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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. |
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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.) |
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"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. |
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