Windows XP reboots when playing 3d games (minidumps included)

[grant]

Good afternoon all,

My computer crashes irregularly when playing 3d games. It could happen after 15 minutes, or after 90 minutes, or never after 3 hours.

My computer is:

• AMD Sempron 2800+
• Biostar 6100-M7 mobo
• 2gb ram (1gb x 2)
• Nvidia 6800gs video card

The computer will reboot itself while playing 3d games, specifically:

• BF 2
• Homeworld 2
• Civilization 4

Video card & mobo drivers/bios are the latest.
I used ramtest 1.86 and was 0 errors over 10 passes (12 hours)
Also I've run a lot of anti-virus/anti-spyware and found nothing.
I replaced the video card (used to be 6600gt) and added the 2nd gig of memory, with no change.

Can someone help me locate the problem? thanks!

 

[grant]

There are more minidumps here if you want to d/l: (they won't fit in the thread)...

www.cyberhooch.com/minidumps/minidumps2.zip

Don't worry there are no popups.

 

[cpc2004]

Hi,

All of your minidumps are crashed with bugcheck 9c with bus connection time out. The culprit maybe AMD CPU, motherboard or RAM.

BugCheck 9C, {4, 80545ff0, b2000000, 70f0f}
Owning Process 88ec13f0 Image: BF2-1.exe

 

[grant]

Thank you very much for the reply! It's sad to hear it's a hardware problem.

Are there any utils available to help isolate the component? I guess since memtest came up clean that should put ram at the bottom of the suspects list.

Since that error code sometimes shows with overheating processors I will also try to find a temperature monitor.

 

[WinDoWsMoNoPoLy]

Go to the download section and search for Sensors View. It is a temperature monitor.