X800gto Owners Please Read

[Syn]

A member in my gaming comunity is having bit of trouble with his new card. Knowning the gaming company i know they dont lift a finger to help so i thought i might see what i can do. Basically the problem is found when playing Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. The guy gets an error message followed by a crash to desktop when ever he plays the game, single player, online, lan doesnt make a difference. He upgraded from Ti4400 and ever since then trouble started. We tried playing with graphics settings and BIOS settings but so far nothing worked. He also did mention that some people are having similar problems when it comes to Doom3 or Quake4.

His spec:
1) I have nothing overclocked on my system. Memory, CPU, and video card are all running at stock speeds. For the record here are my specs:
AMD 2500 Barton
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo, BIOS v1009
1GB PC3200 OCZ RAM (2x512MB)
Sapphire ATI X800GTO 256MB (running Catalyst 5.10)
nForce Soundstorm (onboard - using nForce 5.10 drivers)
DX 9.0c

The problem:
" I get sysdumps when the game starts. Sometimes it happens when the loading bar for the map gets to 100%, but most of the time the map starts and when I hit X or space bar to spawn it almost immediately sysdumps and crashes to desktop. I did notice that on a couple of maps I can move around but as soon as I fire a weapon or jump in a vehicle (doesn't matter which one) I get the sysdump. Also, on those few maps where I can move around before the sysdump, the grpahics are all messed up (solid grey sky, the ground at the spawn point is all water even though I know there isn't any water at the spawn point on that map, some artifacts and tearing, etc). After the sysdump there's a dialog box and it always says the exact same thing: "The instruction at '0x00586345' referenced memory at '0x00000000'. The memory could not be 'read'."


Please any help about any problems you had with X800GTO will be welcome.

[kalniel]

Try reseating the system RAM and/or using a mem checker.

[Syn]

can you explain a bit further. and do you have a link to a mem checker?

[McMav]

when he changed from the nvidia to the ati did he run driver cleaner to remove all the Nvidia gfx drivers??? If not there could be some leftovers causing a conflit. Deinstall the drivers for ati boot into safemode and run driver cleaner (google is your friend) then reboot and reinstall ati drivers.

[kalniel]

Actually what McMav said is a more likely problem. Try cleaning out the drivers first. If you still get a problem then try re-seating the RAM.

Re-seating is just taking the ram out of the system and putting it back in again, making sure there's no dust in the connectors.

For RAM checkers just do a search. A quick one yeilds http://www.memtest86.com/ but I've no idea how good it is compared to the competition.