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Weaksauce
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- Mar 14, 2004
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Hi guys
A computer I built for a friend has started suffering ill-health (for no user-generated reason it would seem).
When I got to it, the computer would barely last 5 minutes in Windows Vista Home Premium x64 edition, before a BSOD would appear - always the same error STOP 50 Page fault in nonpaged area. Because it's the peak of summer here I couldn't ignore the timing of this issue and so I underclocked the CPU to 1GHz (It's an Athlon64 x2 6000+) to no avail. I googled as you do, and upon learning that some programs can provoke this I ran msconfig and disabled startup items. However it would seem that no program is causing this, as I can do different tasks in random sequences and the BSOD still appears. I also have tried Safe Mode in case the video driver is at fault - but to no avail.
Learning also that STOP 50 can be the face of memory problems I ran memtest 3.4 - and discovered huge amounts of errors! This ruled out Vista and all software issues. I then tested each of the two Corsair sticks, find that one stick would lock the system within 30 seconds whilst the other stick would start chucking out errors after about 1 hour 20 minutes of testing. So I ordered some more ram (G.Skill) and installed that. It didn't come up with errors initially but test 5 did get errors after 30+ minutes - this is with both sticks in dual-channel mode. So it has improved but not fixed it! I have manually set the voltage as per the G.Skill rating (2.0-2.1v), and also tried running at very relaxed 6-6-6-18 timings. I am still encountering the STOP 50 error (albeit not as quickly as the previous corsair pair).
The motherboard is an ASUS CROSSHAIR Nforce 590 SLI and is powered by the excellent corsair 620W which everyone around here and abroad gives the thumbs up.
Looking at the motherboard I theorised the stock cooler was antagonising the modules by exhausting hot air directly onto them, and also noted that the CPU idled at 45-52 degrees celsius which seems quite hot!
I have ordered a Gigabyte Galaxy II water cooler, not for overclocking but to remove this situation so that the CPU heat is dumped elsewhere and the MOSFET fan it comes with can cool the big heatpipe setup and the modules too. But the question is, can the hot air coming from the the CPU cooler really cause the modules to fail, and can it damage them permanently like the Corsair modules seem to be? No overclocking here, since my friend has no patience for such things but it's still a high end part....
Your thoughts are appreciated
cheers
-cc
A computer I built for a friend has started suffering ill-health (for no user-generated reason it would seem).
When I got to it, the computer would barely last 5 minutes in Windows Vista Home Premium x64 edition, before a BSOD would appear - always the same error STOP 50 Page fault in nonpaged area. Because it's the peak of summer here I couldn't ignore the timing of this issue and so I underclocked the CPU to 1GHz (It's an Athlon64 x2 6000+) to no avail. I googled as you do, and upon learning that some programs can provoke this I ran msconfig and disabled startup items. However it would seem that no program is causing this, as I can do different tasks in random sequences and the BSOD still appears. I also have tried Safe Mode in case the video driver is at fault - but to no avail.
Learning also that STOP 50 can be the face of memory problems I ran memtest 3.4 - and discovered huge amounts of errors! This ruled out Vista and all software issues. I then tested each of the two Corsair sticks, find that one stick would lock the system within 30 seconds whilst the other stick would start chucking out errors after about 1 hour 20 minutes of testing. So I ordered some more ram (G.Skill) and installed that. It didn't come up with errors initially but test 5 did get errors after 30+ minutes - this is with both sticks in dual-channel mode. So it has improved but not fixed it! I have manually set the voltage as per the G.Skill rating (2.0-2.1v), and also tried running at very relaxed 6-6-6-18 timings. I am still encountering the STOP 50 error (albeit not as quickly as the previous corsair pair).
The motherboard is an ASUS CROSSHAIR Nforce 590 SLI and is powered by the excellent corsair 620W which everyone around here and abroad gives the thumbs up.
Looking at the motherboard I theorised the stock cooler was antagonising the modules by exhausting hot air directly onto them, and also noted that the CPU idled at 45-52 degrees celsius which seems quite hot!
I have ordered a Gigabyte Galaxy II water cooler, not for overclocking but to remove this situation so that the CPU heat is dumped elsewhere and the MOSFET fan it comes with can cool the big heatpipe setup and the modules too. But the question is, can the hot air coming from the the CPU cooler really cause the modules to fail, and can it damage them permanently like the Corsair modules seem to be? No overclocking here, since my friend has no patience for such things but it's still a high end part....
Your thoughts are appreciated
cheers
-cc