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Ram troubles

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FlyingCows

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I've had 512 (2x 256) of pc2100 for awhile now and finally upgraded to 1024 (2x 512) of pc3200 DDR400...The problems im having is random rebots...ctd's and a VPU Recovery error when playing any type of 3D game. Heres my system:

AMD Athlon XP 1600+
1024 pc3200 DDR400 Kingston
ATI 9600 XT
2 Hard drives 40 gig and 120 gig(only shows up as 31.4 but thats a whole different problem)
Albatron KX600 Pro motherboard
420 Watt PSU
1 56X CDROM
1 Floppy drive

My case temp is at about 30C and CPU at 40C and video card at 35C so Im not having any overheating problems...and heres another odd thing. I figured my RAM was corrupted or something so I tryed sticking in just one stick of 512 of my new pc3200 DDR400 and everything ran fine...no errors...no problems at all. I tryed a single stick in all three of my RAM slots and it worked just fine everytime. So I thought it was my other stick that was messed up...did the same thing with it, put it through all three RAM slots and everytime no problems. I have run out of ideas on what to do...so any suggestions out there? Also my board says it supports DDR400 and all so that should not be a problem...Im just plain confused...
 
Well, first, get a copy of memtest86 and test each stick separately. Any errors come up, then that stick is bad.

If both are fine and don't work together, you might want to turn off VPU recover and Fast write in BIOS.

Also, disable auto rebooting in Windows XP so that you can see the Blue Screen of Death it spits out when the system reboots.
 
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