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Great RAM! It's what I run, exclusively... 
There are a few BIOS settings you can try to see if they improve stability:
On the "Advanced BIOS Features" page:
"CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)" to "Disabled"
"C2/C2E State Support" to "Disabled"
"C4/C4E State Support" to "Disabled"
"CPU Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2)" to "Enabled"
"CPU EIST Function" to "Disabled"
On the "Integrated Peripherals" page:
Your manual shows "Legacy USB storage detect", but later BIOS say "USB Storage Function" - either way, set to "Disabled"
On the "MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.)" page:
"Robust Graphics Booster" to "Auto" (I've always loved the name of this one - just sounds cool to me...)
******** Clock Chip Control ********
>>>>> Standard Clock Control
"PCI Express Frequency (Mhz)" to "100" (not auto...)
"C.I.A.2" to "Disabled"
******** DRAM Performance Control ********
"Performance Enhance" to "Standard"
Save, exit, reboot, and see if the troubles go away!
Good luck!
Bill
There are a few BIOS settings you can try to see if they improve stability:
On the "Advanced BIOS Features" page:
"CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)" to "Disabled"
"C2/C2E State Support" to "Disabled"
"C4/C4E State Support" to "Disabled"
"CPU Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2)" to "Enabled"
"CPU EIST Function" to "Disabled"
On the "Integrated Peripherals" page:
Your manual shows "Legacy USB storage detect", but later BIOS say "USB Storage Function" - either way, set to "Disabled"
On the "MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.)" page:
"Robust Graphics Booster" to "Auto" (I've always loved the name of this one - just sounds cool to me...)
******** Clock Chip Control ********
>>>>> Standard Clock Control
"PCI Express Frequency (Mhz)" to "100" (not auto...)
"C.I.A.2" to "Disabled"
******** DRAM Performance Control ********
"Performance Enhance" to "Standard"
Save, exit, reboot, and see if the troubles go away!
Good luck!
Bill
Thanks for shedding some light on this 
I actually did at the moment have a Western Digital external USB drive 320 gig attached. I actually had it attached to the USB 'hub' on my Dell monitor that is connected to a USB port on the computer. I'll definitely disable the Legacy support in the BIOS.
Thanks! I feel a little better knowing its not a major hardware issue (not to me anyway).
Hmm now I'm thinking it ISN'T usb or board issues. I've noticed when I start any game and it starts rendering anything in 3d it reboots. I'm thinking it is a directx issue because I never had this issue until I downloaded street fighter 4 for PC off of steam and it did some directx update when I first ran it. It did the same thing (directx install/upgrade) when I first booted up Red Faction Guerilla after downloading it from Steam.
I know this probably isn't the right forum but is there anyway to troubleshoot directx? Any game I boot up is fine usually until I load a game (ie render 3d, menu's work fine in most games). Never had this problem until Street Fighter 4, Games for Windows Live, and the directx 'update' that came with them.
I'm running Vista ultimate 32 bit. dxdiag says I have DirectX10 although I seem to remember it saying something about updating DirectX 9 when first running Red Faction.
I'm confused 
Message edited by drpcken on 09-17-2009 at 03:22:08 AM
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Reply to bilbat
Great RAM! It's what I run, exclusively... There are a few BIOS settings you can try to see if they improve stability:
On the "Advanced BIOS Features" page:
"CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)" to "Disabled"
"C2/C2E State Support" to "Disabled"
"C4/C4E State Support" to "Disabled"
"CPU Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2)" to "Enabled"
"CPU EIST Function" to "Disabled"
On the "Integrated Peripherals" page:
Your manual shows "Legacy USB storage detect", but later BIOS say "USB Storage Function" - either way, set to "Disabled"
On the "MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.)" page:
"Robust Graphics Booster" to "Auto" (I've always loved the name of this one - just sounds cool to me...)
******** Clock Chip Control ********
>>>>> Standard Clock Control
"PCI Express Frequency (Mhz)" to "100" (not auto...)
"C.I.A.2" to "Disabled"
******** DRAM Performance Control ********
"Performance Enhance" to "Standard"
Save, exit, reboot, and see if the troubles go away!
Good luck!
Bill
Yea I love that RAM. I use to swear by Crucial until I got my first set of gskill
So you think all that will fix what causes sudden reboots? Not that I don't appreciate the advice! I'll definitely be following that advice but I"m thinking its software related and not hardware.
Windows 7 retail can't get here soon enough 
ok i'm about to reboot and set those settings in the bios. Do you recommend changing any timing on my RAM? I'll report what it says now when I return
Well I did all those settings and it is still rebooting when games start
I wonder if it could be my graphics card. Nvidia 8800 GTX. I recently updated the drivers. I still think it has something to do with the directx updates that have happened when I installed and ran SF4 and Red Faction the first time. NEVER had this problem before SF4 installation.
I think I'm just going to slap Win7 on it and see if it keeps doing it
none 
maybe if i roll back my graphic cards driver installation and see if that works, i've updated within the past week when all this started
I gave up on nVidia years ago - went round and round with an odd problem on a client (industrial) system - running a forty-thousand line Excel macro in background, that kept 'hanging' for no apparent reason (god knows I never make software errors ) - after weeks of troubleshooting and watching breakpoints, I found out it was a known, but undocumented problem in the nVidia video driver... Swore (literally) off them - never used one since. Wasn't too happy when AMD bought ATI, either; have always gotten extremely good and prompt service from them, and , now that they're part of a huge bureaucracy, that's history, too!
Always welcome!
Isn't seven a kick? 
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