Out of Memory messages

[Jerrymc3]

This problem started several weeks ago and has gotten progressively worse. Today I started a flight from KORD to KMSP using a repaint of the default 737-800, FSDreamTeam KORD, MegaScenery 2.0 Illinois scenery and FSPassengers. Just before I got to RWY 32L the FSUIPC Out Of Memory warning dings started. I took off and flew toward BAE dinging all the way. A few minutes after crossing the Wisconsin border into FSX default scenery I finally got the OOM message box and FSX crashed to desktop. The flight before when I flew into KORD MegaScenery was blurry, airport buildings, taxiways and runways were missing. When I last installed FSX a couple of months ago it was working fine with descent frame rates but lately each progressive flight has ended sooner. I'm also using FSPS v4 before I start FSX. About a week ago I tried this supposed memory fix from FSDeveloper.com: Go to a cmd prompt. Type: bcdedit /set increaseuserva 3072, Press enter. It didn't help. I'm not sure if I should reinstall FSX and start over or if it could possibly be a hardware issue, maybe a failing memory module. I sure would like to know what the problem is before I spend many hours reinstalling FSX and all my addons.

Jerry

SYSTEM SPECS
Home Cockpit based on B747-400
Project Magenta Boeing Aircraft Software
Altec Lansing VS5237 5.1 Surround Sound
Home made Control Column with CH Flight Yoke board
Home made Throttle Quadrant with CH Throttle Quadrant board
CH Rudder Pedals
FSX Acceleration
Ultimate Traffic

SYSTEM 1
(COCKPIT-1)

EVGA Z77 Motherboard
Intel i7 2700K @ 3.50 Ghz
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus Universal CPU Cooler
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 800MHz DDR3-2000 PC-16000
Evga 680 GTX 4GB
Evga 8800 GT 512MB DDR3
Seagate 500GB SATA II
Seagate 1.5TB SATA II
SanDisk 2.40GB SSD (FSX)
Cooler Master 1200w PS
Matrox TripleHeadToGo
(3) Samsung 46” HDTVs-Front surround view
ViewSonic 22” LCD-Left view
Aesus 23” LCD-Right view
Windows 7 64-bit
FSX
SIOC

SYSTEM 2
(COCKPIT-2)

NForce 750i LT SLI Motherboard
Core 2 DUO E8400 @ 3.0 Ghz
Corsair 4GB 800MHz DDR2
Evga GT 295 DDR3
Evga 8800 GT 512MB DDR3
Seagate 500GB SATA II
Cooler Master 750w PS
AOC 24” LCD-Captains PFD/ND
ACER 23.5” LCD-Overhead & MCP
Chemei 19” LCD-Primary ECIAS
eMachines 15.5” LCD-Secondary ECIAS/CDU
Windows 7 32-bit
Project Magenta

SYSTEM 3
(COCKPIT-3)

Intel D865PERL Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz cpu
Corsair 4GB 800MHz DDR
Geforce4 512MB Graphics card
Chemei 19” LCD -Copilot PFD/ND
Seagate 500GB SATA II
300w PS
Windows 7 32-bit

IOCARDS
(2) USB EXPANSION CARD
(6) MASTER CARDS
(5) 7 SEG DISPLAY CARDS
(10) 5 DISPLAY HOLDERS
(1) USB RELAYS CARD
(1) USB KEYBOARD EMULATOR CARD
(1) USB AXIS CARD

[Jerrymc3]

I found a clue to my memory problem. I turned on my cpu monitor while I was running FSX and the temp has jumped up to 72c. I don't know if a fan has failed or whats causing the problem but I've read that a hot cpu can cause memory issues.

[Jerrymc3]

Well, this time I think I've really found the problem. A tech suggested I run Memtest86. Took me a while to figure it out but I ran it for about 8 hours and it had over 250 errors. I called Corsair and they're sending me new memory.

[Jerrymc3]

Still haven't solved my OOM problem. It was suggested that I remove all my FSX addons and then reinstall them one by one. I was wondering, is it necessary to completely remove addons from the scenery library or can I just uncheck them?

[honkey]

Hi Jerry, did you find a solution to this problem? how many memory sticks do you have in each machine? If your mobo is dual channel then you need to sticks the same size/spec, triple channel = 3 sticks etc, give it a try