Moose1974 Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 My system was fine for about a year since the day I built it but it has now become unstable. I get random blue screens with the message "Page Fault Found In A Non Paged Area". Programs take over 30 seconds to load after clicking the shortcut. When playing CS:Source, it crashes and I get the message "The instruction at 0x24179b4b referenced memory at 0x00e72ed0. The memory could not be read. Click ok to terminate the program". I thought my system was infected with either a virus or spyware so I formatted the hard drive and installed a fresh copy of WinXP Pro. I installed all the latest patches and made sure the BIOS was up to date. I called Corsair tech and the technician went though the memory seetings with me and upped the VDIMM up +.2V. After doing all that, I put my system though it's normal use of playing CS:Source and surfing the net. I still get the same errors. I do not overclock at all. I ran Memtest86 3.2 with 2 sticks installed in dual channel mode and it passed with no errors. I then ran it again with only 1 stick installed and it also produced no errors. I swapped sticks and reran the test again and it produced no errors. Could it be the RAM? Here is my system specs. http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.aspx?rigid=6113 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 18, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 18, 2005 That would suggest a driver and or seervice pack issue. If you had failing memory you would not get through the install of the O.S. Please talk to the makers of this application that is causing this error as its most likely a bug in there software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose1974 Posted May 18, 2005 Author Share Posted May 18, 2005 That would suggest a driver and or seervice pack issue. If you had failing memory you would not get through the install of the O.S. Please talk to the makers of this application that is causing this error as its most likely a bug in there software. I did contact Valve about my CS:Source issue and they pointed me to this. http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=291&p_created=1101944307 The very 1st sentence is what caused me to suspect the memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 18, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 18, 2005 If the system is passing http://www.memtest.org then it's likely some other issue, but I will say this, every time a new driver and service pack comes out there are a few games that prove to be troublesome and this game and been a pain all along the watch tower so to speak. I would suggest testing the system with some other applications and try to verify its not the hardware and keep checking there site and or forum for new updates and for other users that might be having the same issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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