oscarin

Excellent!! YES!! That was it.

I've did the tests you suggested, and now I don't have more problems, it was the memory frequency being wrong while using 4 sticks on this particular motherboard.

Thanks a bunch!

Arklon

Of course, they seem to ignore the fact that you can pirate console games and play them, and if they just shift all the games toward consoles, console game piracy will increase significantly.
And I bet most of the reason isn't because of piracy, it's because publishers want more $$$, which they can milk plenty out of the console market without the dumb consumers understanding what's really going on (half-assed Oblivion DLC raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars within a couple weeks and still continuing to sell, games that are rehashes of previous ones (EA likes to put these out), and so on). The "every pirated copy = a lost sale" logic isn't true, it's not that simple, despite what one might say for the sake of defending their (moral/philosophical?) standpoint.

... What? Oh, "ATI BSOD"? Right.

aura

Hi oscarin, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge, the problem I had with ati3duag.dll is now fixed. I just downloaded the KB900485 and KB920872 from windows update. also instaled a new driver for ATI mobility radeon x1400... but I think that the problem was about windows, just as you said.
All the best for you

Dyre Straits

You'd be surprised how often people use AUTO settings for their RAM and it's set up improperly and causing all kinds of mayhem.

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fregate

Hi All!

I'd install windows xp 64 bit (for full 4gb RAM support) and, of course, have BSOD in ati3duag,dll. Now I can't find any relations updates (like KB900485 and KB920872 ) for windows xp x64.
How about for winxp 64?

Thanks

taarna23

It is very nice to see such a detailed level of help, however, some of us have still had issues... I, for one, was two days too late to be able to take my piece of garbage ASUS AH2600 Pro back to replace it. Thus, I was forced to work through the problems and I believe now that things should be stable. Then again, I named my computer "Stupid" for a reason...

Well, onward...

I got the updates described in the first post, to no avail. I give in, figure out MemTest86+ (okay, it wasn't that hard. Shh). Apparently my RAM is bad. Fine. I take it in, get new stuff, it still doesn't like me. I take the whole damn computer in (warranties are fun) and they determine that the RAM I chose and my motherboard don't want to cooperate, and that this is a common problem with KingMax (avoiding this stuff from now on) RAM.

Replaced RAM. Good.

Crash. Bad.

I go, research and try out the Omega Drivers to see how they do. No crashes... but only for a time. Eventually, they too serve to be no help.

I poke around my computer for a while debating what to do next. Wondering why I didn't think of it before, I run dxdiag. It crashes. This seems like a very bad thing to me, so I harass a more technically-minded friend about this.

He suggests some slightly older Omega Drivers and I get no crashes... For 5 days, anyway. I decide at this point to recreate my two old crashes, the one while gaming, and the one from dxdiag. Well, both succeed, much to my dismay. This does, however, create logs I can pick apart and examine.

Game crash:
Probably caused by : ati3duag.dll
Alright, I saw that one coming...

dxdiag crash:
Probably caused by : Cap713x.sys
But what in blue blazes is this?

Research...

It's something related to video capture... I didn't know I had video capture with this thing... I don't even really need it I have a card specifically for video capture, if I can be bothered to install the software... Well, that aside, I disable the device.

So far, no crashes, but then, it hasn't been that long. If you need to find this device, in your hardware manager, it's under Sound, video and game controllers, and it goes by the name of ASUS Silicon WDM Video Capture.

I hope this helps someone out there!

[Edit]
Turns out this only helped one of my problems; the crash when running dxdiag. Hopefully this will still help someone.

Clarity

If you guys can not get those KB900485 and KB920872 updates for some reason (wonder why.. ^^) i uploaded them to piratebay

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4083267/....sp2.update.en
for eng users
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4081649/...date.fin.suomi
for fin users

i'm seeding almost all the time. gl with fixing, this thread and updates helped me out.

THX !

wayne3213

i am having the same problem! but that didn't fix it. im trying to run nfs pro street demo and it goes fine but when i get to the main menu the soun starts to stutter and the screen goes black and freezes. the first time it happened i got the blue screen of death! telling me about ati3duag.dll and you know the drill! I'm going crazy! i just bought a brand new ati radeon hd2600 pro card!!!! AAHHHHH HELP!!!! please

wayne3213

another thing. i've played other games like call of duty 2, nfs carbon and the sims 2 in max graphics and everything was fine. maybe because it's a demo? im getting the real one in a couple days

Dyre Straits

You need to list specifically what hardware you have in your system. Just saying "Good Enough" won't do it if you want some solid help.

What Sound Card are you using?

Are all the Device Drivers up to date? That also include Motherboard/Chipset drivers?

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