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Is it my crucial ballistix, or something else???

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monkelyoy

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Frustration?
Trying to build a new computer for about a month and had a number of issues. Wanted to upgrade my old Athlon/AGP system- purchased an ASUS P5N-E SLI, 8800GT, Coolermaster 750 PSU, G. Skill PC 6400 RAM and 6750 CPU.

At first, couldn?t get the system to boot at all- read about the RAM requirements of the ASUS board so I switched to Crucial Ballistix PC6400. Was able to get Windows loaded but had significant system instability including error with memtest. Thought it was the NVIDIA chipset giving me grief so I replaced it with Gigabyte P35 DS3R mainboard. More stable, but still with problems with random BSOD and lock-ups. Unfortunately, I had the motherboard power cord only half plugged in on one of my many rebuilds, heard a ?pop? smelled some smoke- dead motherboard.

My current set up includes an Abit IP35 Pro motherboard, same 6750 CPU, same Coolermaster 750 W CPU, Same Crucial Ballistix memory. Read about having to manual set the memory timings and increased the voltage to 2.2. Voila! Stable under multiple memtest passes and ortho for hours. My joy was short lived, as I walked in this morning to see the old blue screen buddy.

After 3 motherboards, I?m thinking it?s a memory, PSU or CPU problem. I have new OCZ PC8500 memory coming and I purchased an X3 1000 Watt power supply to test.
Any thoughts before I start randomly testing?

 
Ran memtest after originally increasing voltage to 2.2 and manually setting timings. No problems after multiple runs.

However, ran it again after the last blue screen and multiple errors appeared. Increased voltage again to 2.3 volts and I was able to run it again without errors.

If I have a memtest problem that is intermittent, is this the memory or something else?

 
Tried my new PSU yesterday.

Ran Memtest86 X 3 no problem. When I ran SP2004 after 30 minutes received a brief blue screen flash and computer rebooted. Ran memtest86 again without errors. Have not tried to stress system since then.

Well, chnaging the PSU didn't help. Memory seems to be more stable with no memtest86 error since I increased the voltage to 2.2 and manually entered timings. Could it still be my memory? I have new memory arriving today that I'll test. could it be a heat or CPU problem? COuld it be since I loaded Windows with unstable memory in teh beginning my Windows install is faulty or corrupted. Pretty much out of ideas...
 
Loaded up my new OCZ PC2 8500 memory.

Stable on Memtest86+ and SP2004 for 7 hours. Finally!

Guess I damaged my memory when my MB shorted. Only took me 3 motherboards, 2 sets of RAM, and 2 power supplies to get a stable set up....
 
:disgust:Now you sound like my wife....

Yes, I should have stayed far away from the inside of my computer but I have been building my own for years and never had these problems. Components just seem to be less compatible these days.

I should have bought that cyberpower rig in the beginning, but I wanted to save money. Hah!
 
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