New System Problems
 

I recently assembled a new PC with the following specs

-P4 3.4 Ghz 800 Mhz Processor
-Intel D865 PERL Motherboard
-512 Mb of PC 3200 (4)
-Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro PCI Sound Card
-GeForce FX5950 Ultra 256 MB AGP video Card
-120Gb Serial ATA Hard Drive
-450 Watt power supply

The machine will not run with the full 2 gig of memory installed. PC
boots, Windows loads and then immediately reboots. If I only run with
2 of the DIMMS installed the PC will run fine, except when I run
graphics intensive games. If I load Far Cry or Painkiller, or just
about any other graphics heavy game, it will run for about 5 to 10 min
then just drop me back to the desktop. The PC doesn't lock or hang,
the game just shuts off. Im at a total loss as to the reason. I have
run the freeware Microsoft memory test against all of the DIMMS but
continually get differing results. Do you think this is a bad board
or did I just get 4 bad DIMMS?? Thanks is advance for the help.

Chris Aubrey wrote:
I recently assembled a new PC with the following specs

-P4 3.4 Ghz 800 Mhz Processor
-Intel D865 PERL Motherboard
-512 Mb of PC 3200 (4)
-Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro PCI Sound Card
-GeForce FX5950 Ultra 256 MB AGP video Card
-120Gb Serial ATA Hard Drive
-450 Watt power supply

The machine will not run with the full 2 gig of memory installed. PC
boots, Windows loads and then immediately reboots. If I only run with
2 of the DIMMS installed the PC will run fine, except when I run
graphics intensive games. If I load Far Cry or Painkiller, or just
about any other graphics heavy game, it will run for about 5 to 10 min
then just drop me back to the desktop. The PC doesn't lock or hang,
the game just shuts off. Im at a total loss as to the reason. I have
run the freeware Microsoft memory test against all of the DIMMS but
continually get differing results. Do you think this is a bad board
or did I just get 4 bad DIMMS?? Thanks is advance for the help.

This sounds like a windows problem but you have managed to tell us
everything about your computer except the details about what windows you
have set up.

Alex
--
My words are my own. They represent no other; they belong to no other.
Don't read anything into them or you may be required to compensate me
for violation of copyright. (I do not speak for my employer.)

"Chris Aubrey" wrote in message
om...
I recently assembled a new PC with the following specs

-P4 3.4 Ghz 800 Mhz Processor
-Intel D865 PERL Motherboard
-512 Mb of PC 3200 (4)
-Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro PCI Sound Card
-GeForce FX5950 Ultra 256 MB AGP video Card
-120Gb Serial ATA Hard Drive
-450 Watt power supply

The machine will not run with the full 2 gig of memory installed. PC
boots, Windows loads and then immediately reboots. If I only run with
2 of the DIMMS installed the PC will run fine, except when I run
graphics intensive games. If I load Far Cry or Painkiller, or just
about any other graphics heavy game, it will run for about 5 to 10 min
then just drop me back to the desktop. The PC doesn't lock or hang,
the game just shuts off. Im at a total loss as to the reason. I have
run the freeware Microsoft memory test against all of the DIMMS but
continually get differing results. Do you think this is a bad board
or did I just get 4 bad DIMMS?? Thanks is advance for the help.

Are the 4 DIMMs absolutely identical? Check out www.memtest86.com
for a free, thorough, non-OS specific memory tester.

See
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
for debugging options you can add to the boot.ini file to determine where in the
boot process it fails.