Okay guys, I've been having problems with my rig for about 2-3 months so far. I'll try to explain my problems as much as I can, but I was JUST done typing my whole post when...lucky me, my rig decided to crash - so please, spare me the flames if I seem a bit angry.
It started about 2 months ago when I got random BSODs when toying with my OC. It eventually came to a point where I had a similar problem as I had about a year ago. The simple fix was swapping out my RAM which I assumed was dead. However, when I threw in a brand new set of DDR2800 Ballistix, my rig would no longer boot. It would only boot with ONE stick in ONE SPECIFIC slot. I assumed that my memory controller was dead, however, when I threw in my RMA'd set of 1066 Ballistix, everything worked fine.
About 2-3 weeks later, I started to have problems just booting up. My rig would give me the error "system 32 file missing or corrupted" and would not let me boot into Windows. The fix was simply copying a file from the Windows Recovery Console. However, not knowing my Administrator password, I could only TRY to access the Recovery Console and then it would kick me out after 3 failed passwords. Yet....it seemed that my rig was intimidated at being changed and would soon work perfectly fine after I tried to access the Recovery Console. When I returned from college, I reformatted and got rid of that problem...only to be met with more...
Now, I STILL get random BSODs. They happen when loading new levels in Crysis, just playing Crysis, transferring music from my iPod to my HDD, and just leaving my rig on. There is no specific thing I can narrow it down too because I do not crash when encoding large files (about 13 VOB files each 800mb into 130mb AVI files) so I don't think it is my temps. Here are some of the errors the BSOD showed (at times it wouldn't show any error):
driver_corrupted_mmpool
RTENICXP.sys
ntfs.sys (prior to reformat)
some error that was related to my nVidia drivers (googled it, but don't remember exact name)
I have NO CLUE at all on what to do now. I'm thinking that it is a motherboard problem, but I want to see what you guys think. Sorry for the extremely long post.
Thanks!
It started about 2 months ago when I got random BSODs when toying with my OC. It eventually came to a point where I had a similar problem as I had about a year ago. The simple fix was swapping out my RAM which I assumed was dead. However, when I threw in a brand new set of DDR2800 Ballistix, my rig would no longer boot. It would only boot with ONE stick in ONE SPECIFIC slot. I assumed that my memory controller was dead, however, when I threw in my RMA'd set of 1066 Ballistix, everything worked fine.
About 2-3 weeks later, I started to have problems just booting up. My rig would give me the error "system 32 file missing or corrupted" and would not let me boot into Windows. The fix was simply copying a file from the Windows Recovery Console. However, not knowing my Administrator password, I could only TRY to access the Recovery Console and then it would kick me out after 3 failed passwords. Yet....it seemed that my rig was intimidated at being changed and would soon work perfectly fine after I tried to access the Recovery Console. When I returned from college, I reformatted and got rid of that problem...only to be met with more...
Now, I STILL get random BSODs. They happen when loading new levels in Crysis, just playing Crysis, transferring music from my iPod to my HDD, and just leaving my rig on. There is no specific thing I can narrow it down too because I do not crash when encoding large files (about 13 VOB files each 800mb into 130mb AVI files) so I don't think it is my temps. Here are some of the errors the BSOD showed (at times it wouldn't show any error):
driver_corrupted_mmpool
RTENICXP.sys
ntfs.sys (prior to reformat)
some error that was related to my nVidia drivers (googled it, but don't remember exact name)
I have NO CLUE at all on what to do now. I'm thinking that it is a motherboard problem, but I want to see what you guys think. Sorry for the extremely long post.
Thanks!