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Crashing out of Windows - Suspect Motherboard

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Britboy

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I built a new PC about 6 weeks ago and it worked fine. Recently noticed that one of my RAM chips was not working, only counted up to 512MB when booting and in Win 2K, system still worked fine though. Before I got chance to test the RAM chips I encountered major problems. I can boot into Win2K but within a minute of trying to do anything in the OS my PC will restart itself, I then get Win2K checking my drive integrity and loading Win2K again, then same problem, crashes again. I get the messages that various files have caused an error, explorer.exe and several others.

Given that I have a Shuttle AK31A, and seeing many other posts of system flakiness and bad boards, I get the feeling that the mobo is to blame. I restored my C: drive from a Ghost image (created when everthing worked like a dream) and it made no difference.

My first plan is to move the RAM chips around and try and identify if that is the cause - Bad RAM or bad RAM slot. Anyone have any suggestions if this fails to ID the problem.

System Specs:
Athlon 1600 XP, 2 x 512 Mushkin DDR, SB Live 5.1, IBM 60GB 7200RPM, GeForce 3 Ti 200 (VisionTek), Linksys NIC
 
I had a similar problem, and decided to lower the cpu core voltage by .100 to 1.64. It worked. The mobo is either reporting the wrong voltage for the cpu, or my heatsink in inadequate. Ordered a thermalright sk6, and it may fix the problem. Currently running my xp 1700 at 139 fsb at 1.64 volts or whatever it actually is.
 
Thanks for the reply, think its the ram after doing a little testing though, my settings are all at default. I tried one of the ram chips in all other slots and it was not recognized. Took it out and the PC worked fine, going to call Mushkin tomorrow to get a replacement chip.
 
Which driver are you using for geforece 3? If your using the lastest 23.11 that may be causing the problem. If you are using that driver go into vga mode and install the 21.83 and that should solve the problem.
 
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