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bwatson283

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I just built a new dualcore system and have a slight issue.
It was working good last night, but just a tad sluggish at logons..... Now today i have been having auto reboots. After one of the reboots, i looked in the bios and see that it is at 89f for the CPU and for dual core that is damn good.
Spec:
AMDx2 2.6 dual1mb cache
3 segate 7200.9 in raid 0
xfx pci-e card
Zalaman cpu cooler: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118019
Thermaltake case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133155
750w PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153036


With that huge ass fan on the side and two 120ms in the case, i would say i have proper cooling with those specified links. I am thinking it might be PSU not pumping out the juice fast enough or memory issue. I have 4 gigs of ram installed, but windows only reads 3.5. the bios sees all 4gig fine.

As i think about it, it might be ram since windows reads it wrong.


Please give me any insite.
 
any ideas, or are you guys/gals not liking me? might be the latter.

with the 4gigs of ram, and windows taking 512mb chunk out of it, cant be a shared memory program.......i hope not........video is 256 pci-e
 
You might get a better response in the Tech Support area.

I'm with you though, thinking ram or PSU. First of all though, XP 32bit is well documented as not supporting 4gb of ram. You'd need 64bit OS to see all 4. You're lucky though, I've heard people on the forums only seeing 3. So while that in itself is not a ram problem, I would still put only one stick at a time and see if your problems continue. Also try running a program such as memtest on it to see if it sees any errors.

You may also want to try another power supply in the rig to see if that clears up things. I am not familiar with using one, but there are testers out there you can plug your power supply into to test it.

By the way, I'm jealous of your temps! 😀
 
You told us brands and models for other parts, except your memory... Hmmm :roll:
Strip your memory down to two twin sticks and see how things go.
 
Originally posted by: dph1077
You might get a better response in the Tech Support area.

I'm with you though, thinking ram or PSU. First of all though, XP 32bit is well documented as not supporting 4gb of ram. You'd need 64bit OS to see all 4. You're lucky though, I've heard people on the forums only seeing 3. So while that in itself is not a ram problem, I would still put only one stick at a time and see if your problems continue. Also try running a program such as memtest on it to see if it sees any errors.

You may also want to try another power supply in the rig to see if that clears up things. I am not familiar with using one, but there are testers out there you can plug your power supply into to test it.

By the way, I'm jealous of your temps! 😀
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WRONG!!!

Windows XP supports 4 gigs of ram. If you read your mobo manual you will notice that AMD mobos report 3.5 gigs of ram instead of 4. So this is not a problem.

I suggest you do the following to troubleshoot and check if it is the memory or the PSU.
Open control panel and then open System. Click on the "Advanced" tab and then "Start up and recovery" >settings. Under "System Failure" UNCHECK "Automatically restart".

Next time when your pc restarts it should stop at the blue screen with white font message.
See what will be written. It should give you some clues. Report back what you see.

I don't think it is the PSU. It could be everything else, RAM, HDD, VGA, MOBO or even a driver failure.

Check this and report later.
 
ya, i have been experimenting all morning.....im almost to wits end.......this is pissing me off!

I took the las stick of ram out and it read all 3 gig in bios and windows just fine, but i still have reboot issue. Ill put it aside for now. ill run memtest later.
 
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