Hmm, do you have any other memory intensive applications that you can load up and put your box thru the paces? To be honest with you it sounds like a memory problem. There is a distinct possibility that one or both of your modules have a bit of corruption at the upper levels. Meaning only when you load up a lot of information and are utilizing a good deal of the ram do you experience this problem.
RAM is cheap, it wouldn't hurt to pick up another 512mb DDR 2100 DIMM for $80. Also you might try removing one of your DIMMS and then loading up Maya and see what happens. If you don't have any problems then you have successfully trouble shooted it down to which DIMM is bad. If down to one DIMM and you still have the problem trying swapping it with the other one and repeat the test.
well guys, it seems to be the drivers...I reinstalled all drivers for my hardware (chipset etc..) A guy from our software supplier told me that bad drivers can cause the system to be unstable...
well i did some heavy dynamics calculations and it hasn't crashed (yet .....brr
good to hear its working. i have had this error a few times in win2K, but only ever with ECC ram so i'm pretty sure the message is just the way ECC checks and reports minor software glitches, which as you've found out can mean almost anything like drivers.
We've had similar experiences with the 6110's on our Dell Precision 530's at the office. In fact, I've had the virtually the same problem as the one you posted. On the surface it looks like a bad stick of RAM. All problems have surrounded the Wildcat drivers. The most recent driver version, is the least stable (of course).
For the record, we've found that the driver dated somewhere around Jan 2002 is the most stable (sorry don't have the version # handy, not at work right now).
ecc doesn't really protect against application errors; it more or less helps prevent hardware errors. i.e for some reason a bit gets flipped on that shouldn't be for whatever reason alignment of planets intergalactic radiation magnetic poles whatever
I guess I should have asked what you were doing when you got the crash.. if the computer was crashing and giving an error as such while rendering .. I would think ram but if it's crashing while you are working then video drivers seem to be a common problem.
.....brr