Help Me, Serious Error on my new E1705

I got my E1705 with the 7900 gs gpu. I havent been having any problems with heat(i monitor and regulate it with 18kfangui), and i have up to date nortons anti 06.

Ive had this computer for about a month now. Anyways recently i have gotten an error message with a blue screen of death. I have gotten it 3 times in the past week, twice while playing a cracked version of stronghold 2.

The message says:

*** Hardware Malfunction
Contact your hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error
*** The System Has Halted***


Anyone know what this means, how serious it is, and how i can fix it?

 

Oh and i forgot to mention, everytime after i have to reboot from this error message, My computer restarts with resolution of 1024x768 (its normally 1920x1200)

 

I recomended you to call DELL for this problem.

 

don't play cracked games... unless you have tested them

 

Playing a cracked game on a new system....your just asking for problems.

Also trying to play a game and monitor your system heat manually....Im guessing you overheated your video card. You have a month old system why try and improve on what Dell put in your computer to control the cooling?????

I would have to say you got a combo going....cracked game untested game and most likely a hot video card.

 

anyway.... This problem has many different reasons. I had this error with my Atheros Wi-Fi card because it was overheating and corrupting my ram. A overheating video card may do the same. Another good reason is that your memory or northbridge may be defective causing this.

Though I am new here, my info is reputable. I have well over 1500 posts over in NBF.

But also like they said, if that is the ONLY game you are getting errors in, it may be the cracked game.

And Jagged, we run I8KFangui, because Dell's thermal fan settings are terrible. It is widely known that you can overclock the living hell out of the GS card safely and we use this to give a little extra cooling. I have never heard bad things about I8k as I have been using it for over 2 years now.

And Pete, If you are overclocking, you have to be careful with your model. You only have 1 heat pipe on your vcard unlike mine which has dual pipe. Your temps will ride a little bit higher and you want to keep an eye on that. If you are brave like me, do the AS5 thermal paste upgrade as well. That will help. But BEFORE you go and deem your vcard dead, De-overclock and strip the drivers and reinstall the stock dell drivers and see if the error goes away.

On your card (single pipe) I would not recommend running over 550c/1100m with the GS bios or 550/1500 with the new GSX bios.

 

Call Dell .

 

Or try searching the forums. There are at least two other threads on the NMI error message.

 

i really doubt the game has anything to do with it, because it also happened once while i was at class running nothing. Also like i said, my GPU isnt overheating i havent seen it go above 60 C even.