Asus K8V ISSUES? please help

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has anyone had similar issues, or know how to get around this. im getting lots of blue screen errors on two K8V bases systems

- System 1 - brand new install -

Athlon 64 3200+
Asus K8V SE Deluxe
2x512Mb 400 DDRRAM - Samsung ECC - with ECC Off.
SATA(only) 160Gb WD
powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro

- System 2 - Upgrade -

Athlon 64 3200+
Asus K8V SE Deluxe
2x512Mb 400 DDRRAM - Samsung ECC - with ECC Off.
PATA(only) 160Gb WD
Asus Radeon 9600 SE

1. crashes when trying to install anything.
2. crashes when CPU use becomes to high, unpredictable

while they both use the same RAM both sets of ram come from differant batchs... about one month apart.

all Bios and drivers are updated

we tryed with only 1 stick of ram and 2

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ASUS P4S8X-P4 2.4B - 2x512M DDR333 - ATI 9500Pro - WD80G HD(8M) - SAMSUNG SV0844D 8G HD - LG 16X DVD - Yamaha F1 CDRW

 

[pat]

I would check for ram issue first. Try to relax the timing to see if that help. Maybe power supply issues, 350W at minimum for those system...400+W is better. If the system 2 is an upgrade, did you fresh install the OS?



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[cdpage]

the PSU is 400

we try relaxing the ram to
3-4-4-8

i think thats as low as it goes.

apperently in the second machine the RAM gets REALY REALY hot.

as for the OS we received the 1st machine with XP installed.

the second machine no its not a fresh install

We will likely be swoping RAM to see if it is Samsungs RAM.

not sure if that will help.

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ASUS P4S8X-P4 2.4B - 2x512M DDR333 - ATI 9500Pro - WD80G HD(8M) - SAMSUNG SV0844D 8G HD - LG 16X DVD - Yamaha F1 CDRW

 

[Crashman]

Here are the things I'd consider in order of most likely causes:
1.) Voltage issues, not all power supplies are stable
2.) RAM issues, not all RAM is grade A
3.) RAM timing issues with that chipset that many members deny exist, even when THG and Anandtech have said otherwise.

For #1 I suggest you keep track of line voltage levels, but I'm not sure if MBM5 has been updated for that board yet

For #3 you can try dropping your RAM timings.

For #2 you can try running Memtest86 with those slow ram timings.

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