Greetings,
The problems began when I built this system a few weeks back. I installed XP Pro SP2, fully updated it, and installed all the proper drivers and such. Gradually as I began using my computer for work, I would get stop errors ranging from every few hours to every few days.
These errors included the following:
0x0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0x00000050: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x0000007F: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP
0x0000008E: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
And I’m sure others. Other symptoms included Firefox crashing CONSTANTLY (including in the middle of the FIRST time I was typing this post,) and other Windows programs crashing less frequently.
I did all the usual crap, updated the drivers, reinstalled devices, removed unnecessary ones. The only slot I have a card in, is the PCI-E 16x slot, and it’s my video card. I can’t very well remove it, so I made sure the drivers were correct and updated, and even tried rolled-back drivers. No success.
Eventually (today) I ran memcheck86 and Microsoft’s windiag memory checking programs, both booted from a CD image. They both indicated massive RAM error rates, to differing degrees; memcheck86 reported THOUSANDS of errors, in both modules, while windiag reported 12 and 7 errors in modules 1 and 2 (in one “extended test suite” pass). Since the errors are in BOTH modules (I only have 2) I’m inclined to believe it’s a motherboard issue.
My question is this: Have I reached the wrong conclusion? Are there other tests I could perform? Is there anything else that could explain these symptoms and the INCREDIBLE coincidence of both ram modules having catastrophic errors? Should I return the motherboard, or try switching the 2 modules into the other pair of memory banks?
Thanks!
P.S. My system is as follows:
ABIT KN8 Ultra Motherboard
OCZ Premier 1GB (2 x 512) Dual-Channel DDR 3200 RAM
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ dualcore 2GHz
Sapphire Radeon X550 256mb PCI-E
250gb SATAII, 80gb IDE, 60gb IDE
2 optical drives
1 floppy drive
450w Antec power supply, Sonata II case
The problems began when I built this system a few weeks back. I installed XP Pro SP2, fully updated it, and installed all the proper drivers and such. Gradually as I began using my computer for work, I would get stop errors ranging from every few hours to every few days.
These errors included the following:
0x0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0x00000050: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x0000007F: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP
0x0000008E: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
And I’m sure others. Other symptoms included Firefox crashing CONSTANTLY (including in the middle of the FIRST time I was typing this post,) and other Windows programs crashing less frequently.
I did all the usual crap, updated the drivers, reinstalled devices, removed unnecessary ones. The only slot I have a card in, is the PCI-E 16x slot, and it’s my video card. I can’t very well remove it, so I made sure the drivers were correct and updated, and even tried rolled-back drivers. No success.
Eventually (today) I ran memcheck86 and Microsoft’s windiag memory checking programs, both booted from a CD image. They both indicated massive RAM error rates, to differing degrees; memcheck86 reported THOUSANDS of errors, in both modules, while windiag reported 12 and 7 errors in modules 1 and 2 (in one “extended test suite” pass). Since the errors are in BOTH modules (I only have 2) I’m inclined to believe it’s a motherboard issue.
My question is this: Have I reached the wrong conclusion? Are there other tests I could perform? Is there anything else that could explain these symptoms and the INCREDIBLE coincidence of both ram modules having catastrophic errors? Should I return the motherboard, or try switching the 2 modules into the other pair of memory banks?
Thanks!
P.S. My system is as follows:
ABIT KN8 Ultra Motherboard
OCZ Premier 1GB (2 x 512) Dual-Channel DDR 3200 RAM
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ dualcore 2GHz
Sapphire Radeon X550 256mb PCI-E
250gb SATAII, 80gb IDE, 60gb IDE
2 optical drives
1 floppy drive
450w Antec power supply, Sonata II case