Just yesterday, after doing a fresh install of XP, I installed Halflife 2 to benchmark my new system. After the install completed, and all of the Steam updates were done, I fired up the game only to get a PAGEFAULT_IN_NON_PAGEFAULT_ARE bsod. It did this every time I fired up the game, right after the Valve logo (during the main menu load up). I researched this bsod message and narrowed it down to possibly having a bad stick of RAM. I'm running (2)512mb DDR-2 pc5400 sticks.
So, I took one stick out to test which stick might be causing this, and it fired up just fine. I put that stick back in and removed the other stick, and booted up just fine and the game loaded just fine with only the second stick in as well. So, both sticks seem to be good, and it sounded to me like the mainboard was having a problem with just that first mem slots. Either that, or for some reason the 2 sticks don't like to run on the same mainboard without causing some kind of problem? So I stuck both sticks in the opposite mem slots to see if it was just my first mem slot that was out of wack, and it worked fine with both sticks in the opposing slots. The game boots up just fine now.
I was also having problems running F.E.A.R, as the game would get very choppy at times, and my only conclusion for that would be that I'm not running enough RAM. It did not do this before, however, when I first set up the system last week. I *think* I might have a bad stick of RAM, but i'm not sure which one, since both of them work just find when there's only a single stick on the mainboard, and it also works fine when both sticks are in slots 2 and 4 instead of slots 1 and 3. Would this be bad memory, or bad memory slots on the mainboard? Also, is there any kind of app out there I can test my memory with, to see if one of the sticks aren't responding properly causing the pagefaul bsod?
So, I took one stick out to test which stick might be causing this, and it fired up just fine. I put that stick back in and removed the other stick, and booted up just fine and the game loaded just fine with only the second stick in as well. So, both sticks seem to be good, and it sounded to me like the mainboard was having a problem with just that first mem slots. Either that, or for some reason the 2 sticks don't like to run on the same mainboard without causing some kind of problem? So I stuck both sticks in the opposite mem slots to see if it was just my first mem slot that was out of wack, and it worked fine with both sticks in the opposing slots. The game boots up just fine now.
I was also having problems running F.E.A.R, as the game would get very choppy at times, and my only conclusion for that would be that I'm not running enough RAM. It did not do this before, however, when I first set up the system last week. I *think* I might have a bad stick of RAM, but i'm not sure which one, since both of them work just find when there's only a single stick on the mainboard, and it also works fine when both sticks are in slots 2 and 4 instead of slots 1 and 3. Would this be bad memory, or bad memory slots on the mainboard? Also, is there any kind of app out there I can test my memory with, to see if one of the sticks aren't responding properly causing the pagefaul bsod?
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