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August 12, 2013 6:18:15 AM

I have 8G Ram AMD 64 x 2 DC P 5000 2.61 Ghz with a ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card I keep getting the blue screen of death thought might be power supply but it is the vid card I think can't find replacement of the same card, what can I replace it with? thanks in advance

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a b U Graphics card
August 12, 2013 6:33:50 AM

What does the BSOD say? It should give you an eror message. Without knowing that, or what you were doing when it happens, it's just a shot in the dark.
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August 12, 2013 6:41:09 AM

memory dump is all it really displays and saying dumping in so many seconds. :) 
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a b U Graphics card
August 12, 2013 6:46:51 AM

It is possible that it is possible it is the graphics card, but most of the time BSOD is related to RAM error. Did the system work before you installed the 3200 Graphics card?

A good idea would be to download a tool called memtest and install it on a flash drive. Boot to the flash drive on your computer and run the program. This will test for problems with the RAM. Give it an hour or so to run, if it has 0 errors then try getting a different graphics card, but if it has errors then one or more of your RAM sticks has gone bad and is the real problem.

Except an hour or so of your time, this way doesn't cost you anything and gives you the best chance of finding the problem without buying several different parts and trying to find the real problem.
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August 12, 2013 6:50:55 AM

It allowed me to run the mem test on it from tools within the system itself, however after it checked the ram it did reboot to BSOD, but it ran the test so I will try your idea from a stick and see how it goes. Thanks I will get back as soon as I have finished. Yesterday it booted up and allowed me to do some work for about 40 minutes and then dumped so maybe it is mem. It is a great system and the cost of replacing I do not want to do.
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a b U Graphics card
August 12, 2013 6:56:36 AM

I don't think you ran the right tool. Memtest doesn't run on any operating system that I have seen, but instead runs by itself without windows.
http://www.memtest86.com/
I highly recommend you download and use this utility off of a flash drive instead since it is very accurate and usually if there are problems you will see it gong crazy with errors in the first 15 minutes. If it does that then shut down and go one stick at a time, and if it doesn't give it an hour.

I would ay you will get it working either way though since you are now going one stick at a time. I'm pretty sure one will probably be bad.
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August 12, 2013 8:16:34 AM

evidently i am doing something wrong, I formatted the disk downloaded set the bios to go to that drive and it will check for about 30 seconds and reboot windows, then I tried it again and it went to windows memory diagnostic tools. I followed the instructions and it wont' boot from it. Is there a reason? I am clueless over here I even went back and downloaded the new version and it won't boot from that even if I select the kingston stick.
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a b U Graphics card
August 12, 2013 8:18:16 AM

That's strange. And you ran the USB installer and selected he USB drive and everything right?
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August 12, 2013 8:22:16 AM

yes I sure did
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August 12, 2013 8:22:48 AM

just going to replace the mem anyway..it probably is it..
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a b U Graphics card
August 12, 2013 8:33:15 AM

Yea just forget it. It probably is just one of them though, try one at a time and see if the system starts working. Once you do that you will confirm is the RAM and you can decide what to do from there.
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August 12, 2013 8:41:46 AM

thanks for all your help I will let you know what happens :) 
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