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    Whoa, my T400 just pooped its memory out?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Pengs, Sep 5, 2008.

  1. Pengs

    Pengs Notebook Enthusiast

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    Here is what happened. I was playing Call of Duty 4 for about an hour or two, minding my own business, when suddenly my computer crashed to some sort of BSOD and went on about how something happened and that it was dumping physical memory somewhere or somehow.

    I remember somebody mentioning that memory usage or something like that constantly increases with the dedicated card. Well point is what in the world just happened?
     
    Pengs, Sep 5, 2008
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    yn1997 Notebook Guru

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    Its weird , I've seen a similar thread like this here but I've never met this. Tried some games like Warcraft3 NeedOfSpeed the problem you mention above never happened to me.
     
    yn1997, Sep 5, 2008
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    The 'Dumping physical memory' is a normal BSOD message. If that happens again, you can write down the error code it gives you and Google it for possibly narrowing down the exact problem.

    Are you overclocking your CPU or GPU at all? If so, back them down a bit. I'd also check temps of both of those if I were you. They might be overheating, especially since it happened while gaming.
     
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    jaredy Notebook Virtuoso

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    Look at event viewer and look up the error for the BSOD.
     
    jaredy, Sep 5, 2008
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    hi Pengs,

    See my thread at
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=294247
    I have posted this problem there.

    I think we have to wait until Lenovo release a newer version of ATI driver. You can select to use HD3470 only in BIOS, then the memory issue won't trouble you any more.
     
    hereiam436, Sep 5, 2008
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  6. Pengs

    Pengs Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well isn't this fun. I hate to not have updated this in so long but... well... even when the HD3470 is only set, it still BSODs. I guess I gotta' call tomorrow and figure something out. I just can't risk sending it in because I am required to have a laptop for half my classes in college and I don't have the ability to go even a week without one...
     
    Pengs, Sep 16, 2008
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  7. The Fire Snake

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    Did you try running memtest86+ on the memory to make sure it is ok?
     
    The Fire Snake, Sep 16, 2008
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