Hey all,
Firstly, specs:
AMD XP Athlon 3200+
ATi Connect 3D 9800 pro (128mb)
2x512mb corsair value ram
Windows xp Pro
MSI motherboard, can't recall actual model.
350 watt power supply
Nothing is overclocked, and everything is adequatly cooled.
Caesar 4, Company of Heros, Star Wars Empire at war (and x-pack) and Neverwinter nights 2 all crash to desktop reporting the same windows error (internal message, send/don't send)
All drivers updated to latest, hard drive defragged, virus and spyware scan. DirectX is latest version, and has been checked for errors.
I do have ATi Catalyst Control center running in the background which has been logging the crashes. I have been looking through the event viewer and there are similarities. The fault address changes each time, but the data shown at the bottom, with all the numbers, is the same each time for each game. ie nwn2 shows the same data, CoH shows same data.
I have no idea what these numbers are. I would like to know if they come from hardware or software side, and if software side, if it's the games themselves or win XP.
I am planning to upgrade near Xmas and will do a full format then, until then, i would like to know how to address the problem, and IF a format will actually fix it.
Here is an example of what is meant by "data" There are two methods of display, Bytes and Words
BYTES
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 6e 77 6e ure nwn
0018: 32 6d 61 69 6e 5f 61 6d 2main_am
0020: 64 78 70 2e 65 78 65 20 dxp.exe
0028: 31 2e 30 2e 31 2e 38 30 1.0.1.80
0030: 37 20 69 6e 20 6e 77 6e 7 in nwn
0038: 32 6d 61 69 6e 5f 61 6d 2main_am
0040: 64 78 70 2e 65 78 65 20 dxp.exe
0048: 31 2e 30 2e 31 2e 38 30 1.0.1.80
0050: 37 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 7 at off
0058: 73 65 74 20 30 30 31 63 set 001c
0060: 64 36 65 30 0d 0a d6e0..
WORDS
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146
0010: 20657275 6e776e20 69616d32 6d615f6e
0020: 2e707864 20657865 2e302e31 30382e31
0030: 6e692037 6e776e20 69616d32 6d615f6e
0040: 2e707864 20657865 2e302e31 30382e31
0050: 74612037 66666f20 20746573 63313030
0060: 30653664 0a0d
These seems very compicated to me, but I am hoping someone will be able to understand what these numers mean, and at least tell me their origin.
Firstly, specs:
AMD XP Athlon 3200+
ATi Connect 3D 9800 pro (128mb)
2x512mb corsair value ram
Windows xp Pro
MSI motherboard, can't recall actual model.
350 watt power supply
Nothing is overclocked, and everything is adequatly cooled.
Caesar 4, Company of Heros, Star Wars Empire at war (and x-pack) and Neverwinter nights 2 all crash to desktop reporting the same windows error (internal message, send/don't send)
All drivers updated to latest, hard drive defragged, virus and spyware scan. DirectX is latest version, and has been checked for errors.
I do have ATi Catalyst Control center running in the background which has been logging the crashes. I have been looking through the event viewer and there are similarities. The fault address changes each time, but the data shown at the bottom, with all the numbers, is the same each time for each game. ie nwn2 shows the same data, CoH shows same data.
I have no idea what these numbers are. I would like to know if they come from hardware or software side, and if software side, if it's the games themselves or win XP.
I am planning to upgrade near Xmas and will do a full format then, until then, i would like to know how to address the problem, and IF a format will actually fix it.
Here is an example of what is meant by "data" There are two methods of display, Bytes and Words
BYTES
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 6e 77 6e ure nwn
0018: 32 6d 61 69 6e 5f 61 6d 2main_am
0020: 64 78 70 2e 65 78 65 20 dxp.exe
0028: 31 2e 30 2e 31 2e 38 30 1.0.1.80
0030: 37 20 69 6e 20 6e 77 6e 7 in nwn
0038: 32 6d 61 69 6e 5f 61 6d 2main_am
0040: 64 78 70 2e 65 78 65 20 dxp.exe
0048: 31 2e 30 2e 31 2e 38 30 1.0.1.80
0050: 37 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 7 at off
0058: 73 65 74 20 30 30 31 63 set 001c
0060: 64 36 65 30 0d 0a d6e0..
WORDS
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146
0010: 20657275 6e776e20 69616d32 6d615f6e
0020: 2e707864 20657865 2e302e31 30382e31
0030: 6e692037 6e776e20 69616d32 6d615f6e
0040: 2e707864 20657865 2e302e31 30382e31
0050: 74612037 66666f20 20746573 63313030
0060: 30653664 0a0d
These seems very compicated to me, but I am hoping someone will be able to understand what these numers mean, and at least tell me their origin.