[King_sloth]

well, there is not a make or model its just one that i put together over about 4 months
Cpu: amd athlon 64 3500
mobo: MSI K8N NEO 2 platinum
Graphics: Nvidia EvGA 6800 ultra (agp)
sound: creative Soundblaster audigy 2 plainum ex
OS: Winodows xp home sp2
ram: 4x512
HDD: SATA (3 gb/s) western digital 250 GB, 120 gb ide

[King_sloth]

My operating system is on the Sata (e: drive) would reformatting and starting from scratch help?

[madmonkey]

OK, so it does look like two seperate problems.

Just a thought, can you make sure the power cable for your HDD that you have Battlefield installed is not brached off and shared with anything else?

Also, if you can see "Memory Caching" in your BIOS, disable it.

I also read somewhere that the KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M error can be caused by faulty RAM. I don't see how in this case but it wouldn't hurt to check just in case, and completely rule out hardware problems if you decide to reinstall:

- If you have a floppy drive and a spare floppy disk, please download: http://www.memtest86.com/memt32.zip

- If not, please download, unzip and use nero to burn this image: http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.2.iso.zip

[King_sloth]

My Sata drive (that bf2142 was installed on) was on a sting of power connectors, now it is not.

I ran memtest86+ last night for 10 hours 14 passes, no errors

After switching the power cables i again tried to play BF2142, i got a good 2 rounds in and the the graphics started to go weird, i could no longer see anything but the background and my weapon, no hud was showing. I exited the server, then exited the game. upon closing out and catching a glimpse of my desktop... BSOD. (this was after i switched to a single power cable)

I did not see anything by that or similar name to memory caching could it be called something else?

again the minidump is attached. Hey if we... i mean you cant figue this out 45 minutes of BF2142 is better than nothing

[madmonkey]

Na, if it's not under Memory Caching, don't worry. We have ruled everything else out, it has to be a driver issue now. I only have one more suggestion, can you try this driver: WinXP/2k 32-bit - (81.85)

[King_sloth]

Well, I just got done playing BF2142 for about 2 hours and no crash! I did not install the 81.85 yet. I think I am going to wait and see if they have stopped. Next bsod I am going to install that driver.