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Greetings,
This will be a long post, but I need to give you all as much info as possible from the beginning.
My Rig:
ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe BIOS 1015
A64 3500+ (90nm)
2GB (512X4) Corsair XMS LL Pro
Enermax 535W PSU (24 pin/SLI ready)
2 BFG 6800GT OC's (only 1 installed now) using 81.94's
SB Audigy 2 ZX
Zalman AlCu CPU cooler
1 74GB WD Raptor Sata
1 Seagate 200GB Sata (no raid for either)
WinXP Pro SP2 installed
nForce 4 drivers 6.70
Within the past month, my pc would get BSOD's randomly. Now they are happening constantly. One of my BFG's stopped working, so I RMA'd it a got a replacement. After putting the "new" card in, everything ran fine for a couple of days, and then the BSOD's started becoming more frequent. SO, I removed one of them, and only ran with one. Yes, I removed the SLI bridge, and put the dongle back to single card position. At first, I had the machine reboot on error, so I could not see the message, but turned that off so I could record it. Yesterday, I opened up my box to look for loose connections, etc. I decided to reset my Bios, so I removed the Mobo battery, and put it back in. I rebooted, and got 1 long beep, 2 short beeps. Looked that up, said it could be video, etc., so, I pulled the battery out again, unplugged the AC to it and left it out for a minute. Putting it back in, it booted fine, and ran perfectly the entire day. I could surf, play BF2 online, do everything normally, with no BSOD's
Now today, at about 4pm, I started to get the BSOD's again. between then and 6pm, i got the following STOP messages:
(only listing the pertinent info...)
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
STOP ...........D1 (Omitting all the zeroes)
NVNRM.SYS
and
STOP .......7E
and
STOP.........8E
NV4_disp.dll (obviously nVidia card)
and
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
STOP .........1A
and
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
and
STOP .......7E
acpi.sys
and
STOP ...........8E
win32k.sys
Seems each time is different... Then, after those, I got a message on boot saying that Windows/system32/config/system is missing or corrupt. Put in your WIndows CD, and press "r" to repair.
So, I boot Win CD, hit r, it goes to recovery console. Having no clue what to do, I exit, and reboot into hard drive at which time windows loads normally. Some times I can get all the way into windows, open up forefox, check email, but usually withing 2 or 3 minutes, BANG! BSOD.
I have also seen the OS operating.... well, weird. I'll being surfing using firefox, sometimes for hours, sometimes after I open it, it will crash and close. So, I open up IE, and same things happen, crash and close. So, I open up Opera, and after a short while, it crashes and closes as well.
After doing some reading up on these types of problems,. I noticed it can be hardware/device drivers/OS. I'm guessing I'll have to do a re-install of Windows, but wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking any hardware issues. I checked my Mobo/CPU temps, Vcore, Vdimm, etc., and all were well within limits. I also downloaded and ran MEMTEST 86, and it ran over 2 full times (with standard tests selected) without reporting any errors. I've exchanged video cards to see if that was it, but it happens with either one inside it.
I realize it could be anything, even as silly as replacing the battery in my Mobo. But, before I wipe and re-install windows, (fortunately, I have my Raptor partitioned, and keep windows on C:\, and most everything else on other partitions) make back-ups of my mail/favorites/documents, I want to make sure that there's something I'm not obviously overlooking.
At this point, I have to use my son's box to post this, since I cannot even boot into windows now without another BSOD.
All fans are running, I've felt the ram, VC, CPU cooler, etc., so I do not believe it is a heat related issue.
I bought everything but the second vc back in February of this year, and have not had any problems (other than that POS chipset fan ASUS had on the Mobo, but got the free replacment) until the past month.
Update: Trying to do a clean install of Windows, but still getting BSOD's... I took out 2 sticks of ram, and was able to finally complete a fresh install of windows. But, after a couple of hours, both IE and firefox kept crashing and closing. Then, I wouldn't get a BSOD, but the display went blank, and pc locked up.
Tried to boot this morning, and no display at all, so I changed video cards, and it's up for the moment for this post. I've already RMA'd one of my BFG's already, looks like the one I got back from RMA crapped out again.
It's still not right...random lockups, still getting BSOD's... all after a fresh reinstall of windows.
One thing I never noticed before, after having 1GB (2X512) in my pc, I see on the post screen that it says I have 1GB, but it says single channel 64 bit. I have 1 stick in the black slot, and 1 in the blue slot directly next to it. Is that normal?
I posted this at another site two days ago, and have gotten no replies at all... Should have came here first...
Any suggestions?
