Memory problem?

[robaylesbury]

Hello all.

I have 2 x sticks of 1gb Geil value ram, both of which seemed fine in my old PC.

Since my new build I have experienced random, sporadic BSOD's when running windows media player and sometimes games. These are utterly random, and the PC can go for days running fine. According to XP the cause could be either my PSU (500watt), Motherboard, CPU (AMD3500), or memory.

I have removed one of the sticks and am testing for stability. If the system stays solid I will change the sticks over and test again. I guess this is a sensible way to diagnose? I'm also wondering whether memtest might be useful. I don't have a floppy drive but I suppose I could burn it onto CD and boot from it?

Am I doing the right things?

Thanks

 

[El_Watcher]

Firstly how is Windows telling you where the fault is. Normally Windows can't tell where it's own pocesses are, let alone a fault.
What exactly does the BSOD say?
As it sounds to only happen with MP or games, could it not be sound card/ sound driver related?
Try running Memtest on one stick at a time over night and see if any errors occur.
Also try running HDD diagnostics just in case.
It is better to rule everything out yourself than rely on Windows to tell you what is wrong.