Alas I have failed

[Kev32]

I'd like to thank cpc and others for the great help unfortunately my PC is still a tired old wreck. It was working perfectly since last week friday when I changed the RAM until but a few seconds ago when I got yet another blue screen. I have uploaded the minidump but I fear that it is useless....I guess I'll just pay the £50 to get it looked at by a technician.

The BSOD is exactly the same 0x1000008e (0xc0000005....) and blames the ati2dvag.dll driver.

{EDIT} I have just updated my ATI drivers to 5.8, this may help, i don't know. Something unusual I have noticed is that in my startup list I have a KernelFaultCheck.....

 

[cpc2004]

Maybe your new RAM is incompatible with the motherboard. Check the hardware specification of your motherboard and verify whether it is compatible with your new RAM.

 

[Kev32]

OK Checked RAM, no it appears that Infineon styled RAM is fine. I've sent off the 2 bugged modules to get analysed by the technicians who I bought it from. They will send me some new RAM free if they find errors.

 

[Kev32]

All I can say is that these errors are weird. They happen so randomly, sometimes not for 2 weeks then constantly each day..then gone again. Games run so sporadically it's weird. They'll work fine for the first 7 days then not work, I'll cry try play them again in 2 days and they'll work perfectly.

{EDIT} Well I got a new BSOD, labbeled Page_Fault_In_NoN_Paged_Area labelling ati2dvag as the driver to blame (as usual). Got this error code :

10000050, {80000000...}

Will attach the minidump although I'm taking the PC to a specialist tomorow.

{EDIT} Just received ANOTHER BSOD but back at the original values of 0x1000008e {0xc0000005). Will post the minidumps. At least now I know this cannot be a memory problem. The only other hardware I got in my PC is an ABIT KV7 mobo, Radeon 9800 PRO GFX card and a AMD Athlon XP3200 CPU.

{EDIT}So I've tried with a new GFX card (Nvidia) which I know works and RAM which I KNOW works. I've also removed my modem along with my drives yet still it crashes. That singles it down to PSU/Mobo/CPU...