computer crashes when playing games

Around 12 months ago I had a problem with my computer, it was freezing up whilst gameing, games such as Fifa 2005 and Soldier Of Fortune.

ANyway a friend of mine asked me if he could borrow my ram so I lent him my ram he put it in his machine and playing soldier of fortune it crashed on his machine he removed the ram and this worked fine.

I followed suite and put 512mb of ram. So today I go to try it out put fifa 2005 on go to play it and after about 5 minutes the computer reboots!

System

CPU Type- AMD Athlon XP, 2100 MHz (12.5 x 168) 2600+

Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-7VT600(-L)

Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 256mb DDR

HDD - Maxtor 6Y080L0 (74 GB)

Occasionly I get an error message and code which I aint got a clue about so wondering if you could help me it is as follows.

Description

Source- (102)
Event ID- 1003

Error code 00000050, parameter1 f7ffffff, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 f7ffffff, parameter4 00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp

I really need help because i am out of ideas!!!!!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

Please see the reply to your pm I sent you.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

I ran the ram test and all passed with flying coulours!

I am only running on a 350w power supply and my cpu temprature seems to be at around 65c but a friend running another system his seems to run at same temprature and he has no problems.

I have included the minidump files in attachment!

Cheers this is much appreciated!

According to your minidumps, you have some kind of hardware problem.

This could be ram/video ram/L2 cache ram of cpu/psu/mobo

You will need to diagnose which hardware is faulty.

The fact that you computer has been freezing when playing games, might mean that your psu isn`t providing enough power for your system.

Start by trying a different psu.

Regards Howard :)

Cheers.

What would you say to upgradeing bios? I believe there is such thing as a bios for your graphics card?

I am going to go out and buy a 500w power supply now!

Then if it still does it i think its a new MOBO! :( could the graphics card be to powerful for the bored as it says on the box

"this mobo supports agp8x/agp 4x (1.5v) graphics card only!"

Thanks Alot just hope i can sort it!

It is a brand new PSU buts its only 350w!

Put the new POWER SUPPLY in whent all out and got myself 600watt


Ran a game and it ran like a dream!

This is very much appreciated! Thanks alot!

Going to run some more checks!

Computer is running fine just watched whole entire film on it played loads of high spec games not a problem!

I am over the moon at last i can see what my system can really do! Always had this problem with new system!

Glad to hear your problem is sorted.

Regards Howard :) :)

Hi Howard,

This problem is resolved. I would like to put an comment to help people to resolve the similar problem. One of the minidumps has the symptom of CPU_CALL_ERROR and it is relaed to hardware problem. For this case you find out PSU is the culprit. Now my record, CPU_CALL_ERROR can be caused by faulty mother board, video card and PSU.


Mini110405-02.dmp
BugCheck 50, {ffff7f7f, 0, ffff7f7f, 0}
Could not read faulting driver name
Probably caused by : hardware

Followup: MachineOwner
---------
*** Possible invalid call from bff806a5 ( dxg!DxD3dDrawPrimitives2+0xb5 )
*** Expected target bff82a6e ( dxg!DdHmgAcquireHmgrSemaphore+0x0 )

kd> !analyze -v
*************************************************************************** ****
* *
* Bugcheck Analysis *
* *
*************************************************************************** ****
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50)
Invalid system memory was referenced. This cannot be protected by try-except,
it must be protected by a Probe. Typically the address is just plain bad or it
is pointing at freed memory.
Arguments:
Arg1: ffff7f7f, memory referenced.
Arg2: 00000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation.
Arg3: ffff7f7f, If non-zero, the instruction address which referenced the bad memory
address.
Arg4: 00000000, (reserved)

Debugging Details:
------------------
Could not read faulting driver name
READ_ADDRESS: ffff7f7f

FAULTING_IP:
+ffffffffffff7f7f
ffff7f7f ?? ???

MM_INTERNAL_CODE: 0
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 2
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x50

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from bff806aa to ffff7f7f

TRAP_FRAME: b9d3dbfc -- (.trap ffffffffb9d3dbfc)
.trap ffffffffb9d3dbfc
ErrCode = 00000000
eax=e15bc008 ebx=00000000 ecx=860c8980 edx=85d1c34c esi=00153a80 edi=00000140
eip=ffff7f7f esp=b9d3dc70 ebp=b9d3dd40 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na pe nc
cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010202
ffff7f7f ?? ???
.trap
Resetting default scope

STACK_TEXT:
WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong.
b9d3dc6c bff806aa b9d3dd64 0012fa84 bf8e505f 0xffff7f7f
b9d3dd40 804d4e91 06400006 00000000 00156f1c dxg!DxD3dDrawPrimitives2+0xba
b9d3dd40 7ffe0304 06400006 00000000 00156f1c nt!KiSystemService+0xc4
0012fa94 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 SharedUserData!SystemCallStub+0x4

FAILED_INSTRUCTION_ADDRESS:
+ffffffffffff7f7f
ffff7f7f ?? ???

POSSIBLE_INVALID_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from bff806a5 to bff82a6e

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: hardware
IMAGE_NAME: hardware
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0
STACK_COMMAND: .trap ffffffffb9d3dbfc ; kb
BUCKET_ID: CPU_CALL_ERROR

Followup: MachineOwner
---------
*** Possible invalid call from bff806a5 ( dxg!DxD3dDrawPrimitives2+0xb5 )
*** Expected target bff82a6e ( dxg!DdHmgAcquireHmgrSemaphore+0x0 )

As always, thanks for the info cpc2004.

Regards Howard :)