hey,

just wondered if n e 1 could help me please. I have a new computer with 2.4ghz core duo processor, 256mb Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS, 2 GB RAM and 700W Power supply, which is capable of running pretty much any game according to minimum system requirements. However every time I play a game it will suddenly and very randomly give me a blue screen with error message about virtual memory or something along the lines of that and my computer will restart.

Has any one got any ides why this could be happening?

Thanks in advance

diddydowsett

Hello diddy, welcome to PCHF.

Can you take a look a the BSOD's link on my signature. It describes how to post a dump/log of what the error you received, and what was going on at the time. A couple of these logs would be great.

please find attached dump file

thanks

pleae find attached .dmp files as requested

thanks

Hey diddy,

I'm showing memory corruption on all of those logs, it looks very very much like you have a faulty stick of memory there.

You can use memtest to test for faulty memory,

- If you have a floppy drive and a spare floppy disk, please download: http://www.memtest86.com/memtest34a.zip
- If not, please download, unzip and use nero to burn this image: http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.4a.iso.zip

The faulting address appears to be quite far in, so memtest may take some time. For the same reason, it wouldn't suprise me if those problems were occuring when your playing games, or when you have a lot of apps open (actually utilizing that much memory).

Another way to test memory (assuming it's only one faulty stick of memory) would be to remove one at a time and test.

thanks so much, you have been a great help, i will try your suggestion and let ya know how it goes. if it is that then i will buy some new ram.

thanks again

No prob's diddy. Will keep this thread open for a while until you post back.