Zelida

I've concluded that it's not my RAM, that it is the slots the RAM is read from. More so exactly, "channel 1" as my friend has told me. And channel one for RAM is slots 1 and 2 and I have TWO RAM chips and either way I put the RAM chips in, I'll have the error, since it affects 2/3 of the slots. I could easily just buy a 1GB stick and just use slot 3 for RAM, but I'll miss out on adding lots of RAM later on with the other slots. Basically, I'm sending my motherboard back and getting a new one. Thanks all for helping me out! ^_^

I believe I have my BIOS already updated. I'm going to try the switching RAM chip to different slots. I've been testing one RAM chip in the 3rd slot. I have yet to test the second RAM chip in the 3rd slot... but I really don't think it's the slots. I really believe that this motherboard just doesn't support my Kingston PC3200 512MB RAM, and I should try and get lower speed or PC3200 RAM that A7N8X-E Deluxe supports. Thanks.

Wow, clicked the link to your computer. Nice Noticed your RAM is PC2700. Any particular reason why it's not PC3200? Trying to learn these little details so I don't make this mistake again.

It HAS to be the RAM. Took one stick out last night and there have been no restarts for over 11 hours and usually within 11 hours, I get tons of restarts. Just no clue if it's a bad RAM chip itself, or the compatibility of the motherboard and RAM... because the Asus website doesn't list my PC3200 512MB Kingston RAM in the list.

I really could use 1GB of RAM in this computer though, so I need to find a way to use 1GB. Don't think mixing 3200 and 2700 would work. Never tried that. Probably a bad idea.

Sadly my Kingson 512MB PC3200 RAM is not listed. There are 256MB listed, but not 512MB... I have a friend that uses the same motherboard who uses Kingston 2700 512MB... I suppose using two sticks of 3200 isn't good, or one of my RAM sticks went bad. Because basically, it's been 11 hours since I took one RAM stick out and there have been no restarts. Wow.

I'm told that it supports Kingston.

Thanks. I'm actually trying to go on one stick in Windows for now and seeing if that works. So far, no restarts yet. I'll see what happens in the next 10 hours or so and then make my realization if it's just bad RAM.

Everything is normal there.

Oh, and the bios is seeing everything the way it should.

Hmm, I'll try the RAM idea. May be awhile before I can tell you if it works or not. I'll say if it doesn't restart in 24 hours, then it was the RAM. Thanks for your help.

Yes, my BIOS is updated.

MB Temperature - 24C/75F CPU Temperature - 49C/120F VCORE Voltage - 1.69V +3.3V Voltage - 3.29V +5V Voltage - 4.78V +12V Voltage - 12.86V CPU Fan Speed - 3835 RPM CHASSIS FAN SPEED - 0 RPM POWER FAN SPEED - 0 RPM Q-Fan Control - [Disabled] Fan Speed Ratio - 10/15 Speed UP/DOWN Response Time - 4 sec/8sec

Oh my case came with a powersupply. An ASYS 450Watt powersupply And going into BIOS, my CPU temperature reading is 47C.

I've just recently bought computer parts to build my very first computer. Here are the primary parts I've bought: -ASUS "A7N8X-E Deluxe" nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU -AMD Athlon XP 3200+ "Barton", 400MHz FSB, 512K Cache Processor -XFX nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Video Card, 128MB GDDR3, 128-Bit, Dual DVI, AGP 8X, Model "PVT43AND" -Maxtor Ultra Series Kit 120GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model L01P120 -Kingston 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 (Two sticks) -Sony Internal 16X DVD+/-RW / Double Layer Drive Black, Model DW-D22A-B2 So, upon installing Windows XP Pro SP2 Integrated, everything in the install and before goes smoothly. When coming into Windows for the first time, things seem okay. But there are random restarts all the time happening in Windows. The restarts never seem to happen consistently either. It could happen every few minutes or so, or it may not restart for an hour or so. I've gotten so many random error screens(the blue screens) that I have no clue what is wrong. I've been talking to someone I know that knows more about this in detail, but they're lost as to what could be wrong. Maybe it's some weird compatibility issue. I would like for someone to look at what I have here, and see if there's any issue as to something not working with another device. The errors I get when I come back into Windows state that it could be a Graphics Device Error, or that the CPU has reported a hardware error, or that there's just a hardware error, period. Sometimes the error says there's a RAM issue. I really have no clue what could be going on. My friend has helped me over the internet with what to try to get it to not restart randomly anymore, but things have not seemed to help. I've tried using an old IBM 20GB HDD to install an OS on since it supports FAT32 and whatnot, and yet with that hdd, there are still random restarts. Something is causing the restarts, and with those restarts, it corrupts my Windows XP. Can't seem to find anything that will fix this completely. Thanks for reading.