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fantomau

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Every now and then, My monitor will go black and the system has hard locked. I have to reboot.

Memtest doesnt show any errors at all and the system doesnt seem to be overheating unless 25c is too hot. Video card is around 39c also and the hdds are around 30-31c, So I dont think its heat-related.

Anyone know what could be causing this?
 
could just be a flaky ram chip on the vid card.. it happens sometimes..

sorry i have other advice
 
What should I do then? Should I keep an eye on it and see if it gets worse or?
 
Just a few mins ago, My system crashed with a BSOD that I couldnt read because it came up so quick and then rebooted.

Once windows came up, It said the system had recovered from a serious error and this is what it said:

BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : B5B11CC0 BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 804FCC49
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
 
doing a little googleing on the error codes, turns up possible ram errors (despite the no memtest errors).. it may be related to chipset as well... try resetting your bios, and leave it as stock as possible (enable stuff that you need to have, sound, raid if you need it...ect) dont over clock and leave voltage settings stock, this may be one of the times where "if you added new hardware... remove it and reboot" applys. now, becuase of the way modern vid cards mobos and cpus work, it could still be a vid ram error.. but i would still recommend resetting the bios.

back during the athlon barton days i was tweaking a chip .. it crashed, and to hard reset and reset the bios to get it to come back up.. when i got it back up, and got into the bios, the ram was running at 4v... the trippy part was, 4v was not even selectable in the bios.. glitches can be wierd.
 
It just crashed again and I ran memtest and encountered 156 errors, I rebooted and ran memtest again and encountered errors again.

I believe it may be safe to say that my ram is faulty? If memtest shows errors, Would a bios reset cure that or is the ram actually going bad?

I havent added or removed anything. It just started doing this in the last week.
 
fantomau said:
I believe it may be safe to say that my ram is faulty? If memtest shows errors, Would a bios reset cure that or is the ram actually going bad?
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Three reasons why memtest+ can show errors:
- RAM is faulty, time for an RMA
- Too little or too much voltage. Set the RAM voltage to the recommended specs.
- The RAM is overclocked too far

If you set everything back to their stock and recommended specs and still get errors, time for an RMA. The RAM is defective.
 
Is this what I should set it to:

Voltage Control
x -Voltage Control: user Define
x - CPU Core Voltage 1.350V
x - DDR2 Voltage 2.200 V
x - CPU VTT 1.2V Voltage 1.30 V
x - MCH 1.25V Voltage 1.30 V
x - ICH 1.05V Voltage 1.05 V
x - ICHIO 1.5V Voltage 1.50 V
x - DDR2 Reference Voltage 0%
x - CPU GTLREF 0&2 67%


Advanced Chipset Features
DRAM Timing Selectable: Manual
x - CAS Latency Time (tCL) 4
x - RAS# to CAS# Dealay (tRCD) 4
x - RAS# Precharge (tRP) 4
x - Precharge Delay (tRAS) 12
x - Refresh Cycle Time (tRFC) Auto
x - Write Recovery Time (tWR) Auto
x - Write to Read Delay (tWTR) Auto
x - Act to Act Time (tRRD) Auto
x - Read to Precharge (tRTP) Auto
PCIe Compliancy Mode v1.0a
 
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