Floating Point Errors!

Hi all!

I know i'm gonna get slammed for this and all...

I am using win 2003 on my computer at the moment (had to review it for my magazine and its running my home network), but I also use it as a workstation... all the graphics options turned on and all that...

Now, I decided a little while ago to just try out a couple of games... see if they would play ball. To my surprise they did! It seemed to me that everything was fine, and that for games purposes win2003 just behaved like win xp.

All was going fine until a few days ago... Now i'm getting crashes from things... not just games,... but particularly Soldier of Fortune II MP, siting "Floating point error" or in some cases "The application referenced memory at 00.cf blah blah, this memory could not be read". I am rather concerned....

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers

Spec... just in case

P4 2.53 Ghz

512Mb DDR RAM

Intel Proset based QDI Platinix 2E m/board

2x Maxtor HDDs (1x 60Gb, 1x 40Gb)

nVidia GeForce 4 MX 640 based graphics w/ 64Mb DDR vRAM

Creative SB Audigy 2 Platinum

Win 2003 Server Ent. Edition

Cheers again... any help grately appreciated

#60068

Why would you get slammed?

Sounds like a hardware (memory) issue. Your RAM may have gone bad.

You could try using MEMTEST86. It will test if your memory is busted, and its very accurate. Its a DOS program, just google it.

Alternatively,you could try running KNOPPIX and see if that crashes or gives you errors. If it does, you know that your hardware is busted.

#60077

Humm... starting to get really worried now...

Mem check went ok, but certain programs of mine just seem to be randomly not working... I just had to re-install Trillian Pro 2.0 cos it wouldn't load up properly and caused a mem leak... SoF II i knew about... all of a sudden my MS Agent (yes, i know the office assistan is annoying... but it's just another thing that wont work) has stopped working... and I'm finding more and more things that are crashing on me. My only thoughts are either bad HD or virus, or problems in other main components like CPU or m/board.

P4's are usually fairly stable so i would guess its not that... but the other stuff concerns me.

Any ideas appreciated.

#60409

what visual style are you running??

#60651

None..... WB4, OB, MobyDock, WinFX and Yz Toolbar do all the skinning duties.

Its a pain in the arse... I would run Norton to scan for a virus, but the b*stard thing wont run on WS2003, and McCaffee havent brough out a WS2003 compatible scanner yet either

#60684

Could be an overheating issue...

is it possible that a cooling fan isn't working?

processers have a tendency to flake out when they overheat.

#60759

fans all working fine... and this is a P4... it just throttles itself down when it gets too hot doesnt it?

#60764

As far as i know p4 don't do that.

But your problem sounds like your memory is broken. Happened to me a while ago.

#60773

P4 does do that... has a heat sensitive diode on it that throttles it down if its getting too hot... prevents it melting lol

As for the memory... i think you might be right. Incidentally that fecking PE_Party virus found its way in to my comp... seems to be gone now tho.... little b*stard!

#60865