hm, BSOD problems

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Ok, I've been getting some irritating stop errors lately...

 

 

 

First one happened when the system was idle...

 

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x0000000A (0xFA3F3CBC, 0x00000001, 0x00000000, 0x8050298A)

 

 

 

I ram memtest on my ram (2GB Dual Channel Geil DDR 400MHz):

 

1. One stick at a time

 

2. Paired (single channel)

 

3. Paired (dual channel)

 

 

 

Got no errors on any of them.

 

 

 

 

 

And the next one also tends to happen while idle....

 

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 0x0000004E (0x0000008F, 0x0005A4FF, 0x0004F3B7, 0x00000000)

 

 

 

Generally something botching the ram access or bad physical ram. And I let memtest run 5 times on each test and got 0 errors following #1.

 

 

 

But here's the kicker:

 

 

 

When I'm playing memory-intensive games (battlefield 2, half-life 2 and Oblivion) I randomly get blue screens. It's a BSOD, just with no error message.

 

 

 

 

 

I've talked around and I have two solutions:

 

 

 

1. CPU over-heating (AMD A64 3500+)

 

2. Problem with my video card (ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb)

 

 

 

I've checked my cpu temperature right after i've gotten an error (in bios) and it has never been over 25c. Although I'll give it and it's fan a clean once I make this post.

 

 

 

The VGA can't be overheating since I have a Zalman ZM80D-HP on it, wonder if there's anything I can do to check it out more thourghly?

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Ok, I cleaned the cpu heatsink (damn there was a lot of dust on it) and also put some new thermal paste down.

 

 

 

 

 

And for a testing measure, I'm going to keep running the system with dual channel disabled.

 

I can live without dual channel optimization if that's the problem.

[Chris]

I'd have a chat to GEIL, most memory manufacturers do lifetime warranties.

 

 

 

I know Kingston, Corsair and OCZ do.

 

 

 

Get it replaced and test it out, if you still have problems at least you know it's not the RAM and you can have dual channel enabled. :mrgreen:

[IceBlackIce]

Ive seen that PFN error before...once it was a bad board and another time a hdd.

[Cruiser]

First one happened when the system was idle...

 

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x0000000A (0xFA3F3CBC, 0x00000001, 0x00000000, 0x8050298A)

 

 

 

I've seen this one on 2 of my systems.

 

 

 

The first was my mom's Compaq and it would randomly BSOD with that error (different memory locations) while idle. It also did it once while being used. I did a fresh install of XP and it all went away. Same hardware, same BIOS settings, just Windows throwing a fit about something.

 

 

 

The second was on my current AMD box. It happened every so often when I would be playing HL2 and no other time. Turned out to be bad video drivers or the card itself. Did a driver upgrade and it never happened again, but have since changed to a newer AGP card. I never really had a chance to stress test it after the driver upgrade. :?

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Well, I was running the system in single channel since I made the second post, up until about 6am (puts it at about 4 hours) and was playing bf2 for the majority of that time and got no crashes. I'm putting it down to a parity bit error unless i see otherwise.