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[yodathesoda]

So to make this short and sweet I bought a new 6600 GT a new 512 piece of RAM and later a 400 Watt power supply. Everything seems to work OK but I have a feeling the new RAM isn't getting along well with everyone. There doesnt seem to be any noticable improvement with the new RAM (the new card is great though) and whenever I play videos (WMP or Quicktime it stalls my computer to a halt and crashes the program and I don't get to watch any porn. Anyways anyideas on diagnostic programs I can run to see what the problem is? I don't want to take it to the shop for big $$ and like to see if I can fix this myself. Thanks for any help dudes.

 

[FiRez]

Try switching the position of the ram modules
Try a fresh instalation of the OS

 

[Darias]

Is the ram you purchased the correct speed for your motherboard, processor, and ram bus?

If so, try running memtest-86, or microsoft memory test.

 

[tedtropy]

What brand of memory is it? Speed? (It'll be denoted as PC2700, PC3200, etc). Really cheap ram can usually make up for its price by being really unreliable.

 

[yodathesoda]

I looked into the make and speed before buying trying to get them both as close as possible and they are both 512 SDRAM PC 2700. I have a feeling this is more a video card issue because I removed the new RAM and the problem persists, is there any way to completely remove the old drivers? I have a feeling that when erasing the old video drivers from the control panel it didn't do a very good job.
Also I noticed when just playing the battlefield 2 Demo I get textures on the map popping up different colours like pink even though I'm using the drivers that came with the demo.
Sorry I'm such a nub

 

[yodathesoda]

bump- Anyone else had this issue???

 

[Danj]

If you want to do a complete reinstall of your graphics drivers, you could try changing your graphics adaptor to "Standard PCI VGA", rebooting, uninstalling your existing drivers from Add/Remove Programs (if it has an entry there) or going into safe mode and deleting them (if it doesn't), then reboot again into normal mode and install the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website (or if you're on an nvidia card use those 77.30 ones with BF2 demo).

 

[slayn]

its usually not very useful but you can use the event viewer in admin tools to see a log windows attempts to keep of 'what the fuck went wrong'

 

[yodathesoda]

its usually not very useful but you can use the event viewer in admin tools to see a log windows attempts to keep of 'what the fuck went wrong'

I checked out the event viewer and there were a few instances of event system errors that read

"The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was C0000005 from line 44 of d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error."

I have no idea if that means anything other than that it shows hangup errors where WMP stoppped responding.

Should I just send the card back?