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Constant crashes with P5N-E SLI

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Manbane

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Feb 16, 2009
Im having serious issues with instability...
I have the following gear:

Asus GeForce 9600GT 512MB
Asus - Socket 775 - ATX nForce 650i (P5N-E SLI)
Corsair XMS2 4096MB DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz (5-5-5-18) (2x2048MB) (TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5GHz / 1333MHz / 6MB - Socket 775
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
OCZ StealthXStream PowerSupply (PSU) 600W - Silent 120mm
2x Samsung 500GB SATA II NCQ (7200RPM / 16MB Cache / SATA II)

Symptoms:
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) more regulary (before it was on first start-up of the day).
Graphical failures as in pixles all over the screen. Totall Freezes which is similar to a BSOD but I have to hardboot manually without any error messages.

I did a voltage-check from Sandra benchmark:
CPU DC Line: 1.34V
Aux DC Linw 3.30V
+5V DC Line 4.87V
+12V DC Line 12.04V
-12V DC Line -16.80V
-5V DC Line -8.53V
Standby DC Line: 4.95V
Battery DC Line: 3.14V

These are the recorded error-messages:
0x0000003B system_service_exception
0x00000050 page_fault_in_nonpage_area
0x0000000A IRQ_not_equal_or_less
0x0000007E (no message here)

Tried solutions:
* Removed all dust, vacuumed the case and checked all slots for dust and rechecked the cables that they are firmely fixed.
* Changed graphic-card to a Geforce 8800GTX and it was stable for a full day. Then it was back to same "crashes". So I changed back to 9600GT.
* Changed Voltage from "auto" to:
NB: 1,4V
Memory Timings: 4-4-4-15 @ 2clocks
Mem Volt: 2,1V
* Changed memory to "black slots" only
* Deep-formatted HDD and reinstalled VISTA 64bit
* Plugged out the battery, waited 15 minutes and plugged it back in.
* Memory goes without errormessages on check from Vista-CD
* HDD goes without errormessages on HDD-check from Vista-CD

None of the changes above made my system any more stable.

Anyone have further suggestions?
 
Did you try running your pc all stock settings, did you test your memory, do you have a substitute PSU to try:burn:
 
Yes I tried it all. But when I removed a memory and tried each of them in port A1 it turned out I had a corrupted memory AND a corrupted slot on the motherboard. I switched memorystick and avoid the slot.
Everything works as intended now.
 
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