Serious problems - please help!

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Vormulac

This is a long one guys, but please have a look as I'm at my wit's end
here!


I have been getting numerous bluescreen crashes, mostly with the error
codes 0x0000008e and 0x1000008e. I replaced my motherboard with an Asus
A7N8X-deluxe and they reduced in frequency, but are still occuring.


This week, however, I replaced my ram with a stick of PC2700 from
another machine which functions perfectly. The 0x8e errors have now
stopped, only to be replaced by a whole host of new and exciting errors:



0x00000050

0x10000050

0x000000d1

0x0000007f



This leads me to believe that my old ram (PC2100, I stick 256Mb, 1 stick
512Mb) was either faulty or just disliked by the motherboard, but what
could be causing these new crashes?


It happens mostly during games, but I have had the occasional crash in
other applications. The games are typically Soldier of Fortune2,
Freelancer, Steel Panthers2, BattleRealms, Diablo2, C&C Generals and
Ghost Master.

There is an additional issue that I have just noticed, when attempting
to install a couple of new games, the pc crashes and reboots the moment
the installation finishes, leaving no trace of the newly installed
program in the program list, and attempting to uninstall it produces a
log error.



I am using Windows XP Pro, and my configuration is as follows:



AMD XP1800+ CPU

Asus A7N8X-Deluxe v2.0 gold edition

Asus Geforce3 Ti200

Currently 1 x 512Mb generic PC2700 DDR

NEC DV-5800C DVD drive,

Samsung SW-208B CDRW


Thanks for any help you can give me!
 
I have been told my technician at work that the latest Asus boards don't
like it when you have use single-sided and double-sided ram together...
from your post i cannot see wether this is true for you, but seems the usage
of ss & ds ram can give quite a few probs ... so maybe you could look into
that, or try running yer system with only 1 ram module at the time to see if
1 of them is the culprit, or as i said the combination is...
hth

greets Johan
 
Check IRQ Conflicts particularly IRQ sharing with your video card.

It's getting too expensive to just go out and try some other memory these
days. I think the difference in errors has less to do with the memory than
they are a result of the different modules. Having said that, I'm pretty
much stumped.

One thing worth trying is to just take everything apart, wipe the hard drive
and start fresh. I know it's usually the very last thing anyone wants to do
but It could save you tons of time in the long run.

HTH
 
Well, what are the temp. of the CPU & MB?

Moreover, how's the condition of your hdd? Is it new? and are the jumpers
(master/slave) set properly?
 
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