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04-08-2008 at 05:45:58 PM

Heyall.

I recently upgraded my system with a Q9450, a new HDD, 8 GB of Corsaior 6400G5 and a Gigabyte DS3 MoBo. The gfx card is taken from my old system - an Asus 8600 GTS. PSU is also a carryover at 530W.

The system, running Vista 64, was extremely unstable. I'd get BSoD's (usually PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA), all sorts of applications would crash (including IE, Sidebar and Superfetch) and my cheap little webcam outputted garbled video.

I tried Memtest without finding errors. Even flashing the BIOS and removing all memory sticks except the one at DIMM3 did nothing to improve things.

HOWEVER - when I moved the one memory stick to DIMM1, things improved. As far as I can tell, the system is now completely stable - even my webcam works.

So, I'm guessing my motherboard is bad. Before I return it, however, I was wondering if there are any additional measures I can take to make sure that it actually is the mobo and not something else. Any ideas or second opinions as to the cause of the problems?

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