Bad memory? PC restarting with ballistix

[jmabe]

PC restarting at random, Ballistix errors anyone?

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Hi folks,

I just purchased new parts and put my PC together.

The specs are below:

AMD Athlon 3500+ (stock cooling)
DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-d
Crucial Ballistix 2x512mb DDR3200
XFX GF6800GT PCI-E
3 SATA HDs
Enermax 430w Power
4 Fan case cooling

Here's what happens, when I play games such as HL2, everything is normal until I leave the game. When I do, the system restarts with no warnings at all.

When I run PCMark 2005, the system crashes during the Video Compression tests usually, sometimes in the Web Page loading test. It passes the 3D tests.

Oh, and software-wise, I also must say that usually, after rebooting, I won't be able to login Windows as the system restarts over and over again.

My technician told me it probably was a problem with my memory, it was the only part with unusual temperature. It's running at a reported 50 C. I ran memtest86 for a long time, like 3 hours, and got no errors. I also ran it after my PC rebooted, and got no errors.

My voltage in the Bios PC Genie is about 2.66v, and the voltages are not oscilating according to the technician.

What frustrates me about this problem is that I get no error messages, so I can't know for sure what is wrong.

I also contacted Crucial support and they told me 50 C is within memory ranges.

I have 2 more sets of memory here, a sealed Crucial Ballistix just like this one, and 2 Geil 512mb 433mhz Golden Dragon modules, which I don't know if is compatible with my AMD64.

Is there something I can do regarding this problem? Is there something I can disable in Windows to properly diagnose the memory, or even a benchmark program that would be efficient?

Regards

 

[boomdawg]

Okay to me it doesn't necessarily sound like memory but if you really want to test it you need to run memtest for longer than 3 hours like 12. Like I said I don't think it's it and don't know what else or how else to test but run that longer for a better answer.

 

[jmabe]

Hi,

I disable windows bootup when system erros occur, so I found out I was getting a PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 4E error.

So I disabled external cache as suggested and everything worked wonders.

But since I needed the external cache, I removed one of the memory modules and enabled it again. BINGO! Everything working fine. I removed the module and inserted the other one. Blue screen on me! It was bad memory. I hope I can RMA it ASAP...

Thanks for the support...