new rig, rebootin during game.

[G-Man]

Just finished puttin new rig togather. everything seemed ok. amd 3700+ @ 2216/29c/1.36v// FSB@805//mem 2-3-3-6@2.7v//x1800xt 689/797@66c
Everything good till tried a coup games. SOF after 5 min kicked out , back to destop. tried Farcry, after 4 min, crashed all the way to complete system re-boot.
Also noticed i have a safe to remove hardware icon up. when clicked says:safley remove WDC WD1600-00MBHO-Drive (c WTF?? thats my hard drive. Any advice? on where to start first??

 

[joefriday]

Did you hit F6 and install the ide and raid drivers for your motherboard during the install? Also check the device manager for any other issues on drivers.

 

[G-Man]

yeah, opticals installed one primary one second. hdd is on sata. only have one so is automatic. will check device manager though, havnt looked bit once since initial setup.

game crashin cause 1 bad stick of ddrm. gonna have to rma

 

[ak47is1337]

Definately memory. I remember when I was pushing my redline to the "redline" I would get random restarts on BF Vietnam...I thought hm, must be my video card overheating and thus I got a new video card cooler...
That didn't help. When I reset all BIOS defaults, it was fine. Problem turned out to be memory CAS latency was too low at 1.5 and fsb was too high too. Certainly was worth a try though :O
BTW what kind of ram did you have to RMA?

 

[PX7800GT]

That Safe Remove Icon For Your Hard Means That Your HDD Is Working on S-ATA Interface :twisted:
About Restarting ; I Recommand To Disable All The OverClocking :twisted:

 

[G-Man]

I have the corsair xms unbuffered (2x512) 3200c2pt supposed to be 2-3-3-6 1T, bios said 3-3-3-8 2T. I changed in bios to spec, and bumped from 2.6(spec) up to 2.7v. I mean, supposed to be good stable mem. Reduced back to 2.6v but left timings the same. The one stick has no probs, so deduced by swapping back in forth that had 1 bad stick.. Got this xms cause suppose to be problem free. Heard that redline is good stuff and cant get anymore.

 

[G-Man]

That Safe Remove Icon For Your Hard Means That Your HDD Is Working on S-ATA Interface :

I figured better than ide, since board offered it. I dont understand why causes icon to come up or recognized like a usb port ?? First system build :roll:

 

[traken]

It comes up with the "Safely Remove" icon because SATA harddrives are hot-swappable. This means that you can uninstall and install SATA drives while the computer is still on. So in a way, they are like a USB drive.