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polive

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Failed Memtest 86 lately BADLY. 17 errors in an hour. Computer randomly restarting, blue screening, games crashing to desktop. WTF??

Got an RMA from Newegg, going to send them in tomorrow I said to myself, I'll take 'em out later and go drink some beers now. Hehe.

Opened the case, started to take out the ram, uhhh now I remember why I really put it off in the first place. My XP120 totally covers channel 3 where one of the sticks is. No way I'm gonna take basically the whole computer apart right now, not this weekend. WTFFFF???

So I just reseated both of the sticks, even in the same slots, just popped the tabs and pushed the sticks back in the same slots.

Drank another beer and started Memtest 86 again, this time *one whole pass no errors.* I know that's not a long test to truly test ram, but it's still about 45 minutes of error-free 100% ram usage testing, where before it was BAD like I said before.

Gonna try some games now and see what's up with this thing.

edit: when I was in the case I noticed the HSF unit on my NV silencer had 1 or 2 thermal pads slightly OFF the 7800GTX. Like a mm or 2, but not sticking very well. Anybody know of a better way to get that thing to stick on there? They're on there ok for now I guess.

2nd edit: BF2 still crashing on me after 15 min or so, and I've already uninstalled COMPLETELY, reinstalled it today
 
running prime95 on both cores....

7 minutes into the torture test for CPU only, the one that doesn't really test the ram, core#1 failed, 1 fatal error; resulting vs expected sum was WAY off!

core 0 still going...
 
2 hrs 51 min on the other core....what should I do? Reseat CPU?
 
I suggest reseating. Although, it is entirely possible for 1 core to go bad and the other remain fine. Whether it will work with only 1 core I don't know. I'd assume it could and might be what you are experiencing.You may want to RMA your CPU, or try a different one. Could be a motherboard error also.
 
could be anything at this point.

now it won't even boot, every time i get to the windows looading screen it gives me a blue screen, sometimes with a "IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL" or "PAGING FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA" and sometimes a general "STOP" error message.

I've tried to boot up about 10 times today and it does it every time.

Right now I'm thinking either mobo or cpu at fault.
 
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