computer keeps crashing after playing Bioshock, memory module error?

[drunkenmunky]

My computer keeps crashing when loading some programs or having too many windows open in Internet Explorer.
This started happening yesterday when my computer crashed while playing BioShock. I am half way through the game and have never had any problems running it before. I run the game on maximum settings in Windows XP SP.
But since the crash my computer now won't run anything that uses a lot of memory. it gives me some memory module errors - out of memory or something.
I have 3Gb of memory.

My specs (copied from EVEREST report file):

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3500+
Motherboard Name Abit AN8 SLI / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI (2 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4 SLI, AMD Hammer
System Memory 3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (01/19/06)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (320 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
Monitor ViewSonic VX2025w Series [20" LCD] (Q6Y060600615)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative SB X-Fi XtremeMusic/Platinum Sound Card

Storage:
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Storage Controller SCSI/RAID Host Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive ST3200822A (200 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:8x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:40x/32x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
Optical Drive XL4563I LLJ712V SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive XL4563I LLJ712V SCSI CdRom Device
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 190771 MB (111063 MB free)
Total Size 186.3 GB (108.5 GB free)

Input:
Keyboard Logitech HID-Compliant Keyboard
Keyboard PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse HID-compliant Mouse
Mouse Logitech HID-compliant Cordless Mouse
Mouse Logitech HID-compliant Touch Pad Mouse
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Game Controller Microsoft PC-joystick driver


Does anybody have any ideas why my PC might be crashing? I can no longer play BioShock or any other game or even load PhotoShop, it just restarts.
I assume it has something to do with the memory but I can't figure out what to do.
Please help!

 

[Cyber Hamster]

you could try using one stick of memory at a time to rule out faulty Ram, or use memtest to check them.Over things that you could try are :-

make sure you are not infected with a virus/spyware.. try an online virus scanner ether the one on nortons website or trend micros house call.

Could also be your PSU if you can get hold of known good one try that.

make sure you have checked your harddrive for errors as it could be failing..

One last thing is your system overclocked? as this could also be causing it to a) overheat or b) just be unstable

 

[drunkenmunky]

Thanks for your reply. I ran memtest and it detected an error ("copying between 312ae3b and 312acee did not result in accurate copy. Memtest has detected that your computer cannot accurately store data in RAM").

Now I have to find out which memory is the bad one.