games constantly crashing!

[MarkW]

Hi guys,

I built this machine about 3 months ago and its been fine, but for the past 2 weeks my games crash for no reason.. whetever in playing or sitting afk. i play online game and its highly annoying.
I get error messages saying Files corrupt #131, Ive looked it up on the games website and followed all instruction's. The the crash's begin again within an a hour... I've re-installed the games and DL'd the patches and still the same error messages, Could it be i've developed a faulty component??
I've run every kind of addware/spyware/virus scan but still occours.

Any help would be much appreciated as im stumped :(

Thanks guys

Machine spec:- (all purchased from Novatach, Portchester)

ASUS P5Pe-VM Motherboard
3.0 Dual core pentium processor,
GeForce 7600 GT (AGP)
Hiper 530w PSU
1GB DDR Ram
512 DDR Ram (tired with just 1 stick of ram in and no change)
80GB western digital HDD

[MarkW]

this is a copy/paste of the error report :-

Means nothing to me.. :( hope someone can see something from it

This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #131 (0x85100083) File Corrupt
Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
File: Data\common.MPQ

File = Sound\Ambience\WMOAmbience\LargeRoomToneNew.wav
Cached Read = Decompression failed
Raw Read = ReadFileUnbuffered() Failed


WoWBuild: 6898

================================================== ====================
Hardware/Driver Information:
Processor: 0x0
Page Size: 4096
Min App Address: 0x10000
Max App Address: 0x7ffeffff
Processor Mask: 0x3
Number of Processors: 2
Processor Type: 586
Allocation Granularity: 65536
Processor Level: 15
Processor Revision: 1541

Percent memory used: 78
Total physical memory: 1072934912
Free Memory: 226623488
Page file: -1176694784
Total virtual memory: 2147352576


And yes i know i'm too old to play Warcraft games lol buti m still a kid at 32 :D

[MarkW]

just got a different error report..

This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #124 (0x8510007c) Memory Invalid Block
Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
Function: delete[]

SMem3: Pointer does not refer to a valid allocated block of memory


Does this mean its another wonky stick of ram?? :(

[djgandy]

Sounds like it.

0x8510007c is kernel memory. A process shouldn't be accessing that.

[MarkW]

thanks for the reply.

I'll replace the RAM, What causes RAM die like this????

[Jonny2Bad]

All asus mobo's need a named brand of ram, generic ram just doesnt work in asus boards for some reason, what type of ram have you got?