I have started to get problems with some games that used to work fine. I not a gamer and i don't play games often and i don't have any recent games, since my PC is not that powerful. Yesterday i dediced to try my 'Ford Racing 3' game, but when it was loading the main menu, it crashed. Always crash there. I looked from the event viewer and there was this message: unknown software exception (0x80000003)... 0x7c901230. I reinstalled the game, didn't help and installed different drivers, but no joy. Also have problems with HL2. When i quit the game i get "memory could not be read" error. I think both of those problems are not driver related, since i have tried different drivers. I think there's something wrong with my system. Can it be a bad memory stick? I have one 512mb and one 1gig stick. I have R9550, X-Fi music and XP SP2.

Let me add, that most games work just fine. Also, here's the FR3 crash.log: Executable build date: Oct 06 2004 Executable build time: 15:56:54 Crash details: Location: 00476361 Reason: Access violation Tried to read from memory location: 0x00000000 Register dump: EAX: 0x003c90f0 EBX: 0x00000000 ECX: 0x00dd1670 EDX: 0x00000000 EDI: 0x00000001 ESI: 0x00000003 EBP: 0x0118f6d0 ESP: 0x0118f62c EIP: 0x00476361 Floating point details: Control word: 0xffff0e7f Status word: 0xffff0020 ST(0): f4f018010000f26cc0f1 ST(1): 000000000000f0ba0a40 ST(2): 000000000000e0870940 ST(3): 000000000000e0870940 ST(4): 0000000000000080ff3f ST(5): 000000000000e0880640 ST(6): 00000000000000000000 ST(7): 00000000000000fe0540 Stack dump: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 05dc94e0 05dc94e0 00475cc1 00000056 00000000 00000060 0051d5f8 004c37a0 004c372a 027a0450 004c3680 02021fe0

I need some help with this too. Whenever I exit out of my FXLab, I get the message "Memory can not be read" error. The program works fine, it just hapens when I exit it. William E C I AM WEC!!! http://iamwec.wordpress.com/ "If at first you don't succeed, redefine success!" - Anonymous

"I have one 512mb and one 1gig stick" Have you ever tested your RAM with a memory diagnostic program such as memtest86, memtest86+ or Windows Memory Diagnostic? How to Use MSCONFIG "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

Just tried few things, but no joy. First i tried with my Sygate FW disabled and then i restored some changed BIOS settings, but like i said, no joy. Edit: jam, no i have not. But i read that they will take a lot of time to scan.

"But i read that they will take a lot of time to scan" Some people like to run memtest for several hours or even overnite as more of a stress test to try to "force" an error. If it survives an overnite test, you can be reasonably assured that the RAM is 100% error free. Running a single test series is generally sufficient though...that usually takes about 30 min. It's best to test one stick at a time, then paired up. If any errors are found, make sure the contacts are clean & that the RAM is fully seated in it's slot, then try running memtest again. If errors are found again, it's likely that the RAM is defective. "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

Can it be a DirectX problem. I have updated my 9.0C a couple of times. Should i just reinstall the "original version", if it's possible?