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New hardware is constantly crashing windows
Hi all,
I have recently purchased a new AMD 64-bit processor, and it (or something else) is giving me constant troubles with windows 2000 (SP4) constantly crashing. I have the following hardwa AMD 3200 64bit processor Gigabyte GA- K8VM800M motherboard 2x 512Mb DDR PC-3200 GeForce FX5200EP video card. The interesting thing is that win2k crashes (blue screen) when I only have one memory card in the motherboard. This happens regardless of the memory slot, or which of the two memory cards I use. I usually run the board with both memory card in use and it crashes (unreliably) every hour or so. This usually happens when I am using the internet, but it sometimes if I have no connection to the web, but I am doing something intensive like a compilation. I've tried installing XP-64bit and it does that same thing with that OS too. This is a most frustrating situation, and it sounds like a memory problem but I dont know why it works better with both memory cards in use?? Are there any memory testing programs that I can use to determine and pinpoint the fault? Or does anyone else have any ideas? I am running the memory bus speed at 200MHz (what I think it should be). There is no option with this BIOS to reduce that any further. Thanks in advance, Brett. |
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Try this:
http://www.memtest86.com/ "brett" wrote in message u... Hi all, I have recently purchased a new AMD 64-bit processor, and it (or something else) is giving me constant troubles with windows 2000 (SP4) constantly crashing. I have the following hardwa AMD 3200 64bit processor Gigabyte GA- K8VM800M motherboard 2x 512Mb DDR PC-3200 GeForce FX5200EP video card. The interesting thing is that win2k crashes (blue screen) when I only have one memory card in the motherboard. This happens regardless of the memory slot, or which of the two memory cards I use. I usually run the board with both memory card in use and it crashes (unreliably) every hour or so. This usually happens when I am using the internet, but it sometimes if I have no connection to the web, but I am doing something intensive like a compilation. I've tried installing XP-64bit and it does that same thing with that OS too. This is a most frustrating situation, and it sounds like a memory problem but I dont know why it works better with both memory cards in use?? Are there any memory testing programs that I can use to determine and pinpoint the fault? Or does anyone else have any ideas? I am running the memory bus speed at 200MHz (what I think it should be). There is no option with this BIOS to reduce that any further. Thanks in advance, Brett. |
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Try MEMTEST ... if errors, then up you rmemory voltage wee bit and see if
that helps clear up the problem. "Matthew Senn" wrote in message ... Try this: http://www.memtest86.com/ "brett" wrote in message u... Hi all, I have recently purchased a new AMD 64-bit processor, and it (or something else) is giving me constant troubles with windows 2000 (SP4) constantly crashing. I have the following hardwa AMD 3200 64bit processor Gigabyte GA- K8VM800M motherboard 2x 512Mb DDR PC-3200 GeForce FX5200EP video card. The interesting thing is that win2k crashes (blue screen) when I only have one memory card in the motherboard. This happens regardless of the memory slot, or which of the two memory cards I use. I usually run the board with both memory card in use and it crashes (unreliably) every hour or so. This usually happens when I am using the internet, but it sometimes if I have no connection to the web, but I am doing something intensive like a compilation. I've tried installing XP-64bit and it does that same thing with that OS too. This is a most frustrating situation, and it sounds like a memory problem but I dont know why it works better with both memory cards in use?? Are there any memory testing programs that I can use to determine and pinpoint the fault? Or does anyone else have any ideas? I am running the memory bus speed at 200MHz (what I think it should be). There is no option with this BIOS to reduce that any further. Thanks in advance, Brett. |
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Yep, memtest found errors and I've replaced the memory and its working like
it should have always. Phey... Thanks for the help guys! Brett. "Matthew Senn" wrote in message ... Try this: http://www.memtest86.com/ "brett" wrote in message u... Hi all, I have recently purchased a new AMD 64-bit processor, and it (or something else) is giving me constant troubles with windows 2000 (SP4) constantly crashing. I have the following hardwa AMD 3200 64bit processor Gigabyte GA- K8VM800M motherboard 2x 512Mb DDR PC-3200 GeForce FX5200EP video card. The interesting thing is that win2k crashes (blue screen) when I only have one memory card in the motherboard. This happens regardless of the memory slot, or which of the two memory cards I use. I usually run the board with both memory card in use and it crashes (unreliably) every hour or so. This usually happens when I am using the internet, but it sometimes if I have no connection to the web, but I am doing something intensive like a compilation. I've tried installing XP-64bit and it does that same thing with that OS too. This is a most frustrating situation, and it sounds like a memory problem but I dont know why it works better with both memory cards in use?? Are there any memory testing programs that I can use to determine and pinpoint the fault? Or does anyone else have any ideas? I am running the memory bus speed at 200MHz (what I think it should be). There is no option with this BIOS to reduce that any further. Thanks in advance, Brett. |
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