Faulty RAM?

ive been having computer freezes during benchmark programs and games, with no response to any actions whatsoever, so the only thing i can do is push reset button or hold the power button to shut my comp down. i got 2 gigs of ddr2 mem hooked up. when i check event viewer, theres one thing that goes like this:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000fe (0x00000002, 0x87018008, 0x86fd3208, 0x897bf458). A full dump was not saved.

could faulty RAM be the culprit?

download memtest (http://www.memtest.org/) and run test five on that. When you boot into memtest hit c then 2 then 5 then 5 and enter twice then let it sit and see if it gets errors. If it gets errors then try looser timings or slower speeds if that works below stock settings rma the ram. How are your temperatures?

with EVEREST and the mobo driver utility, my cpu temps are 32 idle and 50 under load/playing game. my gfx card idles at 42 and is 60 at load. unfortunately, i dont have a floppy drive installed yet. is there any other way to test mem?

you can burn it to a cd with the iso they provide

ic, one question. could it be that my gfx card got messed up? i tried ocing it before, and used ATI tool to find out max mem and core speeds. once it got max mem core speed at 540, it shuts down. i ran it a coupla times. do u think i somehow damaged my gfx card?

I dont think so I mean your temps while a bit high are not unusual or out of spec. Just run memtest+ and see what it says.