Hi all,
I just put together a new computer, and am having quite a few problems with - data corruption? - something.
Installing Windows 7 x64 was mostly a matter of luck, as I kept getting the corrupt file error 0x80070570. It kept failing at different points of the install process, so I kept trying, and finally managed to get it to complete - with quite a few misgivings.
Installing drivers and some other stuff mostly went fine, except for Bioware's Dragon Age, which had similar problems as windows - data errors at random places in the install - until I got lucky after 20 or so tries.
While Windows mostly runs stable (except for a corruption of Avast Antivirus that forced me to un- and reinstall it), more intense applications (e.g. Dragon Age) tend to crash fairly frequently.
Obviously I considered bad RAM, so I let Memtest86+ run today. In 19 passes running for almost 11 hours I got exactly 1 error in one of the passes...
Considering how poorly the system behaves otherwise (e.g. display driver periodically crashing, even when on desktop) I somehow can't believe that something as rare as once in 11 hours is causing all that trouble.
A HDD tests off the UBCD ran without a hitch, of the CPU tests only the Mersenne Prime Test (v24.14) fails (within 10-15 seconds) and tells me about it, but that may be a faulty test? Memtest86+ failed at 3189.6MB if that's any help, but I haven't been able to repeat it even when testing just that range of memory.
Any help as to what I can do to resolve this would be greatly appreciated! Or can it be the RAM even at those odds?
Thanks!
Zen
p.s. No overclocking, though I had to manually specify the memory settings (defaulted to 1066MHZ 7-7-7-16 @1.5V rather than 1333MHZ 7-7-7-20 @1.65V)
System Info:
Intel Core i5 750
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4 Motherboard
OCZ PC3-10666 Platinum Low Voltage RAM - 2x2GB
Gigabyte GeForce GTS250 1024 MB
BeQuiet! Pure Power 530W
Seagate 500GB 7200 Hard Drive
LG GH22NS50 DVD Writer
I just put together a new computer, and am having quite a few problems with - data corruption? - something.
Installing Windows 7 x64 was mostly a matter of luck, as I kept getting the corrupt file error 0x80070570. It kept failing at different points of the install process, so I kept trying, and finally managed to get it to complete - with quite a few misgivings.
Installing drivers and some other stuff mostly went fine, except for Bioware's Dragon Age, which had similar problems as windows - data errors at random places in the install - until I got lucky after 20 or so tries.
While Windows mostly runs stable (except for a corruption of Avast Antivirus that forced me to un- and reinstall it), more intense applications (e.g. Dragon Age) tend to crash fairly frequently.
Obviously I considered bad RAM, so I let Memtest86+ run today. In 19 passes running for almost 11 hours I got exactly 1 error in one of the passes...
Considering how poorly the system behaves otherwise (e.g. display driver periodically crashing, even when on desktop) I somehow can't believe that something as rare as once in 11 hours is causing all that trouble.
A HDD tests off the UBCD ran without a hitch, of the CPU tests only the Mersenne Prime Test (v24.14) fails (within 10-15 seconds) and tells me about it, but that may be a faulty test? Memtest86+ failed at 3189.6MB if that's any help, but I haven't been able to repeat it even when testing just that range of memory.
Any help as to what I can do to resolve this would be greatly appreciated! Or can it be the RAM even at those odds?
Thanks!
Zen
p.s. No overclocking, though I had to manually specify the memory settings (defaulted to 1066MHZ 7-7-7-16 @1.5V rather than 1333MHZ 7-7-7-20 @1.65V)
System Info:
Intel Core i5 750
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4 Motherboard
OCZ PC3-10666 Platinum Low Voltage RAM - 2x2GB
Gigabyte GeForce GTS250 1024 MB
BeQuiet! Pure Power 530W
Seagate 500GB 7200 Hard Drive
LG GH22NS50 DVD Writer