put on your BSOD thinking caps on!

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trajik78

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rig as it is:

AMD 300+Venice
MSI Neo2 Plat.
2x512 Geil Ultra-X PC4000
BBA 9800XT
Antec Smart Power 350w PSU

ok, so i was running a A8V Deluxe, with 1 stick of 512MB PQI in it. I bought 2x512MB Geil PC4400 but started having bad crashes to BSOD, memory dumps and right before the crashes i would hear the HD make a noise then die to BSOD with hexidecimal memory messages. This would happen about a couple minutes into WinXP being loaded, and then later on had some odd crashes even before WinX was loaded. I ran memtest86 on the ram @ DDR400 2-2-2-5 and it ran a bunch of loops w/o error.

Thought it was the MB so bought a MSI Neo2 Plat. having the same problems. Replaced the HD, same memory dump errors. So the only components that are the same between rigs are the PSU, RAM, VC, and CPU.

I've since put all BIOS settings to default. And have been trying to install XP even Win2000 and it'll format the HD properly, get to the install and then kaput to the BSOD. In XP i'll be able to install and run till i start DLing updates, speciffically it's BSOD'd on my 2 times while DLing or installing SP2 for XP. But it does it all over the place...

Could it be my PSU? RAM memtest86'd fine over night even at 2-2-2-5, plus it's brand new. I'm frazzled...been f'ing around with this problem for a week now.
 
try the sticks in another computer? The PSU shouldnt' be the issue.

you said specifically when your DLin sp2, it could be the network drivers, try another one.
 
mattgyver79 said:
What message do you get when it BSODs?
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well, when i was installing Win2000 i got something like this:

0x0000 IRQL_not_less_or_equal XXXX address 80445CCE baseit 80400000 date stamp NTOSKRNL.exe begining PHYS

thats not the complete screen, but a good portion of it.

I don't see how it could be the ram if it memtest's for such a long time w/o any errors. could it be low rails on the PSU? it doesn't seem to be Os specific cause i get the BSOD on winXP as well as 2000. the Antec PSU was running a PIII rig before this one and i never had this problem.
 
Have you tried goign back to the original config to see if you still get the error?
 
MaMMa said:
are you doing a clean format? is the CDs clean
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yup, both the Win2000 & WinXP cd's work fine. i've been going from a clean formatted HD. (crash happens on both HD's i've used)
 
trajik78 said:
IRQL_not_less_or_equal
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Generally you get this when there is a driver problem.

If your hard drive is SATA, did you press F6 and load the drivers? It says this at the beginning of the windows install.(xp or 2k)

You may also want to try stripping your comp down to the basics. ie. just psu mobo, ram, HD, video, and cdrom. Then attempt to install windows again.
 
my Geil PC4400 ram requires no less than 2.8v no matter what speed your running it at. that's what the problem was. :D
 
trajik78 said:
my Geil PC4400 ram requires no less than 2.8v no matter what speed your running it at. that's what the problem was. :D
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ram is often the culpit during OS rebuilds
 
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