Baffling Issue

[Sphere]

Hello everyone,

I'm having an issue with my rig that I just can not put my finger on...first of all, this is the issue:

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT (4e)
Typically caused by drivers passing bad memory descriptor lists (ie: calling
MmUnlockPages twice with the same list, etc). If a kernel debugger is
available get the stack trace.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00000099, A PTE or PFN is corrupt
Arg2: 00117409, page frame number
Arg3: 00000000, current page state
Arg4: 00000000, 0

Debugging Details:
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***** Kernel symbols are WRONG. Please fix symbols to do analysis.


MODULE_NAME: nt

FAULTING_MODULE: 804d7000 nt

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 42250a1d

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT

BUGCHECK_STR: 0x4E

This happend on 2 new installs of XP, so I know it's hardware since my mobo,ram, and vid card carried over.

I have found a consistant way to get kicked to desktop, this should be important in the solution. When starting BF2, all is well until I start loading a map, every time I get to the "loading geometries" at 58% it kicks me straight to the desktop with no errors in the event viewer. This makes me wonder what's taking the brunt of that "load" at that precise time, is it the cpu or gpu?

Here's what I've tried:

Put my system back at stock, no oc,ing at all.

Ran memtest for 6 hours, no errors, replaced with other ram, obviously, still the same.

Ran stress test on Prime 95 -blended-for 8 hours, no errors on the cores or ram

My voltages are rock solid along with my temps, this cpu has never hit 43(temp)

Any advice/opinions are greatly appreciated, thank you.

K8N Neo4-F
Opteron 165@2.4
X1900XTX
2GB Patriot 3200
Antec Truepower 550

 

[Dan17]

This fully describes the error message and the causes for it. Windows STOP Message

"Defective memory (including main memory, L2 RAM cache, video RAM) or incompatible software (including remote control and antivirus software) might cause this Stop message, as may other hardware problems (e.g., incorrect SCSI termination or a flawed PCI card)."

So it may end up being a hardware problem like you said which means that it could be expensive if it's your processor's L2 cache. What you'll probably have to do is swap out part by part to test if you have some spare parts available.

Good luck with the repairs, hopefully it's only software,

...Dan

Let me know if you still need help

 

[Sphere]

Thanks Dan, I appreciate you stopping by.

It's been two days now, and all is well. Just for the hell of it I went and uninstalled BF2, then reinstalled .After that, no more issues.

Initially my thoughts were ram or cpu, but after testing differen't sticks I have laying around, that was ruled out. Five years or so back, I had a cpu go south, took me almost a month to figure that one out since it would work fine at 100 bus, but became ruthless at anything above, so underclocking gave me the answer.

If this issue does crop up again, I'll RMA the ram, it has a lifetime warranty on it. I'll let you know if I run across any more issues.

On the bright side, at least I was forced to learn how to use the debugging tools and verifier.exe.

EDIT:

Just out of wanting to know, is it possible that part(s) of the software install could have wound up where they should not have been, resulting in it raising chaos in the system without the game running?

Thanks again,

Sphere