This will be a long post, but I need to give you all as much info as possible from the beginning.
My Rig:
ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe BIOS 1015
A64 3500+ (90nm)
2GB (512X4) Corsair XMS LL Pro
Enermax 535W PSU (24 pin/SLI ready)
2 BFG 6800GT OC's (only 1 installed now) using 81.94's
SB Audigy 2 ZX
Zalman AlCu CPU cooler
1 74GB WD Raptor Sata
1 Seagate 200GB Sata (no raid for either)
WinXP Pro SP2 installed
nForce 4 drivers 6.70
Within the past month, my pc would get BSOD's randomly. Now they are happening constantly. One of my BFG's stopped working, so I RMA'd it a got a replacement. After putting the "new" card in, everything ran fine for a couple of days, and then the BSOD's started becoming more frequent. SO, I removed one of them, and only ran with one. Yes, I removed the SLI bridge, and put the dongle back to single card position. At first, I had the machine reboot on error, so I could not see the message, but turned that off so I could record it. Yesterday, I opened up my box to look for loose connections, etc. I decided to reset my Bios, so I removed the Mobo battery, and put it back in. I rebooted, and got 1 long beep, 2 short beeps. Looked that up, said it could be video, etc., so, I pulled the battery out again, unplugged the AC to it and left it out for a minute. Putting it back in, it booted fine, and ran perfectly the entire day. I could surf, play BF2 online, do everything normally, with no BSOD's
Now today, at about 4pm, I started to get the BSOD's again. between then and 6pm, i got the following STOP messages:
(only listing the pertinent info...)
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
STOP ...........D1 (Omitting all the zeroes)
NVNRM.SYS
and
STOP .......7E
and
STOP.........8E
NV4_disp.dll (obviously nVidia card)
and
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
STOP .........1A
and
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
and
STOP .......7E
acpi.sys
and
STOP ...........8E
win32k.sys
Seems each time is different... Then, after those, I got a message on boot saying that Windows/system32/config/system is missing or corrupt. Put in your WIndows CD, and press "r" to repair.
So, I boot Win CD, hit r, it goes to recovery console. Having no clue what to do, I exit, and reboot into hard drive at which time windows loads normally. Some times I can get all the way into windows, open up forefox, check email, but usually withing 2 or 3 minutes, BANG! BSOD.
I have also seen the OS operating.... well, weird. I'll being surfing using firefox, sometimes for hours, sometimes after I open it, it will crash and close. So, I open up IE, and same things happen, crash and close. So, I open up Opera, and after a short while, it crashes and closes as well.
After doing some reading up on these types of problems,. I noticed it can be hardware/device drivers/OS. I'm guessing I'll have to do a re-install of Windows, but wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking any hardware issues. I checked my Mobo/CPU temps, Vcore, Vdimm, etc., and all were well within limits. I also downloaded and ran MEMTEST 86, and it ran over 2 full times (with standard tests selected) without reporting any errors. I've exchanged video cards to see if that was it, but it happens with either one inside it.
I realize it could be anything, even as silly as replacing the battery in my Mobo. But, before I wipe and re-install windows, (fortunately, I have my Raptor partitioned, and keep windows on C:\, and most everything else on other partitions) make back-ups of my mail/favorites/documents, I want to make sure that there's something I'm not obviously overlooking.
At this point, I have to use my son's box to post this, since I cannot even boot into windows now without another BSOD.
All fans are running, I've felt the ram, VC, CPU cooler, etc., so I do not believe it is a heat related issue.
I bought everything but the second vc back in February of this year, and have not had any problems (other than that POS chipset fan ASUS had on the Mobo, but got the free replacment) until the past month.
Update: Trying to do a clean install of Windows, but still getting BSOD's... I took out 2 sticks of ram, and was able to finally complete a fresh install of windows. But, after a couple of hours, both IE and firefox kept crashing and closing. Then, I wouldn't get a BSOD, but the display went blank, and pc locked up.
Tried to boot this morning, and no display at all, so I changed video cards, and it's up for the moment for this post. I've already RMA'd one of my BFG's already, looks like the one I got back from RMA crapped out again.
It's still not right...random lockups, still getting BSOD's... all after a fresh reinstall of windows.
One thing I never noticed before, after having 1GB (2X512) in my pc, I see on the post screen that it says I have 1GB, but it says single channel 64 bit. I have 1 stick in the black slot, and 1 in the blue slot directly next to it. Is that normal?
I posted this at another site two days ago, and have gotten no replies at all... Should have came here first...
Any suggestions?
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