New computer can't install?

Ok, so I now have a computer thats about twice as fast and three times better than my old machine, but when I put my guildwars disk in to install I'm getting a error message that throws up 0xc0000005 and something about memory! I have 3gigs of memory in here and have no idea why it would be doing this, can anyone throw any light on the subject

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It might be faulty memory

scan for spyware

make sure all drivers are up to date

put one stick of ram in at a time to find bad stick/s

It's a clean install of Windows, done this afternoon,

there is a mix of ram could that be a problem? 2 sticks of 1 gig and 2 of 512 but they are both pc400 ddr, the tech guy said they should play nice together

I'm going to try to take out the 2 sticks of 512,

heres what my system looks like

System - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+, 2000 MHz
Memory - 3072MB RAM
Video - NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

yea it could be the problem if the motherboard has dual channel capabilities.

It could be because it isn't paired RAM. I've had those sort of problems in the past before...

After you've tried it without the 512's post results.

It's almost certainly a memory error. I bet you have a bad stick. Alternately, the motherboard might not be handling your sticks of various sizes/brands very well.

Your task is this: Isolate which stick is giving you grief. Try different combinations of sticks until you find which one is no good. Also, try running Memtest86.

I did a system restore and took out the 512 sticks it seems to be working, thanks for all your help guysand girls

Don't mix ram.

That causes lots of problems, use the same size of ram from the same brand - and the same type, always. Preferably pairs from the same package.

Interesting factoid:

4GB of cheap DDR2 is better than 2GB expensive DDR2.

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I've mixed ram sizes and brands many times before. Never had any problems.

Lol, you serious? Well at any rate I wouldn't recommend it much.. figured all the timings and different voltages required for the RAM modules would be some sort of conflict.

On an unrelated note, my PC locked up for the first time ever just after putting these Corsair sticks in, need to run mem-test and stuff.. tired of dealing with RAM problems.

Yep. To name a couple examples... My old pc had 1 512 stick and 1 256, both different brands, no problems. And my even older p3 system had 3 sticks across 2 different brands and sizes. On the timings bit, those work similarly to clock speeds from my experience. Ex. they only run as fast as the slowest. Or atleast that's what system info programs told me.

I mixed ram a LOOOOOONG time ago but never anymore on modern boards.

There is nothing wrong with mixing memory. He probably has the like DIMMs in the same channel anyways. It is either a faulty stick or the default timings could be too tight. The more DIMMs you have the harder it is for the memory controller; it that shouldn't be a problem, but it is possible.

I would test each stick of RAM one at a time and see if any are faulty. If none are reporting errors add in the two 1024 sticks and see if they work. Also, make sure you have the sticks in the correct DIMM slots, like with like.

Really? I was always under the impression that it would cause conflicts, just naturally.

But with the way they make computers now days, I guess I'm not surprised.

When you have 2 different sticks of ram with differnt timings in a pc, both sticks are used at the timings set out on the slowest stick of ram, I'm not too sure what happens with the voltage though. So it is better to have a matching pair of ram for use in a pc.

Yeap, sometimes it works, sometimes not. I've gotten away with it in one system while my newer system couldn't make it work.

Try running Memtest from: http://memtest.org/ over night. If you have errors in your results the next day then remove 1 stick of ram and retry. If the errors disappear, the stick you removed is probably the problem. If not put the ram back and remove another. Also be sure that you have floppy or cd as 1st boot device in bios when running memtest.