fresh install...ummmmmmmmm :confused;

[SaintGRW]

Ok this all started 2 weeks ago. I wanted to build a new computer.. I purchased the following
2 Sticks of PC-3200
1 P4P800 Motherboard (which I sent back and upgraded to a P4P800 Deluxe)
1 P4 2.8c

skipping the 1st week with the P4P800 MB I am now here with my P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard.

I tried a fresh install..1st time it went thru fine. then came some issues. my uncle has the exact same motherboard, we took my HD to his house and installed XP there installed service pack 1 and the critical updates, and the onboard LAN. it ran fine for ~1 hour at his house so I said alright let's see how it goes on mine. I take it home. hook it up and everything is fine for about an hour. I watched my temps they were all fine and dandy 25C stayed like that the whole time. I installed the onboard sound and the drivers for my video card, rebooted everything seemed fine, after some more use (just surfing and chatting nothing hard) it reboots.... now the problems seem to be back, I get a blue IRQ screen (didn't write down the error) and had it reboot itself on me a couple times. when I got back into windows it gave me a windows error box and led me to a webpage that said driver error but was unsure of the driver....this morning it booted up and ran for 30 minutes without a single problem.

and just to get some stuff out of the way I have done the following...
Tried a different power supply, different HD, different CD-ROM, different RAM, different Motherboard, different video card.

the ONLY thing's that have been the same are 1. both video cards were ATi (ATI RAGE PRO 128 32MB, ATI Radeon 7200 64MB) 2. The P4 2.8c

does the P4P800 MB's not like ATi cards? or could it be my chip is bad... or the heatsink isn't getting full contact. the only thing that leads me to belive the chip is fine is because using the ASUS monitor temps are fine until the problem occurs.... should I return the chip or get a new heat sink.

(side note: everything seemed more stable when overclocked 10%)

 

[egale]

One thing I would do is to check the voltage to your memory. If you haven't already done so, up the vdimm to 2.75.

 

[egale]

Also, run memtest 86. You may have some flaky memory.

 

[EeyoreX]

Also, run memtest 86. You may have some flaky memory.

That would actually be my first suggestion. Maybe it's just me, but if I'm not overclocking I don't see the need to adjust voltages from their defaults. I could be wrong, as my knowledge here is limited. I do, however, stand by running memtest first, since RAM is more likely than not the problem.

\Dan

 

[LemonHerbWRX]

I have had problems with installing windows 2k and XP on computers before and generally it was because of a bad component, RAM or HD generally although once I was able to just change which SIMM slots the ram was in and that fixed the problem. memtest sounds like a very good idea, are you both on the same version of the mobo BIOS? Try upgradeing any drivers and flashing the mobo BIOS to the newest version. Incase you haven't (sounds like you have though) set XP not to reboot on error (in startup and recovery) so you can get more information on any errors.