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New RAM stick: Bf2 BSOD

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JoshuaCalvert

Junior Member

I'm currently using:

Windows XP Pro SP2
AthlonXP 3200
1GB of RAM (2x Kingmax "Turbo" 512Mb 3200 Fast DDR)
ASUS A7N8X-E mobo
ATI Radeon X800 XL Turbo


My problem is that I recently purchased 1x Kingmax "Turbo" 512Mb 3200 Fast DDR and it gives me BSOD when playing Battlefield 2 but it only happens after a certain length of time playing.

I've switched the RAM sticks around in their slots, left a good stick out and used 1GB of RAM with the dodgy stick, and it still brings about the error.

However, I recently returned it to aria and their engineers could find no fault with it.

My dilemma is this; I don't really want it back but I do want to up my memory to 1.5GB.

Can someone explain possible causes for BF2 to only cause errors and/or highlight any issues with BIOS/mobo settings which could cause this.

(Not sure if my mobo can do the "performance" settings with all 3 RAM slots filled)
 
Probably something is overheating. Could be your cpu, memory, whatever. Do some burn-in testing with memtest/prime/superpi. Do a search if you need more info.
 
Well, my CPU runs at 49-56c and my system temperature is 28c after playing BF2 for a couple of hours under 1GB of mem......

I'll be accepting the memory module back and will run a memtest asap.
 
It would be nice to know which bluescreen bug check code you got.

That said, it could be your motherboard, the timings you used with the memory and/or your PSU...

Also note that memtest86 isn't just one memory test, it is actually a whole test suite containing eight or nine tests. I've seen memory that fails with test number 7 and some that would only fail with test 8. I.e. some patterns will irk the memory while others won't.

Thus memory that would seem just fine with one set of applications would fail miserably with others.

I had a very picky Epox board once that would frequently freeze. Although one memory stick gave errors with memtest, it probably wasn't the memory (it tested fine on a P4 the store claimed). The whole system was unstable no matter what PSU, memory, video card or CPU I plugged into it. Changing the motherboard (to another nForce2 based one) helped 100%. So blaming the memory isn't always the way to go. (but quite often is 🙂 )
 
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