Help! Memory Access Errors

[phantom505]

I recently put together a A64 3200+, Chaintech VNF4 MB, OCZ value RAM, and a Chaintech 6600GT (PCIe), and a 74GB WD 10k RPM HDD


I have been getting memory access violations (either read or write) while playing World of Warcraft and Warcraft III. I'll assume it's all 3D games, but I don't have any others installed at the moment.


I'm sort of at a loss as to what to blame. It seems just fine when I'm working on the desktop, internet browsing, etc.


Thanks for the help!

(my gut said it's the vid card, but I didn't want to RMA a perfectly good item, and I don't have another PCIe to swap with)

 

[phantom505]

Oh, and I should add there's no over clocking or anything like that.... I'm sure someone will ask. Drivers are up to date as is BIOS....etc etc

 

[Bozo Galora]

have you run memtest 86+?
Have you tried latest drivers out yesterday?
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1133
77.72 drivers have known issues.
Have you tried reinstalling chipset drivers with 6600 installed?

 

[phantom505]

I was reasonably sure I had tried different versions of the drivers. I do have 77.72 on there, just installed 77.76.

Thanks for the info, hope this helps.

 

[KutterMax]

World of Warcraft is extremely sensitive to memory. I had a set of Kingston Hyper-X that I thought was working fine, but when I got World of Warcraft last year I started getting crashes and errors while playing. After all kinds of troubleshooting, I traced the problem to my RAM (eventhough other apps weren't crashing). Running Memtest86 confirmed the problem.

I ended up pulling out the Hyper-X RAM and put in a new set of top-of-the-line Mushkin RAM. This fixed the problem and I've had no problems since. (I have recently shipped the Hyper-X RAM back to Kingston and am awaiting replacement).

HTH.

 

[phantom505]

Yep... Thanks for all the help guys.

It appears that the RAM does fail MemTest. I hadn't thought to check that. Time to send it back to OCZ. I hope they don't want both sticks.....