Maleko Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 Ok, heres the situation:A while back I had BSOD's with memory errors, so i replaced my memory and all was fine....although my old memory passed memtest on different systems as well as my own.So it was working.Then my windows installation was goin funny, and i wanted a format and to upgrade to x2 80GB drives in RAID0Setup my RAID0Install winxp with nLITE CD....BSOD's....thoguht it was my CD, so tried original....same errorsErrors are mixed memory errors and read errors.So my theory is my board has died and gone to heaven...any other ideas?SPECS:ASUS A7N8X-DELUXEATHLON XP Barton 3200XP2Gigs Ballistix memoryx2 WD 80GB RAID066GTAudigy SoundNow i did run memtest, and did get a 4 errors at 1613.1MB - But this could be down o the board and my tight memory timings etc, which have ALWAYS been there. It could also be i guess my CPU...but i have no way of testing them elsewhere.
Maleko Posted March 24, 2006 Author Posted March 24, 2006 IRQL not less than or equal to ones, pfn list corrupt.....errors in ntfs.sys and tcpip.syssorry cant give more detail
nmX.Memnoch Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 Several things to try...1. Try each RAM stick individually. If they all work in only one slot, then try them in another slot, but only one stick at a time.2. If available, try another CPU.3. If available, try another hard drive.4. If availalbe, try another power supply.5. Pull everything from the system except for the CPU, one stick of RAM and the video card. Disable any onboard devices that your BIOS will let you (onboard sound, onboard NIC, COM ports, LPT ports, etc, etc). Also detach all power and data cables from any drives you don't need to run Windows Setup (only one hard drive and one optical drive should be attached/powered up).6. Try changing the PATA/SATA cables.If you get any BSODs during testing be sure to document them. I had a similar problem a while back only I was getting a specific BSOD error. I changed everything from RAM, data cables, power supply, and even the motherboard. It turned out to be the L2 cache in my processor...google Sudden Northwood Death Syndrome or SNDS (yep, I was overvolting it just above the threshold).
Maleko Posted March 24, 2006 Author Posted March 24, 2006 Well, i would try that, some of it i cant and the setup is EXACTLY the same from about 5 re-installs of XP, aprt from mem upgrade, and new hard drive, and ive tried 3 of them anyway.
nmX.Memnoch Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 I doubt it's the memory since you said you were having the problem prior to the memory upgrade. Was the hard drive replacement prior to the memory upgrade?
Maleko Posted March 24, 2006 Author Posted March 24, 2006 hard drive has been there for ages, and same error occrs on all 3 drives individually....im lookin at new equipment, go amd 64....cost me a bomb, new board, cpu, graphics and PSU!
ripken204 Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 well i wouldl like you to get an amd64 system but... u said that u have tight memory timings? set everything in the bios to stock speeds, including the cpu.
nmX.Memnoch Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 Doh...I stopped reading after the system specs so I completely missed that.Definitely put everything back at default speeds and try it again. If the timings are too tight the memory data can become corrupted. This will cause errors such as what you're seeing.
DL. Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 I had the same BSOD:s as you are having a while back, and lots of them (a few times a day).The solution in my case was replacing the SB Audigy 2 I had, I haven't had any BSOD:s since then.Are you using any specific programs when the BSOD:s happen?Are you using the correct and latest versions of all drivers, firmwares and programs?
puntoMX Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 I agree with the guys here (but who am I );The error most of the times occur when a driver can’t be executed or faulty hardware detection.Yeah, set everything back to original speeds first and post your finding here please .
Maleko Posted March 25, 2006 Author Posted March 25, 2006 I tried resetting the bios, putting everything back to default speeds, stock everything...yet same problems still occur.the sound card i got is the first audigy, yet i cant see it beign that as the drivers for that are insatlled after windows is installed.also, the board has been iffy for a while, so i might just go for i and go amd64, which i shoudl do really now, with a pci-e card, lookin at the san-diago chip....bye bye savings...lol
ripken204 Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 well if u really are going to get a new machine, then let us help u out. how much money u looking at and what parts do u need?
nmX.Memnoch Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 the sound card i got is the first audigy, yet i cant see it beign that as the drivers for that are insatlled after windows is installed.The hardware itself can cause problems even if the drivers aren't installed.Did you try option 5? Remove everything except the necessary items to get it running (hard drive, optical drive, CPU, one stick of RAM, PSU and vid card). If it works then you can start adding stuff back to see where the problem is. If it doesn't work, then it's one of the items still left in the system (likely the CPU or motherboard).
Maleko Posted March 26, 2006 Author Posted March 26, 2006 well, i deceided to just go for it....ASUS A8N SLI PremiumAMD64 3700 San DiegonVIDIA 7600GT 256MBI thought...why not...lolAll working sweet
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