in the last year or so I haven't been gaming like I used to.
Used to run BF2, COD4, FEAR.. etc
but of late i've been using it mainly for a webbrowser with no problems.
UNTIL.. I purchased L4d2, and COD4 MW2 which are quite system intensive
I will get random looping freezes that require a Hard boot.. occasionally a BSOD that says "page error in a non-paged area" or things like that.
I had a trojan recently and decided that was probably causing my headaches.. so I reformatted Winxp sp3.
To no avail.. same problems.. blah.
I have not changed any settings in bios and the computer has been stable for years.
During either memtest86+ or the other memtest they both just hang about 8 mins into the test. Always @ test #5 block moves.
I've tried different sticks of ram, different Dimms as well.
tried it with EIST off, and C1E off.. nothing different.
I cleaned the entire set of components thoroughly and checked to see if they were getting hot.. nope. PSU, northbridge, IC's, vid card, ram and cpu barely warm.
HELP I don't really have the money or the desire to start throwing parts at it.. otherwise i'd just get a new mobo, ram and cpu.. but I don't want it to come to that.
specs:
Abit AW9d-Max bios 1.7
Intel E6600 overclocked to 3.4ghz (365 fsb)
Mushkin 996696 PC9200 5-5-5-15 (2x1gb)
EVGA Nvidia 8800GTS 640mb
Pc Power & cooling 650w silencer
dual 74gig raptor's in Raid-0
1 terabyte seagate
320 gig seagate
winxp sp3
Custom watercooling.
Used to run BF2, COD4, FEAR.. etc
but of late i've been using it mainly for a webbrowser with no problems.
UNTIL.. I purchased L4d2, and COD4 MW2 which are quite system intensive
I will get random looping freezes that require a Hard boot.. occasionally a BSOD that says "page error in a non-paged area" or things like that.
I had a trojan recently and decided that was probably causing my headaches.. so I reformatted Winxp sp3.
To no avail.. same problems.. blah.
I have not changed any settings in bios and the computer has been stable for years.
During either memtest86+ or the other memtest they both just hang about 8 mins into the test. Always @ test #5 block moves.
I've tried different sticks of ram, different Dimms as well.
tried it with EIST off, and C1E off.. nothing different.
I cleaned the entire set of components thoroughly and checked to see if they were getting hot.. nope. PSU, northbridge, IC's, vid card, ram and cpu barely warm.
HELP I don't really have the money or the desire to start throwing parts at it.. otherwise i'd just get a new mobo, ram and cpu.. but I don't want it to come to that.
specs:
Abit AW9d-Max bios 1.7
Intel E6600 overclocked to 3.4ghz (365 fsb)
Mushkin 996696 PC9200 5-5-5-15 (2x1gb)
EVGA Nvidia 8800GTS 640mb
Pc Power & cooling 650w silencer
dual 74gig raptor's in Raid-0
1 terabyte seagate
320 gig seagate
winxp sp3
Custom watercooling.