hello,
my pc crashes when i play medal of honor pacific assault,this is the only game that crashes so far,however when i try and encode files for burning my pc always crashes.I have tried nero,dvd santa,and various others but it always crashes when encoding.can anyone point me in the right direction to try and solve this problem,ie does this point to a damaged video card,or is more likely to be memory problem.
no other problems with video card,also is there any software that would record the cause of the crash in report form(that a novice could understand),or how do i test memory.
any help would be most welcome.


Field Value
Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack -
Internet Explorer 6.0.2600.0000 (IE 6.0 - Windows XP)
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP-A, 1920 MHz (11.5 x 167) 2600+
Motherboard Name ASRock K7S8X v3 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN)
Motherboard Chipset SiS 748
System Memory 512 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (10/07/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 (256 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Monitor Samsung SyncMaster 172T/176T/MagicSyncMaster CX176T/CX171T (Digital) [17" LCD] (HMEWA03092)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter SiS 7012 Audio Device

Storage
IDE Controller SiS PCI IDE Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y080L0 (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive IDE DVD-ROM 16X (16x DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D (DVD+RW:8x/4x, DVD-RW:8x/4x, DVD-ROM:12x, CD:24x/24x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)

hello wessa1 welcome to dal
are your drivers for you burners up to date also have you installed service pack 2 i just wondered if you had some confliction problems if you have installed it

To recieve error messages follow the following:

You can turn off the feature that instructs XP to autostart on system
failure. Right click on My Computer and select Properties->Advanced
Tab->Startup & Recovery section->Settings button->uncheck "Automatically
restart" Apply. This will give you a blue screen with info on it and you
will have to manually restart the computer. The info might give you an idea
whether or not the problem is hardware or software related.

Also: check your Event Viewer for errors:

START > RUN > eventvwr.msc

you can post errors here for reading.