2 related problems

[caralampio]

While playing games I have experienced blue screens of death that mention a problem with ati3duag.dll. That of course suggest a problem with my ati X1650 card. If anybody knows something about that specific problem, any suggestions are welcome. I have scoured the internet and I have found dozens of posts mentioning the problem but no clear solutions.

The other related problem. One of the suggestions is that I test my memory. For that I downloaded Windows Memory Diagnostic. I made a CD using Roxio Easy CD creator as instructed with the image (never had done this before). However, when I try to boot from the disk, all I get is a black screen. What I am doing is: I place the CD in the drive (I have tried both in D which is a DVD-ROM and E which is a CD-RW). I power on, punch F12 which gives me options, I select USB or onboard CD ROM and hit enter, nothing happens (except the menu freezes and I have to turn the computer off).

I also tried hitting F2, going into setup, changing the bootup order, but when I set it to boot first from an onboard or USB CD ROM, I get only the black screen with a flashing DOS cursor.

When I try to see the contents of the CD, it shows empty (see hidden files enabled), although properties does show it having contents with 600 kb size.

I've never made or used bootable CD's, I wonder in what step I am doing something wrong. Tutorial-like help would be welcome.

My computer is a Dell 9150 Win XP without a floppy drive.

[wickedadmin]

While playing games I have experienced blue screens of death that mention a problem with ati3duag.dll. That of course suggest a problem with my ati X1650 card. If anybody knows something about that specific problem, any suggestions are welcome. I have scoured the internet and I have found dozens of posts mentioning the problem but no clear solutions.

The other related problem. One of the suggestions is that I test my memory. For that I downloaded Windows Memory Diagnostic. I made a CD using Roxio Easy CD creator as instructed with the image (never had done this before). However, when I try to boot from the disk, all I get is a black screen. What I am doing is: I place the CD in the drive (I have tried both in D which is a DVD-ROM and E which is a CD-RW). I power on, punch F12 which gives me options, I select USB or onboard CD ROM and hit enter, nothing happens (except the menu freezes and I have to turn the computer off).

I also tried hitting F2, going into setup, changing the bootup order, but when I set it to boot first from an onboard or USB CD ROM, I get only the black screen with a flashing DOS cursor.

When I try to see the contents of the CD, it shows empty (see hidden files enabled), although properties does show it having contents with 600 kb size.

I've never made or used bootable CD's, I wonder in what step I am doing something wrong. Tutorial-like help would be welcome.

My computer is a Dell 9150 Win XP without a floppy drive.

I'm not sure if "Windows Memory Diagnostic" can run on a CD. I've always used it on a floppy or by using Barts Ultimate boot disk which is on a CD, but it emulates a floppy since it has a bunch of other tools as well. Try using Barts ultimate boot disk.

[Boris]

I'm not sure if "Windows Memory Diagnostic" can run on a CD.

According to this it can :)

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

To run Windows Memory Diagnostic, you must first set up Windows Memory Diagnostic on a 3.5-inch floppy disk or CD-ROM.

Go to the directory where you saved the Windows Memory Diagnostic executable file, mtinst.exe.

Double-click mtinst.exe to start Windows Memory Diagnostic Setup. Depending on your security settings, the File Download dialog box might appear when you run mtinst.exe. If it appears, click Open to start Windows Memory Diagnostic Setup. Other security dialog boxes might also appear. This can happen, for example, if you try to install Windows Memory Diagnostic from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) shared folder. These dialog boxes are related to your security settings and not to Windows Memory Diagnostic. If you experience problems when you are trying to install Windows Memory Diagnostic, either be sure to run Mtinst.exe from your local computer, or review your security settings and the documentation included in your version of Windows.

Do either of the following:

Click Create Startup Disk to install Windows Memory Diagnostic on a floppy disk.

Select the floppy disk drive that you want to use from the list provided.

Insert a formatted floppy disk into this drive and then click Create. When the installation is complete, the Success dialog box will appear.

Or, click Save CD Image to Disk if you want to create a CD-ROM that you can use to start your computer.

Select a location where you want to save the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9660 image and then click Save. When the file has been saved, the Success dialog box will appear.

For more information about creating a CD-ROM that you can boot from, see the Note at the end of this section.

Restart your computer with the disk on which you installed Windows Memory Diagnostic (either the floppy or CD-ROM drive).

Important

In the boot sequence, the drive with the Windows Memory Diagnostic disk must precede any other devices on which there is a bootable program, such as a hard disk on which Windows is installed. You can configure the boot sequence in the BIOS settings. On most computers, the default boot sequence includes the floppy drive. For more information about configuring the boot sequence, see the documentation for your motherboard.

Note

If you want to create a CD-ROM that you can start your computer from, you must use additional software to create this CD-ROM from the ISO 9660 image, which is named Windiag.iso. To create this CD-ROM from the image, you can use the Cdburn.exe utility, which is provided as part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. Instructions for downloading and installing these tools are available at the Microsoft Web site(http://www.microsoft.com/). Instructions for using Cdburn.exe are included in the download package. In addition, you must have a CD-ROM drive that can write to CD-ROMs. These drives are typically called CD-R or CD-RW drives. Your CD-ROM drive must also support CD-ROMs that you can boot from. Consult the documentation for your CD-ROM drive for more information.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

If I were in your situation, I would first of all make sure that you have the latest drivers for your hardware.