Hi there, I have no hair left after 4 weeks of bluescreens. So any help would be appreciated.
First My (wanted) Specs:
SonataIII case w/ 500w PS
GA-P35-DS3L
Q6600 quad core
Seagate 500gb HD
PNY 8800gt
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1066mhz
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First Install:
Vista 64 business
4x1 gig RAM
Default Bios Settings
This setup runs for three or four days, then I start to get blue screens.. first while playing audiosurf & warcraft III, then in firefox, windows explorer etc.
I do some research and find out that people are having a lot of problems with this board and RAM in conjunction. Load Memtest up and sure enough, it's erroring. After playing with my voltages & timings I pass an overnight Memtest after downclocking to 800mhz.
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Second Install:
Vista 64 business
4x1 gig RAM (downclocked to 800mhz)
Tweeked Bios Settings (overvoltage +4)
Same thing.. After a few days, it starts to bluescreen. Thinking maybe it's a driver incompatibility. Try different video card drivers (as recommeneded by some on forums) and still blue screening. I Figure maybe its vista. I also flashed the bios in there.
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Third Install:
XP64
4x1gig RAM
Tweeked Bios Settings (overvoltage +4)
Bluescreens (after a couple days). I get Everest to check my temperatures and nothing is overheating. Back to Memtest to check 2 dimms at a time.
First set: A few errors in a 14 hour test (default bios settings)
Second set: No Errors in a 11 hour test (default bios settings). I figure it's the one set of RAM. This leads to:
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Fourth Install
XP64
2x1gig RAM
Default bios settings.
Installed windows on Thursday. Been playing games, burning dvds working in photoshop no problem. And then this morning.. another bluescreen.
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After some of these blue screens, windows won't load up at all, it just restarts (safe, repair, normal) and running memtest reveals a lot of errors (100000+)
Is there something simple I am overlooking? Or am I doomed to buy a different set of "compatible" RAM for this motherboard? (or a motherboard that is compatible with my RAM).
Thanks for any help!
First My (wanted) Specs:
SonataIII case w/ 500w PS
GA-P35-DS3L
Q6600 quad core
Seagate 500gb HD
PNY 8800gt
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1066mhz
--------------------------------------------------
First Install:
Vista 64 business
4x1 gig RAM
Default Bios Settings
This setup runs for three or four days, then I start to get blue screens.. first while playing audiosurf & warcraft III, then in firefox, windows explorer etc.
I do some research and find out that people are having a lot of problems with this board and RAM in conjunction. Load Memtest up and sure enough, it's erroring. After playing with my voltages & timings I pass an overnight Memtest after downclocking to 800mhz.
--------------------------------------------------
Second Install:
Vista 64 business
4x1 gig RAM (downclocked to 800mhz)
Tweeked Bios Settings (overvoltage +4)
Same thing.. After a few days, it starts to bluescreen. Thinking maybe it's a driver incompatibility. Try different video card drivers (as recommeneded by some on forums) and still blue screening. I Figure maybe its vista. I also flashed the bios in there.
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Third Install:
XP64
4x1gig RAM
Tweeked Bios Settings (overvoltage +4)
Bluescreens (after a couple days). I get Everest to check my temperatures and nothing is overheating. Back to Memtest to check 2 dimms at a time.
First set: A few errors in a 14 hour test (default bios settings)
Second set: No Errors in a 11 hour test (default bios settings). I figure it's the one set of RAM. This leads to:
---------------------------------------------------
Fourth Install
XP64
2x1gig RAM
Default bios settings.
Installed windows on Thursday. Been playing games, burning dvds working in photoshop no problem. And then this morning.. another bluescreen.
----------------------------------------------------
After some of these blue screens, windows won't load up at all, it just restarts (safe, repair, normal) and running memtest reveals a lot of errors (100000+)
Is there something simple I am overlooking? Or am I doomed to buy a different set of "compatible" RAM for this motherboard? (or a motherboard that is compatible with my RAM).
Thanks for any help!
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