First of all hello, I am new here, and new to the computer building scene.
I have just finished constructing a new computer intended to replace my aging 2003 dell workstation. parts are as follows:
Intel Q6600 2.4ghz quad core processor
Gigabyte UD3R motherboard
G.Skill DDR1000 ram (4x2gb=8gb)
Western Digital 500gb 7200rpm HD
Samsung DVDRW
EVGA GTX260 core 216 superclocked
Antec Quattro 1000W psu
Antec 1200 Case
Running on Windows vista home premium.
First of all the system runs fantastic. Great performance... that is until it CRASHES. The computer has a tendency to completely freeze for no reason. Remains unresponsive to any keystrokes or anything. Just freezes. This has happened during a screen saver, during nothing, during gaming, etc. Just freezes.
I know the computer isn't overheating, cpu is running at a low 35c, graphics around 50c, and the antec 1200 case is a windtunnel.
I have inquired on several other forums and I am now led to believe my memory is not configured properly in the BIOS. I don't speak computer so this is all very new and hard for me to understand. The gigabyte manual doesn't seem to cater to the unknowledgeable so I wasn't able to figure this out myself.
I was able to find the memory timings and fix these to the proper values, but the system still crashes. I personally don't think there is anything wrong with the sticks, and doubt that two separately packaged pairs would be reacting the same way (i've been switching them in and out and still incurred the problem).
I have run memtest and windows memory diagnostic, with several errors.
The one thing I haven't been able to check and fix is the voltage on the memory. I was hoping this is where you guys could help me, as I think it might be set up incorrectly. From what I understand memory can be extremely picky about these settings. Also if there are other settings I could tweak within the memory to make them more stable, and more importantly not freeze my computer, that would be ideal.
This is really bumming me out so any assistance would really be appreciated.
Thank you.
I have just finished constructing a new computer intended to replace my aging 2003 dell workstation. parts are as follows:
Intel Q6600 2.4ghz quad core processor
Gigabyte UD3R motherboard
G.Skill DDR1000 ram (4x2gb=8gb)
Western Digital 500gb 7200rpm HD
Samsung DVDRW
EVGA GTX260 core 216 superclocked
Antec Quattro 1000W psu
Antec 1200 Case
Running on Windows vista home premium.
First of all the system runs fantastic. Great performance... that is until it CRASHES. The computer has a tendency to completely freeze for no reason. Remains unresponsive to any keystrokes or anything. Just freezes. This has happened during a screen saver, during nothing, during gaming, etc. Just freezes.
I know the computer isn't overheating, cpu is running at a low 35c, graphics around 50c, and the antec 1200 case is a windtunnel.
I have inquired on several other forums and I am now led to believe my memory is not configured properly in the BIOS. I don't speak computer so this is all very new and hard for me to understand. The gigabyte manual doesn't seem to cater to the unknowledgeable so I wasn't able to figure this out myself.
I was able to find the memory timings and fix these to the proper values, but the system still crashes. I personally don't think there is anything wrong with the sticks, and doubt that two separately packaged pairs would be reacting the same way (i've been switching them in and out and still incurred the problem).
I have run memtest and windows memory diagnostic, with several errors.
The one thing I haven't been able to check and fix is the voltage on the memory. I was hoping this is where you guys could help me, as I think it might be set up incorrectly. From what I understand memory can be extremely picky about these settings. Also if there are other settings I could tweak within the memory to make them more stable, and more importantly not freeze my computer, that would be ideal.
This is really bumming me out so any assistance would really be appreciated.
Thank you.
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