Hi all,
Just built this system:
System:
ASUS P5WD2 Premium 955X
P4 630 retail installed with retail fan
1 GB (2x512) Geil DDR2 Ultra series Dual Channel
Sapphire X800 Pro 256 GDDR3 PCI-e x16
WD 160 GB SATAII (x2) not in RAID
Plextor SATA DVD Burner model PX-712SA
Antec Truepower 480W power supply
Aspire X-Dreamer case
Windows XP home ed. SP2
This is more or less what’s been going on, and I’m writing it from memory:
Everything went together just fine. Posted first time, no problem with windows installation. Put in the drivers for the MB rebooted, added drivers for Video, added Norton AV and FW, and finally installed Diablo II with expansion and latest patch. The system was a dream, no problems at all. Loaded DVD writing software and Firefox and it was still working fine.
Few days later I start having problems. First I get kicked out of Firefox twice in one night while accessing CBSSportsline.com. The following day turn on the computer and it gives me a memory error on boot. I reboot and it comes up just fine. Go to load Diablo II and it won’t open, starts to load, beeps, then goes back to windows. I figured something was corrupted in an installation so I restore windows to a save point 10 days ago. On reboot after restore get dll error (forget which). I rebooted a few more times and each time got a different error sometimes with windows system files, sometimes with Norton or the realtek drivers, or even the BSOD.
Note: got the same message that Cowman got on the BSOD
DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL
STOP 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
BEGINING DUMP OF PHYSICAL MEMORY
I hadn’t even formatted the second drive yet, so I unplugged the original drive and hooked up the second drive by itself and started over. This installation seemed to go OK, until I got to loading the ATI drivers. I had no problems during the first install, but on the second it told me a cab file was corrupt. I uninstalled the drivers and tried again, and this time it went through. I tried downloading the drivers from ATI and when I went to load them they were corrupt and wouldn’t even start the install. I downloaded Memtest86+ and let it cycle through 4 times with no problems. I also downloaded a CPU testing program (forget which), and let the CPU hum through multiple cycles for 12 hours. No problems detected. The following day turned on the computer and it gave me a windows system error on boot, but after reboot appeared fine. I installed the ASUS probe and watched the temp and voltages for a few days while playing Diablo and working on the desktop. The online thing of note was that the temp alarm on the CPU was set at 60 and after playing Diablo for 15 minutes it would trip. I set the alarm to 63 and played for several hours without problems or alarms. It would idle at 47 and hover at 50-53 when working on the desktop. The only thing I noticed on the voltage was an occassional swing in the 12 volt from 12.09 to 12.04 or 12.14. Anyway it worked again for a week or so and then I started having the random errors occur and the reboot loop. I’ve tried resetting the CMOS manually and that gets me back from the reboot loop, but the random errors are still there. Restoring to an earlier restore point usually helps the big problems.
Last night I noticed that ASUS had just released a new version of the Realtek drivers so I downloaded them but when I tried to unzip them they were corrupt, tried again same thing, so switched to IE and tried downloading them with a different browser, still corrupt. I even switched from the Marvel to the Intel LAN port, but that didn’t work either. Used my old computer to download them and they unzipped just fine, so I burned them to a disk and tried to load them from the burned CD. The installation kicked me out halfway through and told me some file was corrupt. Tried again, but got a different corrupt file on kickout. Reburned the CD and tried again with same result.
I decided it was time to reinstall windows, one last time before throwing in the towel, but after it copied the files and rebooted, Windows setup hung and told me a file windowsNT$... was corrupt. Went back into safe mode and tried again, this time the files copied and it rebooted and the setup went 5 seconds longer and told me perc.sys or some such file was corrupt.
Anyone out there have any idea whether this problem is a hardware or software issue and if it’s hardware which component? I get the idea that data is just being randomly lost and that is leading to slow windows corruption, but the Memory which would be my first suspect checks out just fine.
