I recently began receiving random reboots (usually linked to putting load on the system and have tried various reinstalls/driver configurations to no avail.
What i'd like to know is if this kind of error may indicate a hardware issue in the machine.
My machine spec is: 3200+ athlon xp. 512mb ballistix. abit-an7. geforce 6800 GT. audigy 2.
I'll lead you through whats been happening.
1) Began getting random reboots under load, thinking it may be a power issue i replaced the PSU. The machine seemed stable and then boom - it began again.
2) I had a poke around, only to discover the northbridge fan on my motherboard wasnt working (and by the looks of how clean it was probably never had worked). The board is 8 months old (yes i am kicking myself for not seeing this earlier).
3) Stuck a cooler on the northbridge, upon rebuilding the machine and powering it on both my pci cards (soundcard and LAN card) were both reporting that they didnt have enough resources to initialise. I eventually fixed this by switching the cards around in the slots.
4) And here i am, getting BSOD with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL errors (error 1003). The full error is: Error code 1000000a, parameter1 00000004, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 804e6d3f.
I have tested the memory, i found one stick was faulty and thats been RMA'd hence i only have the 512 at the moment. Ive ran prime95 for large amounts of time (i did get 1 error with this). Im thinking i have a hardware problem as ive not had this in the past and ive reinstalled xp 3 times in the last week, using different drivers as well. I've resolved all problems i was getting with a daemon tools and an nvidia chipset driver driver conflict. Im pulling my hair out here. I also know its not the soundcard as that was removed and the system was still unstable.
Any help would be appreciated, sorry for the long post.
What i'd like to know is if this kind of error may indicate a hardware issue in the machine.
My machine spec is: 3200+ athlon xp. 512mb ballistix. abit-an7. geforce 6800 GT. audigy 2.
I'll lead you through whats been happening.
1) Began getting random reboots under load, thinking it may be a power issue i replaced the PSU. The machine seemed stable and then boom - it began again.
2) I had a poke around, only to discover the northbridge fan on my motherboard wasnt working (and by the looks of how clean it was probably never had worked). The board is 8 months old (yes i am kicking myself for not seeing this earlier).
3) Stuck a cooler on the northbridge, upon rebuilding the machine and powering it on both my pci cards (soundcard and LAN card) were both reporting that they didnt have enough resources to initialise. I eventually fixed this by switching the cards around in the slots.
4) And here i am, getting BSOD with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL errors (error 1003). The full error is: Error code 1000000a, parameter1 00000004, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 804e6d3f.
I have tested the memory, i found one stick was faulty and thats been RMA'd hence i only have the 512 at the moment. Ive ran prime95 for large amounts of time (i did get 1 error with this). Im thinking i have a hardware problem as ive not had this in the past and ive reinstalled xp 3 times in the last week, using different drivers as well. I've resolved all problems i was getting with a daemon tools and an nvidia chipset driver driver conflict. Im pulling my hair out here. I also know its not the soundcard as that was removed and the system was still unstable.
Any help would be appreciated, sorry for the long post.
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