Thank you in advance for any help you can GIVE me - I have googled and yahooed for two hours and can't FIND any help.

The error message:
The instruction at 0x2223526d referenced memory at 0x0d5c61b0. The memory could not be "read". This happens when I try to play any games that I've tried (CounterStrike, Day of Defeat, Half Life2). My other programs work fine.


SYSTEM Info:
Windows XP, Athlon XP2400, 2 sticks of 512MB RAM, 80GB Hard drive, VisionTex Radeon 9550 video card. No viruses (did a scan). I tested the memory and no errors reported.


Other info:
The hard drive is new, and so I had to reinstall the video driver. I'm thinking it might be a video driver issue because I never had these problems with my old hard drive. I downloaded the most recent driver from ATI and I got the error message above. So I uninstalled the driver in Safe Mode. Then I downloaded the driver from the VisionTek site, and I got the same error message again.

I hope I haven't missed anything. If I have please let me know and thanks again if you can help.Try it with only one stick of RAM, then the other, swapping slots too.
You know what I mean, perhaps you have already tried it.
There seems to be a whole clan of people out there with similar problems and an equal number of answers that vary from one computer to another.
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic8913-pg1.html&pp=20Thank you, Fed.

Well it wasn't the memory and there sure are a lot of others out there with similar problems. And in all of those discussions it doesn't look like anyone really has the answer. But I did get it WORKING. I just reformatted and reinstalled the OS. No more errors. Maybe my system didn't like the new drive or something.

Anyway I just wanted to let you know the problem was solved. Thank you for taking the time to answer.

See you around!Thanks for letting us know, I NOTICED for many people even a fresh install didn't help so consider yourself one of the lucky ones. Quote

Well it wasn't the memory and there sure are a lot of others out there with similar problems. And in all of those discussions it doesn't look like anyone really has the answer. But I did get it working. I just reformatted and reinstalled the OS.

The ultimate solution.