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I purchased and put together a computer about two weeks ago.. Ever since putting all the pieces together instead of satisfaction I have been receiving headaches.
My computer specs are as follows:
Gigabye EP45-UD3P
Intel E8400
Sapphire ATi HD 4850 X2
2x2gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator 1033mhz ram
Corsair TX750W
The first day I put together my PC, I had yet to buy a HD. Anxious as I was, I used an old HD from my previous computer. This caused many BSOD's and wouldn't let me do anything. Thinking it was the HD, I tried reinstalling Windows on it from an older PC and it in fact was not the HD. Thinking it was the ram I performed metest86+ on both ram sticks individually in DOS and they both passed.
I decided to RMA the motherboard, but on the day I was going to wrap it up and ship it -- Magically everything booted and it let me install windows instead of bsoding like normal. I was swept with joy, but still decided to RMA to NewEgg to rule out the motherboard.
When the new motherboard came, it worked flawlessly.. For about a week. I came home from school (After leaving the PC on for about 6~ hours) and came upon a blue screen. I restarted the computer thinking it was just one of the common XP BSODS but than it showed up again.
On every boot it would go to the Blue screen.. So I looked around my desk and inserted the Windows XP disk and began a format. Upon the completion of the initial Windows setup install, it blue screened once it got out of DOS mode.
I had googled the BSOD and have not come up with a solution yet. It was the DPC STOP BSOD.
The thing is, the computer worked for a WEEK with no problems. I was playing Team Fortress 2, CS:Source, and even Crysis with no problems. It just seems to have just stopped working all the sudden.
I have ran CPU burn in tests and that doesn't seem to be the issue. I ran a diagnostic on the HD and it passed the test. I even ran a memtest again and still no errors have been reported.
When I boot and reinstall Windows in the DOS mode it is perfect. But on the restart after, when it goes to the Windows XP loading bar screen it will freeze up and restart OR load into the next screen and than immediately restart. I have tried running fail-safe options, even tweaking the settings.
I have even RMA'ed the Power Supply to make sure it wasn't the power and to my dismay, it wasn't.
I am now RMAing the VGA in case that is the issue because it does run VERY hot to the touch, but from reviews that is normal for that card. Regardless, I am going to RMA since I am almost at the end of the 30 day period.
The BSOD's I have received are DPC Routine STOP and the BAD_POOL_CALLER.
Can someone please help me in regards to this. I am almost at the edge of sanity over this!!
I purchased and put together a computer about two weeks ago.. Ever since putting all the pieces together instead of satisfaction I have been receiving headaches.
My computer specs are as follows:
Gigabye EP45-UD3P
Intel E8400
Sapphire ATi HD 4850 X2
2x2gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator 1033mhz ram
Corsair TX750W
The first day I put together my PC, I had yet to buy a HD. Anxious as I was, I used an old HD from my previous computer. This caused many BSOD's and wouldn't let me do anything. Thinking it was the HD, I tried reinstalling Windows on it from an older PC and it in fact was not the HD. Thinking it was the ram I performed metest86+ on both ram sticks individually in DOS and they both passed.
I decided to RMA the motherboard, but on the day I was going to wrap it up and ship it -- Magically everything booted and it let me install windows instead of bsoding like normal. I was swept with joy, but still decided to RMA to NewEgg to rule out the motherboard.
When the new motherboard came, it worked flawlessly.. For about a week. I came home from school (After leaving the PC on for about 6~ hours) and came upon a blue screen. I restarted the computer thinking it was just one of the common XP BSODS but than it showed up again.
On every boot it would go to the Blue screen.. So I looked around my desk and inserted the Windows XP disk and began a format. Upon the completion of the initial Windows setup install, it blue screened once it got out of DOS mode.
I had googled the BSOD and have not come up with a solution yet. It was the DPC STOP BSOD.
The thing is, the computer worked for a WEEK with no problems. I was playing Team Fortress 2, CS:Source, and even Crysis with no problems. It just seems to have just stopped working all the sudden.
I have ran CPU burn in tests and that doesn't seem to be the issue. I ran a diagnostic on the HD and it passed the test. I even ran a memtest again and still no errors have been reported.
When I boot and reinstall Windows in the DOS mode it is perfect. But on the restart after, when it goes to the Windows XP loading bar screen it will freeze up and restart OR load into the next screen and than immediately restart. I have tried running fail-safe options, even tweaking the settings.
I have even RMA'ed the Power Supply to make sure it wasn't the power and to my dismay, it wasn't.
I am now RMAing the VGA in case that is the issue because it does run VERY hot to the touch, but from reviews that is normal for that card. Regardless, I am going to RMA since I am almost at the end of the 30 day period.
The BSOD's I have received are DPC Routine STOP and the BAD_POOL_CALLER.
Can someone please help me in regards to this. I am almost at the edge of sanity over this!!
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