Recent content by brutrak

Hi, I'm planning to upgrade my system with an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Mobo + Pentium 3.2 800FSB (Northwood). My doubt is the optimal RAM to match the above components. I currently own a stick of 512 Mbs Kingston ValueRam DDR333. I guess this will be a bottleneck for the system..... If this is...

No, boots normally. But, besides the "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" BSOD, sometimes hangs while in BIOS setup. I'm almost sure that's a hardware problem, just trying to identify which component. Could be the motherboard?

A fast question... if the computer sometimes hangs while browsing the BIOS, does this indicate clearly a motherboard problem? Or still a bad CPU/memory can make a BIOS hang? This is related to my problem...

Thanks for the info, I had already seen it. For each one of the causes that Microsoft's URL describes: 1) System bus errors. 2) Memory errors that may include parity or Error Correction Code (ECC) problems. 3) Cache errors in the processor or hardware. 4) Translation...

All drivers are up to date: - Nvidia 56.72 forceware (from nvidia site) - Via Hyperion 4-in-1 4.51. - XP SP1 I've removed one of the memory sticks, and it keeps failing. 90% "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION", 10% "IRQL_LESS_...". Something that happened to me that could be useful: The computer has...

Excuse the lack of info. Here are my specs: Motherboard Soltek SL-85ERV2 Pentium 4 2.4B 533FSB Memory Kingston 512MBs DDR333 HD Seagate Barracuda 40GBs DVD-Rewriter Nec 2500A MSI Geforce 4200ti Generic Power Supply 300W Microsoft Sidewinder Wheel USB Not overclocked at the moment, but...

Hi guys, I'm new here. Hope I can help later on, but now I have a problem. Since some weeks ago I've been experiencing blue screens in my windows XP system, showing a MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION error. This only happens when I'm playing my F1 favorite simulator. I know this is probably a hardware...