BSOD issue, can't pin it down

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Manaknight

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so ok,

I have a friend whose system i built back in july. Her setup is as follow

e6550
abit ip35e
4x1gb ram timed right and memtested/orthos'd
8800gt
1x dvdr
3x hard drives
corsair hx550 psu

so i built it back in july, its a dual boot xp64/vista. No problems until about 2.5 weeks ago. It starts bluescreening. Of course the answer from her is "the computer is rebooting" and then i coax out that it bluescreens, but of course she doesn't pay attention to the message. i go over, run memtest and a set of sticks are bad, swap them with my "when things bsod" set and it works again, ram memtest a few more times with no errors, went into windows and ran 3dmark06, orthos for a few hours, and went into WoW, again no problems. satisfied i leave. Now shes having blue screens again a few days later. it does it in both xp and vista, though more frequent in xp. I finally got her to start recording errors

had a few with no message just the numeric codes, had one driver irql, which i tracked down and killed, and had one internal power system error...and apparently now more recently a boot pool error, mixed in with more of the non specific errors.

Again not sure whats going on, redid all drivers last time i was there, fixed the mem, its orthos stable, 3dmark stable, memtest stable, but a day or two goes by and something freaks. Is this the sign of a bad motherboard? graphics card(unlikely)? or psu(i'm thinking also relatively unlikely).

any input is welcome.
 
no and no,

i got the system on my bench here at home...of course it's sitting here and hasn't crashed in 5 hours
 
Sometimes running all four slots filled plays havoc with the chipset and reduces component life. Test with 2 sticks. Open task manager and see exactly how much memory is really used under load. I rarely use even 2 gigs in Vista x64. Hey, that's what page files are for.
 
Running all 4 slots also needs a slight voltage boost for the MCH, since P35 boards have problems powering that 4th slot. Did you raise the MCH at all? If not, I'd give it a tiny bump and give it back to her, since its obviously not crashing with you. She may also need a UPS.
 
right i caught the voltage issue last night. I was installing xp32 instead of 64, and it hit me with a win32k.sys bsod in setup, that triggered my response of checking the memory, because i only get that if the memory isn't timed right, is erroring, or occasionally if the windows install chokes on a sata dvd drive.

the 4th slot went nuts in memtest, like tens of thousands of errors, moved that ram into slot 1 alone, perfect, ran it in slot 4 alone, perfect. all sticks and slots check out alone.

upped the voltage, moved the lower voltage sticks into 2 and 4 slots and it seems to be behaving now, memtested it for a few hours with all sticks in with no issues.

gf is putting windows on it for me while i'm at work, and my google messenger hasn't gone off with problems, will update if it blows up again. Just frustrating because with this particular friend i purposely used good parts to avoid as many headaches as possible.

it may very well be at least in part poor power at her house. her brothers system, which i also built, will occasionally act erratic the same way and i am usually unable to reproduce it, and it usually goes away after a while.
 
enginurd said:
UPS' would be a good investments for them. :p
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i know...their family is really bizarre though, like her dad (mind you shes 21 so...) went apeshit because she bought one of those newegg printer deals for school, because like...computer technology shouldn't cost money or something. yet he has a giant tv and high end receiver and thats ok. *shrug* i just hate having to explain stuff like ups and how its a good investment to people like that. the kicker is its her money and he still goes nuts.


but yeah slight rant off topic ;p

windows is going in smoothly now
 
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