Is My Hardware Messed up? What is this error code mean?

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When I play a video game (Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon) I am getting black or gray screen crashes. The program will just freeze and I will have to push the reset or power button. Is My Hardware Messed up? What does this error code mean?


GhostRecon caused an Access Violation in module GhostRecon.exe at 001b:005736c4.
Exception handler called in Main Thread.
Error occurred at 8/27/2008 22:57:06.
C:\Various Programs\GHOST RECON\GhostRecon.exe, run by User-PC.
2 processor(s), type 586.
1790 MBytes physical memory.
Read from location 00000008 caused an access violation.

Registers:
EAX=00000003 CS=001b EIP=005736c4 EFLGS=00210206
EBX=0012f870 SS=0023 ESP=0012f7f8 EBP=0000004e
ECX=00000000 DS=0023 ESI=00000000 FS=003b
EDX=3f5cf0fd ES=0023 EDI=00000003 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 51 08 3b c2 73 0b 8b 09 8d 04 40 8d 04 81 c2

Stack trace:
005736C4: GhostRecon.exe! <no symbol>, <no file>, <no line>

Update edit: I went to the website http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681382(VS.85).aspx
to look up this error code.
It is saying that an error code 0x8 is "ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY"

How can this be? I have 1790 megabytes of physical random access memory available. Is my RAM faulty? I am going to pull out one RAM module at a time and see if I am still getting these error codes.

 

[simpletron]

Access Violation errors are caused by software trying to access some memory that it is not allow to. I don't think you have any problems with your hardware, but something to do with that game. I would look up any patches for that game to see there is a fix or reinstall the game.

 

[2048Megabytes]

Access Violation errors are caused by software trying to access some memory that it is not allow to. I don't think you have any problems with your hardware, but something to do with that game. I would look up any patches for that game to see there is a fix or reinstall the game.

You are likely right. I pulled out my RAM and tried one stick at a time and I am still getting the same problem. I don't have freeze ups like this except for when I play this game.

Update edit: I was playing Luxor 2 and had my system freeze up. So I tried going into my BIOS and changing my RAM from DDR2 800 to DDR2 667 megahertz. It seems to be running more stable now. I don't care if I am at PC2-10000 speeds since I am using dual channel mode versus my old PC2-12000 RAM speed.