Unstable system

[cazman]

Gentleman,

When in doubt, turn to the message boards. Here goes. I put together a new XP1700 on a Dragon+ MB, DDR2700 memory, 350 watt AMD approved power supply. ATI Radeon video card. I have since taken off all of the peripherals. To start, I get 3 short beeps if I cold start (sometimes 4), 2 beeps if I hit the reset button, and 1 beep if I restart through WIN XP start menu. It crashed with the blue screen 4 times during initial loadong of windows. BTY I have nothing overclocked yet. Once getting XP loaded it ran ok for a couple of minutes and then reset itself. Now I can get anywhere from immediate crash or restart to about 8 minutes of use before it restarts or crashes. I do sometimes get what appear to be memory errors. IE will crash and shut itself down. I have tried 3 video cards one even being a PCI card to rule out AGP. Different HD. The only thing I have left is the memory, power supply or MB. Does anyone know if I may be having an issue with the DDR2700 with this MB? Or does it sound like a power supply issue? I am at a loss here. I am also running the newest BIOS. I am thinking about going down to FRY's to get new stick of DDR2100, power supply and another MB to rule those out now. Any other suggestions would surely be appreciated.

Cazman :(

[KaHNZa]

Its your memory. Try some PC2400 or PC2100 and I bet it'll work fine.

[cazman]

KaHNZa, Thanks. I am gonna go grab a new stick on lunch. I'll let ya know how it goes. I was told that I would not have a problem with the 2700. Is this MB not support it or is it just the stick that I have? My knowledge is lacking in the DDR area.

Cazman

[cazman]

here's the skinny. after talking to soyo, they seemed to think that it may have been a corrupted install. suggested that i try reinstalling windows. also pointed that the problem may be the cpu. tech said that i should not have any problems with the 2700 memory on this board. so, i tried reinstalling win 2000 instead. got the same thing. after it had copied all of the files and rebooted i got a blue screen that read "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL address 8042ca04 base at 804000000 datestamp 384d9617 - ntoskrnl.exe
beginning dump of physical memory. physical memory dump completed. contact your system admin or tech support" soyo also stated that i may want to try and turn of the onboard internal and external cache. if it is stable then it is a bad cpu. any takes on any of this. i hate to go buy another stick of ram if that is not the problem. anyone. please!!!!:burn:

cazman

[LutaWicasa]

Out of curiosity, what brand PC2700 is this? What bios are you using?

[CAMS]

Check the Event Viewer to see if it is showing any problems.

[David]

Check your voltages and try running just the mobo/CPU/RAM/Vcard/PSU

If that fails try all the components in different rigs. Double check your BIOS settings (maybe even run the 2700 as 2100?)

[cazman]

I want to thank everyone here for their valuble insight. It is now confirmed that it was the memory. I put in a stick of 256 meg 2100. Runs stellar. Now I have to determine if the other stick was bad or if my MB doesn't like it. I am leaning toward the bad side with all of my research telling me that I should not have a problem running OCZ 2700 in this thing. I will keep you all posted.

CAZMAN :D

[Tumbler 00]

I just love these venders that pass the buck,to your next piece of hardware.Rather than the "possibility",that it just might be there product acting acting screwy.

[David]

I don't see why the RAM wouldn't work. It should work at 2100 OK, unless it is parity or ECC RAM.