Blue Screen, New Build

[yELLOthar]

Alright, I just built a new PC, and I already sent the mobo back because I thought it was the problem. Well, I'm still having problems. (sorry for sounding brief, but I've got help (that didn't work) from multiple forums so far, I'll try to stay specific ).

SPECS:

Athlon X2 3800+
Asus A8N SLI Premium
eVGA 7800GT
2GB Corsair XMS (3-3-3-8)
250GB WD SATAII
Antec Truepower II 550w

Everything is at stock.

Well, I get this error every now and then:

STOP: 0x0000009c (0x00000004, 0x8054d5f0, 0xb2000000, 0x00070f0f)

I took out my Audigy2 ZS and reinstalled XP w/ SP2 because it was causing problems (as soon as I put it in, installed drivers, and rebooted, it messed up).

Also, my PC doesn't boot on the first try. I push power, and the drive access light comes on, and everything looks like it's booting (all lights, fans, etc.), but it never loads anything. I was reading another post here where a guy said it may be a Motherboard/Power Supply issue, because he heard they weren't very nice to each other. I have the same PSU as he did (except he had 480w) and the same motherboard. All hardware has been updated as well.

Basically, I was playing CS:S and I got the error.

If anyone has any suggestions, please don't hesitat

 

[yELLOthar]

I just started CS:S again, and this time, the screen went black, and the sound is just repeating

I manually set my mem voltage to 2.7v as well, hoping that might fix it. Extra voltage can't hurt can it (it's rated at 2.6v).

 

[order66]

I have never had a error like that.But check out this link it might help you out a little.



http://www.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/41472.html

 

[yELLOthar]

According to that link, it could be a network problem, but I don't know. I'll wait and see if it ever pops up when I'm not using the network :/

 

[yELLOthar]

Do you guys know if the Windows Hotfix messes with Source games? I installed that after the blue screen, and now it loads up find, and I join the server. But like 5 seconds after the game is loaded (i can pick my team, and start watching people for like a second) it just freezes, then the screen eventually just shuts off (goes into standby mode :?). This is so annoying because I played CS:S for like 2 hours before the blue screen, and now I can't play it at all

EDIT:

Rebooted, and now I can't do anything but move my mouse. I go over the task bar and it shows an hour glass and I can't click anything. This is pissing me off.

 

[yELLOthar]

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[yELLOthar]

Guys, could this be a hard drive problem? I formated and installed Windows, and now the screen just freezes. The reason I think it could be a HDD problem is because I updated CS:S, and then it froze. I restarted a few times and the update was still there, but then after one restart, it had to update from 75%. Then it froze again. Oh, and I've tried both sticks of RAM by themselves in the proper slot (B1 for single stick on my mobo, even tried A1 just to be safe) and it didn't help. I upped the voltage on the RAM to 2.7v, still effed up. Upped the CPU to 1.4125v from 1.4v, still freezes. I've RMAd the mobo once (although I don't think I needed to now, since I'm still having problems. I guess it could be the GPU, but I doubt it. The reason is because when it freezes, I can still move the mouse around a little bit, and then it goes black. I've found that when it freezes and I move the mouse around and click the start button and stuff, it goes black like seconds later.

That leaves the HDD. And I got this error before:

Stop 0x0000007A or KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

http://www.updatexp.com/stop-messages.html

If you search for it on that page, you can see that it mentions this:

Stop 0x7A can be caused by bad sectors in the virtual memory paging file, disk controller error, virus infection, or memory hardware problems.

And since I don't think it's a RAM hardware problem, that once again points to the HDD! Would the HDD also cause the boot problems (randomly not booting, have to restart a once sometimes, other times have to restart like 10 times)?

 

[ta8689]

Im saying either hard drive or PSU. I had a bad psu once and it kept messing up my o/s install. Probably hard drive though. (My first guess would be mobo too)

 

[yELLOthar]

Well, I'm fairly certain it isn't mobo now. And my PSU is showing good voltages in BIOS (11.96 and 4.97 and 3.32). Yea, I guess that HDD is getting gone. I just transferred all kinds of crap to it too

 

[yELLOthar]

Well, I disconnected the HDD, and it still randomly boots up. So I'm assuming the HDD isn't causing the boot problems, but I'm going to assume it's causing the other problems. It wouldn't cause a problem booting to BIOS anyway, would it? Something is wrong along w/ the HDD I guess

 

[ta8689]

try unplugging your floppy and checking your cd drive. ive had floppy problems in the past where it totally messed everything up. Im ready to melt my floppy drive with an acetylene torch.

 

[yELLOthar]

Do I need to use the EZ_Plug thing if I don't have SLI? Because I'm not using it right now. I thought it was SLI only, but maybe not? And I'll try the floppy thing and CD thing.

 

[yELLOthar]

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[yELLOthar]

Originally posted by: yELLOthar
Do I need to use the EZ_Plug thing if I don't have SLI? Because I'm not using it right now. I thought it was SLI only, but maybe not? And I'll try the floppy thing and CD thing.

Can someone answer the EZ_Plug question please?

And I tried the floppy cables and cd cables, it still had boot problems and instability :/ My friend is coming over today, so I'll be able to stick some of his parts in my PC to see if that helps and stuff, only because I'm letting him use my 7800GT all day and I get the 6600GT...