If it might help, sure. A visit to a certain active thread around here would pay out too [img]smile.gif[/img]

Although possible, faulty RAM is more likely to cause random screens and exception errors.

Knowing a little of Stormy's history with computers I'm betting on a virus and/or worm of some sort. :D

http://uk.trendmicro-europe.com/

Dont worry cos its UK just look up in the top corner you can change to your country there better to do so get a better scan then!

Good luck!

I know, but in dual-channel systems these types of errors are not uncommon. It was a longshot, but I have to produce the most likely reasons of a certain problem to my customer(training for job kicks in).

hey, this time I am clean [img]tongue.gif[/img] I use norton and trendmicro every week or two ;) so it has to be the ram, this happened after the big crash that my husband caused, so it most likely got some kind of damage from that :/ oh well, I guess that until I can get a new system I am stuck not playing NWN :(

Well, you forgot to mention the crash part!

Before you do anything rash, I'd suggest re-installing all of your drivers including your motherboard drivers and a re-install of DX9 wouldn't hurt either.

If it happened just after a crash, I'd be willing to bet that some system files or driver librarys are corrupt.

EDIT: Go find a program called memtest on the web. It'll test your RAM for you before you begin taking your PC apart.

[ 09-23-2004, 04:10 PM: Message edited by: Animal ]

lol, well I did mention the crash months ago [img]tongue.gif[/img] ok, I will check this one out.

Or you can try the majorgeeks site and get Fresh Diagnose. I've been using it for a few months and it's a great program. Neat little gadget to have around.

Didn't mean that I was actually listening to you :D

Ouch