ok, here's my setup:
Asus Striker Extreme
E8400
Dual BFG 8800GTX OC'd editions
2x Corsair XMS2 2gb DDR2 6400
1000W enermax galaxy
Win 7 ultimate 64bit.
so, previously I was running an E6600 and things were fine, picked up an E8400 and put it in, and started having the blue screen where it'd only say "Hardware Failure - please contact etc etc for support, system halted". It happened a few times, at random intervals, and sometimes just sitting at idle.
I updated the BIOS with what asus has on their site, and seemed to have worked a bit better. Ran Prime95, it did its full stress tests, went on for a few hours, then I surfed the net a bit, and left the tower on overnight. Overnight it went into the blue screen.
So, I haven't changed any of the BIOS settings yet, since its all on auto right now after the update. I also updated my video card drivers from nvidia, but not the chpiset drivers (should i go with the asus driver? or the nvidia driver, which seems more up to date?)
Is there anything I else should be doing? Someone suggested to manually set the voltage for the CPU, and I'll probably manually time my RAM in the BIOS. Should I try re-installing windows? or is it the CPU that is faulty (even though it made it through the prime95 tests?) ?
Asus Striker Extreme
E8400
Dual BFG 8800GTX OC'd editions
2x Corsair XMS2 2gb DDR2 6400
1000W enermax galaxy
Win 7 ultimate 64bit.
so, previously I was running an E6600 and things were fine, picked up an E8400 and put it in, and started having the blue screen where it'd only say "Hardware Failure - please contact etc etc for support, system halted". It happened a few times, at random intervals, and sometimes just sitting at idle.
I updated the BIOS with what asus has on their site, and seemed to have worked a bit better. Ran Prime95, it did its full stress tests, went on for a few hours, then I surfed the net a bit, and left the tower on overnight. Overnight it went into the blue screen.
So, I haven't changed any of the BIOS settings yet, since its all on auto right now after the update. I also updated my video card drivers from nvidia, but not the chpiset drivers (should i go with the asus driver? or the nvidia driver, which seems more up to date?)
Is there anything I else should be doing? Someone suggested to manually set the voltage for the CPU, and I'll probably manually time my RAM in the BIOS. Should I try re-installing windows? or is it the CPU that is faulty (even though it made it through the prime95 tests?) ?