More BSOD problems

[CheesePoofs]

My computer is:
Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.45ghz (9x273) (prime stable)
DFI nF4 Lanparty UT Ultra-d 6/23 bios
2x512mb pc3200 Corsair Value Select @ 204.75mhz (3/4 divider) @ 2.7v
ATI Radeon X800XL
160gb Maxtor PATA (primary boot drive)
6gb really old pata drive
OCZ Powerstream 420w
Nec 3520a DVD/CD rw drive
Floppy drive
Parallel port PCI card (for my ancient printer)
Airlink Wireless g card

I have been getting BSOD's at strange points recently. The past few times I have upgraded my video drives, I have gotten a BSOD when I hit reboot after removing my old driver and after hitting reboot after installing my new one. Yesterday, I went to watch a short movie clip using Media Player Classic and got an instant BSOD. I rebooted, played it in WMP, and got two BSOD's at separate times. I was also changing graphic settings for the AOE3 demo using Radlinker, and it gave me blank blue screens followed by a reboot when I had temporal AA enabled (although I don't think that is related to this issue).

This is the error message I found in the event viewer after the BSOD while watching the movie in MWP:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 9/8/2005
Time: 7:40:16 PM
User: N/A
Computer: [my computer's name]
Description:
Error code 1000007f, parameter1 00000008, parameter2 80042000, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 37 1000007
0020: 66 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d f Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00
0030: 30 30 30 30 30 38 2c 20 000008,
0038: 38 30 30 34 32 30 30 30 80042000
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 00, 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000

I googled the error code and it said it was often a memory error, so I ran memtest on my computer. First I tried using a 7/10 divider to lower my ram speed, but using that windows didn't even load; it got to the point where it normally begins to load then after a few seconds rebooted. At stock, I was able to watch the whole movie without a BSOD, but I didn't do much testing at it. I have just completed 8 hours of a full loop, about 10 of just test 8 and almost another 5 of test 5 with CPU back at 2450 and the ram at 205mhz. No errors anywhere.

I have no idea what is actually the cause of all of my problems. Any help is appreciated.

 

[wpshooter]

Why did you uninstall old drivers ? Is this something that you were instructed to do by ATI ?

 

[CheesePoofs]

I uninstalled the old ATI drivers because I have been having problems with getting BF2's aa to work properly and was hoping these would help.

 

[mechBgon]

1) are all of these here hooked up that exist on your variant? That's from the SLI version and I don't have the manual for your variant, so you might not have them all... but being on dial-up, finding out for sure is a half-hour process of me downloading the manual so if they exist on yours, more connections is always better.

2) I would crank the memory voltage up to 2.8V minimum on a DFI nF4 board, with the reputation they've got

3) the ValueSelect is generally regarded as not the best pick for DFI's nF4 boards either.

 

[CheesePoofs]

1) My board is exactly the same as the SLI version except for the chipset and mine doesn't have the additional 4 sata ports (but thats because I have the ultra-d, not ultra-dr), so I've got all of those power connections and they're all hooked in.

2) My ram defaults to 2.6v, so I thought 2.8 could be a bit much, but I'll try it.

3) I believe the way Corsair's Value Select ram works is that they buy the ram already packaged on a stick and they buy them in enormous quantities from different manufacturers. Some CVS HATES the my board, some is OK with it. If you have CVS that doesn't like this board, you will know it. The board won't and if it does, it'll be incredibly unstable. My board is fine except for these issues, but this is all I've had in 5 months of having this ram and obard combo.


I played that movie again last night at my overclocked speeds using Media Player Classic, and it made it through the whole thing without giving me a BSOD. I'm all confused