Help With Fatel Errors

[MyMyMy]

I've started experiencing a problem which is VERY annoying. Its a mixture of fatal errors and "error caused by device driver". Sometimes it causes the compter to restart and other times it just causes the program to close. The problem seems to occur the most when I use demanding software/applications/games or a mixture. This lead me to believe it was either my ram or graphics card which i've discovered are fine through trying diffrent components and reseating etc. Also its neither an over-heating problem or PSU problem!!

Well any way i need help! so heres my computer specification
CPU: 2700+ Anthlon
Ram: 1 Gb (crucial)
Motherboard: KT7AV-L
Gfx: Saphire Radeon 9800 PRO128mb
HD: Exector[?] (sure you know what i mean)
PSU: Tagan TG-330

I've probably missing loads, but there ya go. Thanks for your attention!

Edit: I also have a black mouse

[GX1_Man]

Edit: I also have a black mouse

You get 10 bonus points for a sense of humor!

You might try in this order:

Reseating RAM chips
While in there reseat all other cards and make sure connections are snug with cables, etc., all fans are turning, etc.
Run memtest 86 (Free, www.memtest86.com) for several hours
Check for conflicts in device manager (yellow exclamation point)
Make sure your adware/spyware/virus scanners are up to date and  used
Check system temp, if available in BIOS
Let us know what video card is in there.
Is this a new problem, or has it always done this?

Let us know what you find.

[MyMyMy]

Right, So i've done most of the things you've suggested apart from the memtest (which i'll do a bit later) I reseated everything, and i thought for a second that maybe something (sound card which i've never reseated it) had sorted the problem as I managed to get through the entire opening cut scene of F.E.A.R. But then a short way into the game i discovered how to slide tackle and went a bit crazy tackle bad guys and the computer restarted it self

Is there any chance that it could be the motherboard that is causing this? When I first received the board it was faulty and had to get it replaced.

I'm not really 100% sure whether the problem has always been there, this is because its only recently games have become more demanding (slide tackling) and its only really started to show through this. I never experience this problem in games like HL(1), wc3, FM2006 and other various old school games.

Im gonna try the memtest later though to see if that can give any evidence to the problem. I've done it a few times before but no longer that 3-4 hours at a time.

[GX1_Man]

What about the system fans and the heat question? If it only does it when CPU intensive things are goin.....

[MyMyMy]

58 is the highest it goes. Hmm, I'll try running it with the sides of the case of. But surely that would only solve the computer restarting it self if it was the problem and not the application errors ?

[Fed]

Its a mixture of fatal errors and "error caused by device driver"

Update your sound & video drivers from the manufacturer's websites.

[MyMyMy]

Ok, I've checked and there now updated.

Whats the problem likely to be?

[Frankie]

Disable your sound to see if that is the problem. I used to play a game that crashed on me like this. I found out that although the sound card was working playing music Cds ECT...  it still caused my game to crash. I bought a diffrent Soundcard diffrent make and all was sorted. For what ever reason the soundcard i had didnt like me playing night maps.

[merlin_2]

various old school games.

Its a mixture of fatal errors and "error caused by device driver". Sometimes it causes the compter to restart and other times it just causes the program to close


visit the events log......c/panel >click admin tools. icon......

[patio]

Go to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager and check all your devices...if you spot any yellow ? marks then that is your wonked driver.
Replace accordingly.

patio.