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Big problem, need help, random restarts

Originally posted by djnes
Yes...I do.
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the reason i was asking was b/c the original poster replied sardonically to your suggestion to him to get a prebuilt from Dell or HP, he proceeded to say something along the lines of "hah, look at his [djines] location, Hewlett Packard!"

so i was just trying to explain to the original poster that it's not that you don't know wtf you're talking about; you just happen to work at HP.
 
yay, my ram diden't come today, this is so gay, any more ideas? it is still freezing even with my cd drive out, and just my 2 ide drives on the same cable into my mobo, UGH
 
I know that you still have the old ram in there that everyone suspects is bad.

Please, run memtest so we can either point a finger at it for certain or rule it out as a cause.


In the other thread, didn't you say that you bought this board used? Did you contact the other owner to find out if this board was doing the same thing for him (probably why it was sold in the first place).

Try taking out that second drive too. For right now, whatever you don't need to have in there to boot, take it out and set it to the side.
 
You are running your memroy overclocked. IT wont handle pc3200 speeds. In addition, most i875/and i865 boards foul up auto spd , go manual and change your ratio.

Or get some good pc3200 and still set your timings manualy.

Finaly , my nephew had that board and he had to boost voltage a tenth as well on the mem
 
I will take this CD rom out and try it in my other computer.

My timings are 2 6 3 3, which is what they are sypposed to be, I will go run mem test now.
 
I just put the CD in and it booted up and started doing some tests to I let it go.

After 27 Minutes all I saw was that it said 2 passed, 104576 errors and 0 ECC errors. I really dun know anything about memtest so just let me know what I should look for.

After 58 Minutes all I saw was that it said 5 passed, 2057542 errors and 0 ECC errors. I am pretty shure that that ain't good.
 
Your ram through Corsair does have a lifetime warrantee on it, so just call up Corsair and have them ship you a replacement (even if you don't need it after you get the RMA you could sell it on the forums). BTW did you already say what kind of ram you had shipping in? What brand and model was it --I'm just curious what you have coming in.
 
I just got my new ram. Installed it and went into windows and it still did it. Whats going on guys?
 
As blackrino already asked, you mentioned you bought the board used. Have you contacted the seller for a return or atleast to see if the board was bad before?

SDK, you have a very bad habit of ignoring questions posted to you in your own thread. Reread and answer them, because they may hold the key to an answer. None of us can easily fix a problem on a computer we are not sitting in front of you. All we can do is suggest things. If you ignore our suggestions, your ignoring you help. At this point, I would return the board to the seller, take your refund a buy a new board.
 
OK SDK lets have a rundown of everything you have installed in that computer right now --please specify every installed component. Oh and also do me a favor and run memtest 86 for me again on the new kingston ram. Report back and we'll go at it again.
 
Hardware in-

KingWin 424 Custom Modded
P4 2.4C -
Abit IC7-G
CoolerMaster Aero 4 - Lite, lapped with AS3
120G Western Digital(M), 80G IMB(S)
Enermax 465W PSU
ATi 9800 Pro
2 x 256 Kingston 3500 Dual Channel

I dun't think there is anything that I forgot.

The 120G is in 3 partitions, 10, 70, 40, with windows on the 10. On my 80 I have all my old media files ect ect.

I am trying to install windows again now, after that if its still a no go I will get this cd drive and run mem test.
 
Good news, well not really. I ran memtest again with the ram at, 2.6V, one stick in dimm1, and 1 stick in dimm2, it errored on every test. Timings in BIOS read 2 7 3 3. Could it be the slot on the board, should I try 3 and 4? Just one stick? Thanks

I just uped it to 2.8V it seems to be doing better, gone for 20 min 2 passes and no errors, last time it errored like after maybe 15 mintues.

GOT ANY MORE IDEAS?
 
I'm not surprised you had to up the voltage on the kingston ram, I had to similarly up the voltage on Kingston PC3200 BH-5 sticks to 2.7Vdimm to get an IC7-G Max3 stable. Howerver, I don't know if your ram is BH-5 BH-6 or CH-5, if I had to guess I'd say it was either BH-6 or CH-5 because BH-5 isn't produced anymore and I was one of the last people to grab some BH-5 sticks from Newegg 2 months ago, so you almost certainly (and most unfortunately for you) don't have BH-5. I do remember reading somewhere that the IC7 series didn't play nice with BH-6 or CH-5 ram but I don't remeber who said that or where it was, and I'm sure there are other posters out here who have perfectly stable and oc'd systems running on thier IC7's so just nevermind I said that. Assuming you haven't gotten everything already fixed and stable, I'd appreciate it If you would do me the favor of:
1) Take out that 80 gig HD from your computer for now.
2) If you happen to have a IDE HD somewhere just lying around with nothing important on it (ie so you can format it) then take out your 120Gig HD with all those partitions and stick the other HD in there for now. Otherwise, if you don't have anything on that multipartitioned HD (except the nonworking installation of windows), then go ahead and wipe all the partitions, then repartition it making sure that the Primary (first) partition you create is the 10gig one for your windows install (if using Linux to partition, be sure to flag it as the boot partition).
3) I can't tell if your 120Gig HD is SATA or IDE, so if its SATA, then be certain to press F6 as soon as the windows CD starts the installatoin thing, so you can install the proper RAID drivers for your INtel Chipset SATA controller).
4) Reformat the drive using the windows CD (use the slow method) and install everything.

Hopefully those steps along with your upping the voltage on ram (to eliminate ram errors) will yield a stable working computer.
Oh and BTW, make sure you leave Memtest86 running for an extended period of time to be certain errors won't show later (at least 10 passes is necessary IMO).
 
After school I will try and wipe out partitions. I put my files on my 120 and took that out, and tried to install to my 80 in 10 and 70, I will try again after school.

It is IDE
 
A week ago yesterday,he is a nice guy and said I can file a claim with the post office, or ship it back for refund.
 
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