problems running games on new machine

I hope I was right and blamed the PSU.... but I also agree with your second diagnosis that the GFX card also maybe faulty, although a RMA will sort it. My current rig I was lucky when I ordered the parts from OCUK I was setting up SLI, but my first card in before setting up SLI for XP setup ran fine. Once any game went on or running 3D mark the card lost it. I was lucky because I had a second card and used that while I waited on the RMA. I just hope I was right and its the PSU :D good luck dude hope it goes ok.

Regards

Vic
 
New PSU came, no difference, I am guessing now that it is either the GFX card itself or the PCIE x16 slot on the mobo, i'm tempted to move the GFX card down to an ordinary PCIE slot will that make a difference do you think?
 
attempt number 2, just took my gfx card out to send back and put my spare in it's an Asus EN7300LE 256mb and the same problem still occurs, so if it's neither the ram, the psu, or the gfx card whats the problem?
 
Mobo or hard disk are what are left now? Seems very unlikely though. A page fault would normally be a RAM issue.

Run a chkdsk on your hard disk(s) and see if you get any errors reported. I doubt this will prove anything but you may as well I reckon.

What are you going to do with the new PSU seeing as it wasn't the old one? Going to return it?
 
Like your thinking. That was one bonus about my PSU blowing and only taking itself for the ride to PSU heaven, my new Corsair PSU is so QUIET compared to the Hiper. :D

(Btw I shouted the quiet bit because you wouldn't have heard it otherwise, it's that quiet! :p)
 
Sorry I thought we were on about RAM issues here. :D Must pay more attention.

Yeah a chkdsk would be a very good idea then! :p

Did you try?
Run Chkdsk /f /r to detect and repair disk errors.
Click to expand...

If you found errors on chkdsk did you fix them? Fix them and see if you get the error when you play a game. :)
 
something my friend just pointed out, theres inconsistancy between my Ram, I have 2gb of ram and VM is 2gb and my friend said it should be 3gb at least, so perhaps the ram is faulty and the mem test didn't pick it up?
 
VM? What is VM? And why should it be 3Gb at least? If the RAM was faulty I would expect Memtest to have found the error. Did you leave it overnight? It needs to left to do several passes.
 
Ah OK. Still don't understand why it should be 3Gb. Best thing to do is set XP to manage the Page file for you.

You could try taking one stick of RAM out and trying XP/games with that and seeing if the error occurs still. Then try the other stick on its own. Perhaps the error will only happen with one of the sticks. If it does its that stick of RAM. If the error occurs with both sticks of RAM, PSU is OK, hard disk errors have been fixed then perhaps mobo?
 
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