Gigabyte DS3 + E6300 Retail Bugging OUT! Help..

[aldy402]

I upgraded not long ago from a opty165/ballistix/and dfi expert to what I have now. Everything went smooth apon windows installation but now the computer keeps on shutting down and restarting on its own. I thought it was my OC so I ran it for stock settings and the problem still occurs. I cant even use my computer for 10 minutes without it shutting down

My question is, is it my power supply ? or my motherboard?

Most of the time when I go into the bios, under "PC HEALTH STATUS"
it reads

DDR18V - FAIL

new mobo ? or new psu? thanks in advance guys
I have also tried all the bioses from F4 final to F5E

 

[thomaslfessler]

Check your ram. 1 stick at a time. There may be some bad DS3's floating out there. My 1st one died in 90 minutes after XP finally installed. The install crashed multiple times in the XP install process. It took about a week with the NewEgg RMA processto get a replacement.

 

[aldy402]

any idea what "DDR18V - FAIL" means?

 

[thomaslfessler]

the powers of google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=DDR18V+-+FAIL&btnG=Google+Search

Perhaps a result of overclocking? How much voltage did you pump to the RAM? Worst case, just RMA the board and get a new one.

 

[thomaslfessler]

duplicate

 

[Orayn]

Check your ram. 1 stick at a time. There may be some bad DS3's floating out there. My 1st one died in 90 minutes after XP finally installed. The install crashed multiple times in the XP install process. It took about a week with the NewEgg RMA processto get a replacement.

You know what? The EXACT same thing happened to me. I had no idea what went wrong. I did notice two bent pins after I removed my E6600, though.