Video Card
Defragging the Hard Drive
Running an error checking on the C Drive(both boxes)
turning off the anti-virus, anti spam, and firewall programs
turning up the virtual memory to 3500/ 10000
Turning on the DEP program to include all programs
clearing my cache, history and internet cookies
running spyware checker
running virus check
turning off Accelerated Graphics
turning on addition video card fans (Function F2)
checking for any Windows XP updates(none)
reinstalling the game program
Passsed 3DMark program but with only 7Fps
.................Please give me some help here. The only thing I havent tried to my knowledge is to reinstall Windows and I would rather not have to due to losing all my data.
Alienware Area-51 Laptop M7700
2GRam
GeForce Go6800 Ultra 256Ram
80G HD
Windows Xp Pro
Now I am completely frustrated with this system... Amidst the issues with the Video card, I am now experiencing issues with a memory error. When I play the game City of Heroes, I get about 10 minutes into gameplay and I get the error message
"The instruction at "0x697450e3 referenced memory at "0x00003518". The memory could not be "read". Click here to terminate the program.
Now I have tried many things to solve this issue including:
Taking out the RAM and switching it around
Taking out individual RAM sticks to see if one or more sticks are faulty
Running a memory test(alienware recommended) and passed a 4 hour stress on both CPU and RAM
Reseating the Video Card
Defragging the Hard Drive
Running an error checking on the C Drive(both boxes)
turning off the anti-virus, anti spam, and firewall programs
turning up the virtual memory to 3500/ 10000
Turning on the DEP program to include all programs
clearing my cache, history and internet cookies
running spyware checker
running virus check
turning off Accelerated Graphics
turning on addition video card fans (Function F2)
checking for any Windows XP updates(none)
reinstalling the game program
Passsed 3DMark program but with only 7Fps
.................Please give me some help here. The only thing I havent tried to my knowledge is to reinstall Windows and I would rather not have to due to losing all my data.
Alienware Area-51 Laptop M7700
2GRam
GeForce Go6800 Ultra 256Ram
80G HD
Windows Xp Pro