Random restarts/crashes [HELP Please]

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TekRok

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recently purchased 2 gigs or Pc 3200 G-Skill Ram and an Arctic cooling for my X850XT. everything worked fine as the ram and the cooler on the card. i get 34C idle on the card when surfing the net or anything besides gaming.

the problem is that i recently have been getting Random restarts on my system, does it by itself without me doing anything. this happens when i am playing Battlefield, PlanetSide and FEAR. sometime the screen freezes or the system restarts on its own as i mentioned. i check the temp of the card right after it crashes and its about 45-50 which isnt the issue i hope. this only happens when i am playing games. the sccreen goes Black and then the sustem is crashed forcing me to press restart buton on my case.

i recently OC'd the card but had been gettin some artifacts so i decided not to mess with it for now since it was crashing. its set to default and still ****z out on me. i have no idea whats going on, My Cpu iis set to 2.5 instead of Default 2.2 i doubt its the CPU thats causing this.

Please help me guys, anything that can help me resolve this issue would get alot of thnx and <3, any suggetiong is worth trying.

my specs are as follows:
MSI K-8 Neo Nforce 4
AMD 3700+ San Diego, set to 2.5 OC'd
Powercolor X850XT set to default
2 Gig's of G Skill PC 3200


i got Arctic cooler on my Ati + ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED On my CPU
 
I've had a similar problem before. The cause of it was the RAM. I had it clocked in such a way that when i played games it would crash it or restart the system. What you should do is go get Memtest86 and run that on the pc, that can rule out RAM as the problem or identify it as the problem.

...Dan
 
i forgot to add but it is the Ram. when i put 2 sticks in which are 1 gig each the games screen turns black and the pc crashes when i put one stick in it and took the other one out it worked fine.

so i RMA'd the bad one and just got a new one 1 day ago and it did the same. same system crash and all the old symptoms.

i changed the slots they were in from 1-4,2-4,1-2, but nothing works.

should i RMA both and get a refund so i can get another brand? or somehoe fix this issue?
 
On MSI's site it says that the configs are Green DIMM 1 (Slot 1) and Purple DIMM 2 (slot 2) or Green DIMM 3 (slot 3) and Purple DIMM 4 (slot 4). You tried the first combination, you might as well try the other to make sure.

Did you try updating the BIOS? Possibly there was a fix released.

I'm not sure if you had the motherboard automatically set the RAM. But what you should do is set the RAM timings to what it is rated to be run at and make sure the voltage is at the correct setting. Run Memtest86 and if there was errors make the timings slower. It may work, if not then I can only assume you will have to switch to a different manufacturer. MSI has a list of supported memory on their site with links to the manufacturer's website:
Buffalo Technology
Crucial Technology
Corsair
Kingston Technology
Mushkin
OCZ Technology
Princeton Technology
Super Talent Technology

...Dan
 
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