Gigabyte UD3P w/ Gskill 2x2g F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ errors

[garndawg]

Folks,

Getting some "Serious Error" hangups and pretty crappy video playback with the following new build...

MB: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
RAM: GSkill 2x2G DDR2 F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ
CPU: E5200 Wolfdale
Video: GeForce 9600 GSO 1GB GDDR2 PCIe (XFX PVT96OZDFU)
TV: Hauppage 2250
OS: MCE 2005 SP3

Note: The TV card migrated from another system, so I have confidence in it. The MB, CPU, and RAM are new.

Basically, the machine runs fine, most of the time. I can play COD4 and 5, surf, whatever. Trouble begins when I start video (like the entry movies in COD). Streaming also hangs (ESPN360). Worst of all, playing TV through MCE hangs/hesitates badly and begins to lag. After about 2-3 minutes of watching TV, I'm at least 30 seconds behind the OTA broadcast on a regular TV tuner. Problems seem restricted to video playback.

Last, every morning, I wake to find that my PC has rebooted due to a "Serious Error".

I strongly suspect a RAM/MB conflict, and was about to go buy something off the Gigabyte approved list, but thought to ask you opinion on here first.

Thanks in advance for any/all help.

 

[Vincent]

Run memtest to check your RAM. I have two of those kits on an Asus motherboard and both are working fine for me.

 

[RussianSensation]

Bump the voltage on the ram to 2.0V and relax the timings to 5-5-5-15. Then run MemTest86+ to isolate the ram.

Run the the system without the TV card to isolate it as the issue.

Try another version of NV drivers.

Update to the latest BIOS, load optimized defaults.

Make sure your videocard is secured properly into the PCIe slot.

Do you have a good PSU?

 

[elconejito]

Ditto what the others said, but I'd also suggest checking your hard drive too. My media center was getting random reboots and I double and triple checked everything and couldn't find the cause. Checkdisk said the HDD was OK, but on a whim I used the WD diagnostics and got all kinds of SMART errors. Then I ran another chkdsk and got the errors (which didn't show before). Weird. Replaced the drive and it's been working like a champ ever since.

 

[garndawg]

Updated Nv drivers to 190, no help. No updated BIOS for the MB. MB settings are the default (i.e. no overclocking). Running a RAID on the HD's, so I'd like to think it's not a HD h/w error. PSU is a 500w, not new, and has been running fine for about six months or so.

OK, so now Memtest won't run...

Downloaded memtest86+ v4.0, built the .iso disc and rebooted. Got all the way to

Loading............................

Then....nada....

Downloaded it again, built three discs (thinking of a corrupt disc or file) and tried it again. Same thing. All three discs.

Hmmm.....