so i have a couple of problems lately my pc has been running slow and my fan speeds have gotten very loud, i thought i needed more thermal paste so i applied some. ever since i did that most of my games will load then freezes about half way only a few games run but are extremely laggy now.
msi 760gm-p25(fx)
fx 6300 3.5ghz
radeon r9 290 4g
4g ddr3 ram
1tb hhd
500w power supply
never had any of these issues until a couple days ago and i could run most my games maxed at 60 fps. I also messed with my bios alil but ended up setting them back to default, if anyone can provide anything helpful you'd be a life saver
ram comes in sticks that are inserted in DIMM slots the ram slots on the motherboard
4GB is either one stick of 4GB or two sticks of 2GB
Your motherboard has TWO ram slots
so more than likely 2 x 2GB
It appears to me that either one is dislodged - any chance this was done when moving cables etc to get to processor
OR you have cooked a ram stick
Sometimes occurs when the graphics card overhangs a stick of ram
You should open the case check the ram seating
DO you know how?
Go to Control Panel
resource monitor
press Windows +R, type Resmon.exe in the Open text box, and press Enter. In the Resource Monitor user interface, select the Memory tab
what please does it show re memory
on the allocations
hardware reserved
In use
modified
standby
free
and then underneath
available
cached
total
installed
a screenshot would be very useful - open resource monitor and see my next post for screenshot
The error lies in the amount that is hardware reserved
It is far too much
I suspect that this originates from the BIOS settings
The chipset on the motherboard
AMD760G has integrated graphics
Presumably you are connected to the actual card the radeon r9 290 4g
and NOT to both that and the integrated
I think that in BIOS the integrated graphics have been allocated memory
I am signing off NOW I am in the UK
if you have not managed to solve it or someone else does not come in to assist
I will be back Online about 1900 hrs UK time
Good luck with it
NB That by the way is why it is showing hard faults if you look at the resource monitor right hand side lower graph
Hard faults ate not faults but windows using the hard disk paging file as ram
Re your last post 37 SORRY
I have to go.
you check settings in BIOS firmware
|That is where you went when you said you changed them
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