computer crashes when playing games

[nick_simpson17]

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!

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

Please see the reply to your pm I sent you.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

 

[nick_simpson17]

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!

 

[howard_hopkinso]

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

 

[nick_simpson17]

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!

 

[nick_simpson17]

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!

 

[nick_simpson17]

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!

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Glad to hear your problem is sorted.

Regards Howard

 

[cpc2004]

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 )

 

[howard_hopkinso]

As always, thanks for the info cpc2004.

Regards Howard