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Group Zebra

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I put together a pc for a friend with the following specs:

e8500
8800 GTS(G92)
GA-EP45-DS3L
400gb HDD
4gb 1066 G.Skill
Corsair 620HX

Right away trying to install Vista 64 it would error during the install(thought maybe it was a disk problem as it was a burned copy) so I tried a legitimate copy of XP 32 and that installed fine. Thinking it had just been a faulty burn or something I figured all was well and installed all the drivers but now the pc randomly locks up. I've tried 3DMark06 and GRID in a quick effort to make it lock up so I can swap out parts to find the culprit but like I stated before the lockups seem completely random regardless of whether I'm idle on the desktop or running a program. Is the hard drive to blame? Any ideas on this issue would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
 
remove one of the dimms and try installing Vista again, it should work out fine this time ;)
 
Group Zebra said:
I forgot I tried that too with no success.
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What are your temps like on your cpu? If you have any alternative parts (HDD, Video card, etc) try swapping them out one at a time to see if anything seems like the culprit. You've tried with both of the dimm's 1 at a time right? Have you tried all 4 dimm slots as well?
 
The temps are in the low 40's and I've tried with only 1 dimm. I do have spare parts I can swap out, my only issue is this computer can go on for hours without freezing, so I'd have to wait long periods of time between each part swap to rule out whether that part was the issue or not.
 
Did you try putting that 1 DIMM in each of the 4 DIMM slots? Just to make sure there's nothing wrong with some or all of the DIMM slots. I'd test the GPU next probably but yeah unfortunately these are probably the trickiest things to figure out. You've tried the usual tests like memtest right?
 
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