- Jul 12, 2006
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Hey guys, I've been reading these boards for ~3 years now and finally decided to post.
This is my 3rd build (see below), which I've had for about a year. I replaced an MSI NF4 Platinum Ultra board (spent many a day on that thread) with the Asus RS3200.
I also have a Toshiba DVD drive that was set to master, but with the NEC at slave these two never agreed on anything...with the Toshiba failing everytime I tried to install software or play a DVD using it. I have since unhooked this drive from my motherboard and now have the NEC as master all by itself. (I checked the jumpers before. There is no documentation for the Toshiba; I just assumed there was a standard placement for M and S?) Anyway, I chalk it up to bad hardware...
Current problem is that I've had several hard reboots. Running games or even Firefox, most recently. Usually I get the unknown driver message--and I haven't been able to pipoint the culprit (I usually blame Creative). Sometimes when it restarts, the system blames a failed overclock and asks me to restore default values to boot (I never overclock--at least, I haven't told my board to).
Recently, I got a memory failure. Downloaded Win Memory diagnostic, ran it off of floppy, and every test through the 1st pass failed. Is this the root of my problems? (I know FIrefox has memory leak issues...) If so, any advice?
Thanks for the help (esp. over the last few years even when I haven't participated)!
This is my 3rd build (see below), which I've had for about a year. I replaced an MSI NF4 Platinum Ultra board (spent many a day on that thread) with the Asus RS3200.
I also have a Toshiba DVD drive that was set to master, but with the NEC at slave these two never agreed on anything...with the Toshiba failing everytime I tried to install software or play a DVD using it. I have since unhooked this drive from my motherboard and now have the NEC as master all by itself. (I checked the jumpers before. There is no documentation for the Toshiba; I just assumed there was a standard placement for M and S?) Anyway, I chalk it up to bad hardware...
Current problem is that I've had several hard reboots. Running games or even Firefox, most recently. Usually I get the unknown driver message--and I haven't been able to pipoint the culprit (I usually blame Creative). Sometimes when it restarts, the system blames a failed overclock and asks me to restore default values to boot (I never overclock--at least, I haven't told my board to).
Recently, I got a memory failure. Downloaded Win Memory diagnostic, ran it off of floppy, and every test through the 1st pass failed. Is this the root of my problems? (I know FIrefox has memory leak issues...) If so, any advice?
Thanks for the help (esp. over the last few years even when I haven't participated)!
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