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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:11 AM (permalink)
I cant play mafia 2 for more than 10 mins without the screen going grey then hardlocking the system. This issue was happening everywhere in windows, media player, and games for a long time and you guys helped me to loosen up memory timings, and i RARELY hardlock anymore. But the issue is constant in mafia 2, what do you think would be causing this? What should i change in the bios?


 
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    Chaos_21
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    Re:Mafia 2 constant crash. Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:31 AM (permalink)
    Have you tried installing  memory modules that would run more stable with your board?

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    Re:Mafia 2 constant crash. Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:39 AM (permalink)
    Chaos_21

    Have you tried installing  memory modules that would run more stable with your board?


    working on that at the moment, gettin patriot viper.


     
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    Re:Mafia 2 constant crash. Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:18 PM (permalink)
    Does your system pass 12+ hours of prime95 or over 50-100 passes of IBT? Some games will always find the smallest instability in a system. My guess if you need to loosen the timings on the memory that much, you had memory problems. If your not able to get the listed timings, you might have a bad stick of ram. Loosening the timings might make it more stable, but not 100%.

     
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    Re:Mafia 2 constant crash. Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:24 AM (permalink)
    johnny5890

    Does your system pass 12+ hours of prime95 or over 50-100 passes of IBT? Some games will always find the smallest instability in a system. My guess if you need to loosen the timings on the memory that much, you had memory problems. If your not able to get the listed timings, you might have a bad stick of ram. Loosening the timings might make it more stable, but not 100%.


    Whats IBT? Id like to try it.


     
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    Re:Mafia 2 constant crash. Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:31 AM (permalink)
    Intel Burn Test...the latest version is 2.5, I believe. You can easily Google for it.

    That issue will probably stop immediately once you get your new RAM installed.

     
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    Re:Mafia 2 constant crash. Wednesday, September 01, 2010 5:11 PM (permalink)
    Exactly why im switching out ram jeff. haha. :)


     
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