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Well, after much much much testing and research looking for a cause to my new computer crashing only during games. Everything worked fine in normal windows and even Source Engine games worked (see Counter Strike: Source). I thought it was maybe a bad video card, or maybe the video card didnt work well with the Dual Core 3800+ processor. I even had the idea that maybe the video card wasnt getting enough power, so I replaced the 425 Watt powersupply with a 500 watt Antec power supply. The problems still occured.
I ran a memtest with no errors. I installed and uninstalled an add on audio card, then used and didnt use the on board audio card. Eventually I removed 3 of the RAM sticks… and guess what… the game worked. no way. I tested it before with 2 ram sticks and games didnt work. This is good news. I tested each ram stick (4 total = 2 GB of ram) and each stick worked fine individually. I was happy I figured it out. I dont know what I figured out, but I knew how to fix it. I went to a TigerDirect store (there arent many and their customer service blows) and bought 2 sticks of Geil 1GB Ram (with blue heatsink cover looking thing). I stuck the new sticks of ram in and viola’, the games work and they dont crash. I also put in 2 of the 512MB sticks giving my machine 3GB of ram.
Battlefield 2 and Red Orchestra run flawlessly now.
System specs: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core Processor with upgraded Thermaltake Big Typhoon Cooling Fan with Heatsink — DFI nF4-DAGF Mobo — XFX Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card with upgraded ZALMAN Heatsink Fan — 2GB of Geil RAM and 1GB of G.SKILL RAM — Huge Acer Black 20″ Widescreen LCD Monitor — Black Coolmax Case — 2 - 80GB SATA drives — 2 - 250GB RAID 1 Storage drives
