New ram, new crash

[{HHx}b14ze]

Just installed another gig of pc3200 ram. Im up to two gigs now. Now when i try to run battlefield 2 it crashes at times. Quake 4 runs awesome with no crashes, as does call of duty 2. What's up with this?

[Death Merchant]

Re: New ram, new crash

before we can help you need to tell us your full pc specs

[NoSoup4You]

Re: New ram, new crash

Run MemTest86. Most likely there is a conflict with the new RAM you installed.

[{HHx}b14ze]

Re: New ram, new crash

Amd athlon 64 3000+ 1.8ghz
PciX nvidia 6600GT
2gigs pc3200 400mhz dual channel ddr
80 gig sata hd
sblive soundcard

[imported_Zach]

Re: New ram, new crash

As already suggested:

1. Go to http://www.memtest.org;
2. Download and create either a boot floppy or boot CD (your preference);
3. Reboot your machine and go into BIOS and change setting to make sure your first boot device is the aforementioned floppy drive or CD drive;
4. Reboot again and then walk away. :)

You should watch the first pass (2 GB @ 200 MHz will take about 40 minutes), and then let it run overnight.