Kilamon
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 Posted: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:09:20 Post Subject: |
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I would suspect Ram, the power supply or, since you got past post, a bad windows install. The easist place to start would be the ram. Grab a copy Memtest86+ ver1.65 http://www.memtest.org/ and Prime95 ver. 24.14 http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm so you can do some testing. Have these handy. Start by running memtest (read the docs on it before you begin) and if you can boot and test out your ram with Memtest #5 and the long memtest for 8-10 hours, then move on to reinstalling windows. Assuming that you're successful, with that, run Prime in the torture test mode and see how long you can go with that. If you can get 16 hours and you're stable then congrats, you're all fixed.
If memtest fails, then replace the ram.  Easy. Try moving the slots too. On my DFI, I run my ram in slots 2 and 4 (the orange ones) and they do better there than in the other slots. You can also try flashing the bios, but don't do both at the same time. Single steps, one at a time. If you can memtest stable, move on as above. If you STILL receive errors, or windows installs flaky even though you got a stable memtest, or prime fails, then you'll have a bad bios setting or bad power.
To be honest, with all those peripherals, 430w seems a little low and I'd move up to an OCZ 520w, but that's up to you. I'm using an Ultra 500w and it's running like a champ, though I'd like to see my voltages just a little higher to my components since I'm unable to overclock as much as I could due to that. *shrug*
Try the above and post back with your results. |
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