ERROR! NMI PARITY ERROR! ??

[rezzer]

hi, i was wondering if anyone had some feedback on an error i only seem to get while playing punkbuster enabled games.

my system specs are:

Tyan tiger 2460
2 x Amd xp 1600
2 x 256mb crucial Registered Ecc Ram =512mb
Ati Radeon 8500 64 mb
450 watt enermax psu
Windows xp pro

The error i recieve comes in a blue screen of death form in windows xp pro..
the error is : NMI PARITY ERROR/MEMORY PARITY ERROR ! System Halted!
please contact your hardware vendor for support.

i get this error after joining punkbuster enabled games..the game i play is americas army.
it also happened when i used to play RTCW .

ive contacted everyone from punkbuster staff to the game developers of americas army and no-one can figure it out ..they all say i have bad ram but i have no problems what so ever playing these games without punkbuster enabled.
i have no issues with lockups or random reboots or any other issues with my computer ..
the copmuter runs flawlessly except when trying to play punkbuster enabled games..

as i understand it, my ecc ram cant correct 2/4/6/8 bit errors ,and im to believe punkbuster is causing one of these types of errors..

the reason im posting here is cause i wanted to get some hardware guru's feedback on the issues ,any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

 

[bozo1]

Have you run any memory diagnostics like memtest86? Parity errors almost always mean bad RAM (or sometimes memory in need of reseating). I have seen software occasionally do bizarre stuff and generate parity errors which would be my suspect if your memory tests clean and you reseat it.

 

[rezzer]

i will run memtest86 , i ran some mem testing software about 2 weeks ago i cant remember if it was memtest86 or not but i came up clean with no errors..i will run memtest86 ..

 

[rezzer]

how do i use this memtest86 ? copy all the file to floppy and boot-up from floppy?

 

[bozo1]

Extract the zip file and run install - it'll create the floppy for you. (The disk is non-readable by Windows) Just boot from it and let it run overnight or so. If it doesn't find any problems, I'd say you're looking at a software problem. Maybe those games don't like dualies or something.