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Epox 8KHA+ and Crucial RAM...Match made in hell?

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Micah

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I've got an Epox 8KHA+ and 256MB of Crucial PC2100. I consistently get Blue Screen of Death whenever I try to start a game. If I restart, everything runs fine...the first time. Basically, I can play 1 game per restart.

I really don't know what to blame it on, but someone suggested that Crucial ram might be the problem. Has anyone else had any problems like this?

BSOD's:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT


System:
WinXP Pro
Epox 8KHA+
Athlon XP 1600+ @ stock speed (until I figure this out)
256MB Crucial PC2100
80GB Western Digital WD800BB
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 (Kyro 2)
Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer (not 5.1)
 
I think you need to change your thread title, as it does not sound as if this is a RAM problem. Doing a quick search with Google on your error message brought up several things but they were related to an invalid call to a memory area by a program or I/O device: not the memory itself. In other words, something, (possibly the game?) is making what the OS considers an illegal request to an area of memory that is not available.
Try: Uninstalling the game, reboot, then reinstalling it. Check for the latest drivers for your video card and/or sound card. Look for conflicts in Device Manager. Try a "repair" of the XP OS. One of those could solve the trouble. YMMV of course.
 
The IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error is not a RAM problem... it's a driver problem. I'm guessing its your video card or sound card.
 
It could be anything I had that error (IRQ PART)happen to me once and it was around the same time when I had the famous Nvidia loop error,so in my case it was the Nvidia drivers,however since then I`ve upgraded my Nvidia drivers and it has been fine,so you can try updating your Kyro 2 drivers also disable all video shadowing in BIOS ,disable system bios cacheable as well.

Btw Crucial ram is excellent I use it in my Epox 8KHA+ on turbo setting with no problems,however it`s possible yours might be faulty ,Crucial will test it free of charge they did for me, or you can get another stick of ram and try that on its own.


"BSOD's:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT


That last line looks like the problem PFN_list_corrupt, read these links on that

link 1



Link 2

 
Don't knock Crucial RAM or the Epox MB just cuz you can't get your computer to work right. You problem has nothing to do with either one. Take a look at your BIOS settings for the IRQs.
 


<< Don't knock Crucial RAM or the Epox MB >>



I only titled that to get people's attention. I wanted to make sure that it wasn't the RAM before I started looking for other answers. According to most of the people here, it is not the RAM, therefore, I'll look into something else.

Micah
 
i would download memtest86 link

its a dos based program, it takes quite awhile to run but it totally checks out your ram and your whole memory subsystem.... if it doesnt error then you know your problem is not ram based
 
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