Hello all.
First of all, thank you for reading and replying to this thread!
"I am very uneducated in computer science and functionality."
My system specification:
CPU: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7500
Motherboard Model: 7664A14
Memory: 3 GB DDR2
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
OS: Windows XP SP 2
Storage: FUJITSU MHY2120BH
All device driver are from Lenovo website.
I have Thinkpad TTT for about 4 years now and have had no problem with hardware whatsoever. (Except services for replacing cooling fan twice).
I've been playing video games such as Battlefield 2, Warcraft 3, CS 1.6 and mostly any game that required low-mid requirement system.
Suddenly when playing video game, the computer crashes with a bluescreen contaning the following message:
*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
*** The system has halted ***
The computer rebooted itself after the bluescreen disappear and was able to work again for another hour until another bluescreen appears. This time when it rebooted, it didn't show anything, not even BIOs, just plain black screen. I turn it off and back on again and still no image. The computer will keep rebooting itself every 20 seconds approx. until it was able to load BIOs and into Windows (This might take anywhere from 3-100's of attempts). When I was able to use Windows again and used PC-Doctor to test my system. It shows no problem has occured with any devices.
From there, if the computer was able to turn on and load properly, I would be able to use it, shut down and turn back on or restart, the computer would act normally. But anytime I enter a video game, the system crashes with bluescreen with the message "Hardware Malfunction". If the crash happened, I would reboot and the loading problem above would occured (where it would attempt to load the system but fail to do so and would restart itself and try again). So now when it does load and properly working, I'm only able to do anything but play video games (Web browsing, install and uninstall softwares, documents).
For some times before this happen, my computer would get very hot from video gaming which usually it had never happen.
I am not certain if the system RAM is the main issue. The hardware might be damaged from overheating but the overheating problem are gone and still the problem occures. I'll be sending my laptop for service in a couple of days so from my discriptions, what would likely be the highest factor that cause this problem? And did anyone have has the same problem?
Thanks for respond!
