catzcradle
Junior Member
Built a system for a co-worker, and as the gigbyte motherboard I normally use I picked up the MSI with a GB of OCZ platinum LL RAM and a AMD64 3500. Other components is an enermax whisper dual rail power supply, DVD-burner and a ATI 9600XT AIW graphics card.
Built and had to update to the Sept 04 bios as it wouldn't recognize dual channel memory. Worked fine for 2 months. User reported system locked, and refused to go past early chipset initialization on the d-bracket. I brought it home, flipped the switch, and it powered up and worked fine for a full weekend. Gave it back to the user, had no problems for a month when the same scenario happend again. Again brought it home, worked fine. Here I am one month later, and same thing again. I'm a bit at a loss to isolate the problem. I suspect memory, graphics, mobo or CPU. since the CPU was a PIB single install, I kinda doubt the problem. Getting a return accepted on the MOBO seems dicey as I can't reliable reproduce the problem. Same for graphics. Was thinking of running memtest86 to verify memory if I bring it home again.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Built and had to update to the Sept 04 bios as it wouldn't recognize dual channel memory. Worked fine for 2 months. User reported system locked, and refused to go past early chipset initialization on the d-bracket. I brought it home, flipped the switch, and it powered up and worked fine for a full weekend. Gave it back to the user, had no problems for a month when the same scenario happend again. Again brought it home, worked fine. Here I am one month later, and same thing again. I'm a bit at a loss to isolate the problem. I suspect memory, graphics, mobo or CPU. since the CPU was a PIB single install, I kinda doubt the problem. Getting a return accepted on the MOBO seems dicey as I can't reliable reproduce the problem. Same for graphics. Was thinking of running memtest86 to verify memory if I bring it home again.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
