Memory or Video causing issues?

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Mystery

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Hello all, I built a new system back in January, and really, I've let the problems I've had slide...until now, it's totally driving me mad.

This is my current build

striker extreme
3 gigs of ddr2 800 corsair XMS2 ram (should be 4 gigs, but I'm sure you're all aware of 32bit not supporting it)
XFX 8800 GTX XXX
150 gig raptor
500 gig sata
E6600
Creative X-FI Gamer

I've had this issue for a long time, and I've kinda decided it's a temp issue. While playing any game, be it Fear, Oblivion, Vanguard, World of Warcraft out of nowhere I would get NV4_display errors...now it seems those have subsided with the new driver releases from nvidia.

Now I'm getting crashes, just the same while playing World of Warcraft, BSOD's, I haven't been able to get the exact cause because the BSOD doesn't stay up long enough for me to remember any of it, and my event viewer shows no crashing (go figure)

I thought this might be a temperature issue because it seems to happen on all games.

Right now, my CPU is idle at 44, system is at 41, and gpu is at 61. I have no way of monitoring my ram, although I'd like to know how.

I can come back with more details on my specs if needed (like ram model and what not)

But yeah, is anyone having these same issues?
 
I am not sure what your GPU temp should be but is 61 too high for idle?
 
Well, it was normally 73, and I contacted XFX in regards to it, and they say that it's fine, I guess the 8800 768 chips run hot.
 
Not a temp issue.. those temps are normal.

Use driver cleaner and remove the nvidia drivers, and install the new ones. I was having the same nv4 dll error with a BSOD whenever I tried to play a .mpg or .ts video. Driver cleaner and re-installing drivers didn't fix it for me though. (for others it has worked) I ended up formatting the hard drive and installing vista. Now its fine.
 
I'm still waiting for vista in the mail...

Do you know if Vista supports 4gigs of ram?

I'm a little sketchy though on upgrading to vista, seems like Microsoft has a track record where newly released OS's have issues.
 
The x64 version fully supports 4GB. The x32 will only 'show' 3.25 GB.
 
are 64bit versions of xp or vista still having problems? To be completely honest I want to utilize the entire 4 gigs... if vista 32x won't utilize all of it.... then i'm not sure what I'll do.
 
regardless, I know that switching to vista and driver cleaning and reinstalling the latest drivers might be fixes.. I'll probably run through that tonight, in addition I'm going to make sure my 8800 is placed in the pci-e slot correctly, because it's so big, and it fit in akwardly.
 
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