System hang especially games !*resolved*

[DaveBC]

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Games hang especially Generals and Zero Hour. I'm using 2x 512mb GeIL PC 3200 Ultra Platinum in slot 1 and 3, 166 mhz 2=5=2= 1T, 1.6v. Bios code 52 "Test all memory (clear all memory to 0)" *i'm cluless* because memtest runs fine no errors. BTW 3dmark05 hangs during CPU test. Here is more info for you guys.

Windows XP Home Fresh Install. Here is the installation order:
1. raid driver
2. xp
3. sp2
4. mboard drivers
5. vid drivers
6. audio drivers (on board audio disabled in bios).

Here is the system:

EP-8kda3j Rev 2.x bios 1/5/05, Nforce 5.10 drivers
A64 3400 clawhammer stock clock
The above mentioned ram
PNY GeForce 6800GT 66.93 stock clock NV 5 Cooling
Sound Blaster X gamer
2x 30gig Maxtor Diamond Max ata 133 raid 0
1x 160gig Maxtor Diamond Max IDE ata 133 storage
1x dual layer DVD etc.

Rivatuner reports vid core 56C idle and 65C load
USDM reports CPU 39C idle 45 load Thermaltake Heatpipe w/80mm fan mod
Voltages:
Vcore 1.6
Vagp 1.520
chipset 1.616
+5V 5.135
VDIMM 2.640

Here are some PSU specs too:

Aspire 500W:
3.3V 28A
+5V 30A
+12V 34A
-5V 0.3A
-12V 0.8A
+5VSB 2.0A
+3.3V & +5V combines load 200W
+3.3V, +5V & 12V combines load 480W

Event Viewer: "Application Hang catagory 101"

Zero Hour Crash Log:
Release Crash at Fri Jan 28 12:05:39 2005
; Reason Uncaught Exception in GameEngine::update

Last error:
Exception is access violation
WinMain at 401700
Error code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Description: The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.
Access address:00000064 was read from.

Stack Dump:
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x005D4813

Details:
Register dump...
Eip:005D4813 Esp:0012F9F4 Ebp:00000001
Eax:00000000 Ebx:0B31202C Ecx:0B31200C
Edx:00000000 Esi:0B31200C Edi:0B31200C
EFlags:00010246
CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000
EIP bytes dump...

Bytes at CS:EIP (005D4813) : 8B 4A 64 74 65 83 78 08 17 75 5F 39 8E 98 01 00 00 75 28 8A 86 F4 01 00 00 84 C0 0F 84 D3 01 00

This machine should rock... Hope you guys can help me.

Thanks for your time.

Dave

 

[Matthias99]

Did you run memtest with all the tests enabled, and let it run overnight?

Also, give Prime95 a shot.

You most likely have either unstable RAM or an unstable CPU. Hard to tell what without switching parts out. Did you try running with one stick of RAM at a time?

 

[DaveBC]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Did you run memtest with all the tests enabled, and let it run overnight?

Also, give Prime95 a shot.

You most likely have either unstable RAM or an unstable CPU. Hard to tell what without switching parts out. Did you try running with one stick of RAM at a time?

Thanks for the reply Mathias, coincinencidentally I have been running prime 95 for the last 3 or 4 hours. No errors. Yes the problem persists with any compbination of single DIMMS in any of the three slots. I'll set up memtest 86 for an all nighter tonite. It ran for arund 6 hours last test tho. I noticed another thing odd, Open GL games just "blink off" back to desktop. No windows error messages or nothing. When it hangs all I can do is hit reset. But windows never offers any error reporting. And error reporting is enabled. I managed a LOTR campain by saving every few minutes. But that is getting old. Other suggestions are surely welcome.

Thanks to all of you.

 

[DaveBC]

Originally posted by: DaveBC

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Did you run memtest with all the tests enabled, and let it run overnight?

Also, give Prime95 a shot.

You most likely have either unstable RAM or an unstable CPU. Hard to tell what without switching parts out. Did you try running with one stick of RAM at a time?

Thanks for the reply Mathias, coincinencidentally I have been running prime 95 for the last 3 or 4 hours. No errors. Yes the problem persists with any compbination of single DIMMS in any of the three slots. I'll set up memtest 86 for an all nighter tonite. It ran for arund 6 hours last test tho. I noticed another thing odd, Open GL games just "blink off" back to desktop. No windows error messages or nothing. When it hangs all I can do is hit reset. But windows never offers any error reporting. And error reporting is enabled. I managed a LOTR campain by saving every few minutes. But that is getting old. Other suggestions are surely welcome.

Thanks to all of you.

Ok, I ran memtest all night and prime 95 torture test all day while I was at work. Guess what..... no errors. AARRRRGGGHH!! I guess that only leaves graphics and audio. This card worked perfectly in my nforce 2 board with the same ram too! I have already tried removing the sound card and using driver cleaner to remove all creative audio files. Still only hangs with games and 3dmark5 CPU test 1 with the balloon ship. This has to be a a software or configuration prob. But I'm running out of driver sets to try. Any other Ideas are welcome.