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New PC Reboots for some reason....

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Seus

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First my system specs:

CPU : AMD Athlon AM2 X2 4600+
Mobo: Asus M2N-SLI
RAM: (2) Corsair XMS2 DDR2-675 (2x1GB)
Vid: Gigabyte GeForce 7950GX2
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
HD: Western Digital 350GB SATA 7200RPM
O/S: Windows XP Pro w/SP2
PSU: Antec TruPowerII 550

Now the problem:
It doesn't matter if I'm just opening a web browser, playing a game, typing a word document. It seems to be completely random. I get error 'KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR'

I have all of the latest and greatest drivers installed, along with the latest BIOS. One thing though, is after all the drivers are installed, it still shows Two things as not being installed with drivers, and I have no clue what they are because nothing is hooked up to the system that I don't know about that would need drivers that I dont' have.

I have run Memtest86+ and it didn't find any errors in the RAM. Now I didn't run the entire test of all 10 tests, but running thru the first 4 it didn't find any errors. So I assumed that the ram was ok. Perhaps not?

I've looked at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=228753 but still am like 100% clueless in figuring this one out. I'll try changing the HD SATA Cable, in case the one hooked up to it is bad or something. I'm not sure. Anyone?
 
If you have more than one stick of RAM, I would start a process of elimination. Take all but one stick out, turn on the PC and use it as normal; see if it crashes. If its okay (doesnt crash), then repeat with the next stick of RAM. If it crashes, then remove that stick and try with another one. If it doesnt crash with the 2nd stick, then obviously the first RAM is bad; if it still crashes, then you need to report back so we can think about the next step.

Memtest doesnt always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
 
Memtest doesnt always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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While this statement is true, you do need to run ALL the tests and even then, run multiple passes as well.
 
I will try to run Memtest86+ on my pc tonight for the entire run. Also i removed all the sticks and used them one at a time and I still had windows crashing on me. Now i'm thinking maybe it's not the RAM but a virus? possible? Also, one thing that's of interest is that I just realized that Asus doesn't say that they support any Corsair ram in the Motherboard manual. Could this be a problem? Or could there be a problem with the ram only being PC675? and not PC800?
 
oh btw, everytime i run a virus scan it always crashes windows. I've tried 3 differ. virus scanners as well, and it happens with all of them being either AVG, Symantec or Mcafee.
 
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