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    BSOD on First Book

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Ricardo18.bnu, Feb 28, 2007.

  1. Ricardo18.bnu

    Ricardo18.bnu Newbie

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    Hi,

    I`m having some trouble with my Acer 5672 Wlmi
    Every time my notebook makes the first boot i got a BSOD of MEMORY_MANAGEMENT then i reset and in the second boot everething works fine.

    I had already tried to change the memory and the error persist, every peripheral on my rig works fine, the only think that i had found strage is on my Catalyst. On the hardware information it display 895MB of hypermemory but i know that my x1600 only have 512mb of hypermemory.

    My pc specs:
    ACER 5672 WLMI
    Duo Core 1,66
    2Gb Ram DDR2
    HD 120Gb
    Ati x1600 512mb
    Windows Vista Final with the latest updates.
    Catalyst is the latest one downloaded from ATI site.


    If somebody could help me, i'll be gratefull!

    thanks.
     
  2. Kdawgca

    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    I think its your ram even though you replaced them. Maybe the ram aren't seated properly or they are just bad and have you tired http://www.memtest86.com/. And i though the x1600 was 256mb deticated and 256mb hypermemory(steal from system ram) so a total of 512mb
     
  3. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    For some reason Vista has a way of mistating the available memory for graphics cards. I have the same issue on my X1600 as well...and I've read a few other threads about that as well from other users.

    BTW, it probably is your memory. Reseat it and then run that MemTest.
     
  4. Ricardo18.bnu

    Ricardo18.bnu Newbie

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    I already ran the microsoft memory diagnosting tool and nothing are found. Right now i´m making a clean install of windows vista business with vista drivers packager downloaded from acer euro website and when i´m finish I´ll make some tests with memtest86 and post the results here.

    thanks
     
  5. Ricardo18.bnu

    Ricardo18.bnu Newbie

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    Hi!

    After a clean windows vista instalation with newer drivers i still get the "first boot BSOD". I ran the memtest86 and nothing were found BUT after a "first boot BSOD" i start windows and click on "Check for solution online" button and it say that the error is comming from my video card.

    What can i do to test my video card?

    I have a ati mobile x1600. Windows is showing 128mb dedicated and 763mb shared... ??? i´m confuse! Help please!
     
  6. Ricardo18.bnu

    Ricardo18.bnu Newbie

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    I made new tests with my memory clips one by one. If i let my notebook with 1gb of ram only everything works fine, if i put 2gb then start the First Boot BSOD... i guest it´s not the video card, what could be? maindboard?