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^Ben
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29 Nov 2004, 12:14am

memtest.

With the recent memory errors with HL2 some people have been running into, most of the time it's the memory at fault but people don't know how to run memtest to check their memory.

Maybe some kind of guide?
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primesuspect
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29 Nov 2004, 12:50am
Good idea. I'm on it.
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^Ben
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29 Nov 2004, 12:58am
Once you do it I can start posting it on the major HL2 sites
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30 Nov 2004, 1:59am
Make sure to indicate that there is a CDROM ISO download as well, I find that much easier to deal with than a floppy for boot-up.

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30 Nov 2004, 5:10pm
Good idea, Dexter, especially since folks who play HL2 play it from a DVD or CD, right??? And the simpler to use memtest is from the self-booting-and-launching CD iso. The only things I can think of against this, is that some gamers might be on AOL or dialup for internet, or not know how to burn an ISO 9960 type CD as versus a data CD of the ISO file. So, a howto about how to use Nero 6.0 to burn a bootable CD from an ISO file might also be useful.
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TheBaron
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30 Nov 2004, 5:25pm
thats not entirely correct, a lot of people preloaded it on steam, which means that it was downloaded. although at this point i think most people have cd burners
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GrayFox
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1 Dec 2004, 4:23am
The majority of the lag issues when entering a new room in hl2 and doom 3 are ram timeing or someones cranked there agp apature size way high (very bad idea) personaly i wish agp apature size didnt exsist it would improve proformence alot for the short term on highend cards
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1 Dec 2004, 6:09am
Guide is written, submitted to mediaman for editing and posting
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TheLostSwede
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2 Dec 2004, 10:08pm
I'ts actually pretty easy to implement memtest in the bios as long as you have a fairly new mainboard with a 4mb bios chip. No cd or floppy is needed that way.
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3 Dec 2004, 3:38am
Memtest86+ Guide

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3 Dec 2004, 4:15am
I don't see my name mentioned :P

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primesuspect
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3 Dec 2004, 4:25am
better?
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3 Dec 2004, 12:29pm
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