Just built this system:
System:
ASUS P5WD2 Premium 955X
P4 630 retail installed with retail fan
1 GB (2x512) Geil DDR2 Ultra series Dual Channel
Sapphire X800 Pro 256 GDDR3 PCI-e x16
WD 160 GB SATAII (x2) not in RAID
Plextor SATA DVD Burner model PX-712SA
Antec Truepower 480W power supply
Aspire X-Dreamer case
Windows XP home ed. SP2
This is more or less what’s been going on, and I’m writing it from memory:
Everything went together just fine. Posted first time, no problem with windows installation. Put in the drivers for the MB rebooted, added drivers for Video, added Norton AV and FW, and finally installed Diablo II with expansion and latest patch. The system was a dream, no problems at all. Loaded DVD writing software and Firefox and it was still working fine.
Few days later I start having problems. First I get kicked out of Firefox twice in one night while accessing CBSSportsline.com. The following day turn on the computer and it gives me a memory error on boot. I reboot and it comes up just fine. Go to load Diablo II and it won’t open, starts to load, beeps, then goes back to windows. I figured something was corrupted in an installation so I restore windows to a save point 10 days ago. On reboot after restore get dll error (forget which). I rebooted a few more times and each time got a different error sometimes with windows system files, sometimes with Norton or the realtek drivers, or even the BSOD.
Note: got the same message that Cowman got on the BSOD
DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL
STOP 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
BEGINING DUMP OF PHYSICAL MEMORY
I hadn’t even formatted the second drive yet, so I unplugged the original drive and hooked up the second drive by itself and started over. This installation seemed to go OK, until I got to loading the ATI drivers. I had no problems during the first install, but on the second it told me a cab file was corrupt. I uninstalled the drivers and tried again, and this time it went through. I tried downloading the drivers from ATI and when I went to load them they were corrupt and wouldn’t even start the install. I downloaded Memtest86+ and let it cycle through 4 times with no problems. I also downloaded a CPU testing program (forget which), and let the CPU hum through multiple cycles for 12 hours. No problems detected. The following day turned on the computer and it gave me a windows system error on boot, but after reboot appeared fine. I installed the ASUS probe and watched the temp and voltages for a few days while playing Diablo and working on the desktop. The online thing of note was that the temp alarm on the CPU was set at 60 and after playing Diablo for 15 minutes it would trip. I set the alarm to 63 and played for several hours without problems or alarms. It would idle at 47 and hover at 50-53 when working on the desktop. The only thing I noticed on the voltage was an occassional swing in the 12 volt from 12.09 to 12.04 or 12.14. Anyway it worked again for a week or so and then I started having the random errors occur and the reboot loop. I’ve tried resetting the CMOS manually and that gets me back from the reboot loop, but the random errors are still there. Restoring to an earlier restore point usually helps the big problems.
Last night I noticed that ASUS had just released a new version of the Realtek drivers so I downloaded them but when I tried to unzip them they were corrupt, tried again same thing, so switched to IE and tried downloading them with a different browser, still corrupt. I even switched from the Marvel to the Intel LAN port, but that didn’t work either. Used my old computer to download them and they unzipped just fine, so I burned them to a disk and tried to load them from the burned CD. The installation kicked me out halfway through and told me some file was corrupt. Tried again, but got a different corrupt file on kickout. Reburned the CD and tried again with same result.
I decided it was time to reinstall windows, one last time before throwing in the towel, but after it copied the files and rebooted, Windows setup hung and told me a file windowsNT$... was corrupt. Went back into safe mode and tried again, this time the files copied and it rebooted and the setup went 5 seconds longer and told me perc.sys or some such file was corrupt.
Anyone out there have any idea whether this problem is a hardware or software issue and if it’s hardware which component? I get the idea that data is just being randomly lost and that is leading to slow windows corruption, but the Memory which would be my first suspect checks out just fine.
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