Opteron 144 @ 2.8ghz stable for 1 month...unstable now.....

[lektrix]

It was running rock solid for around a month but these past 2 weeks Ive been getting BSODs from doing things like surfing the net, opening up folders, to playing games....sometimes it happens within 5 minutes, sometimes ith appens within a few hours..... the overclock was tested stable for many hours but now it's not?

Heck I can't even run it 200-300mhz more or else it would BSOD....

Can it be my PSU? It was freshly RMAed from Antec 2 months ago and maybe they gave me a old pos?

 

[shinzwei]

or can it be your CPU.

 

[lopri]

What's your case temp? Is air above RAM sticks moving? Sounds more like RAM problem. How much voltage is it getting?

 

[designit]

It could be your rams.
have done a memtest on them?

 

[Fallengod]

I agree. Run memtest.

 

[lektrix]

Case temp is around 25 degrees....

And I also ran the memory @ Memtest for more than 20 hours successfully at 280MHz 2.8V (real voltage is closer to 2.88V) a few months ago. Normally in my overclock HTT is 310 and since I can't run @ 1:1 I use a divider of 5:6 which should run the memory way below the tested 280MHz.. I also used a64 tweaker to manually edit all the other settings so it should be tweaked perfectly......

 

[ayabe]

Have you scanned your HD's? You could have some bad sectors depending on what BSD's you are getting.

 

[lektrix]

I scanned them when I first got them so they should be fine....my Seagate 400GB was also newly rmaed from Seagate but Im pretty sure its fine..

 

[Maximilian]

Random BSOD's could be a number of things. Bad drivers, dodgy mobo. I never fixed the problem of random BSOD's with an old system i had, eventually i just gave up and replaced it.

 

[HO]

If you have enough BSOD events (actually, one can do it), your pagefile can become corrupted. From then on, you can have BSODs out the wazoo and all your attempts to fix the problem will appear not to work because you've never addressed the real issue.

The remedy? Set your pagefile to none. Reboot. Set your pagefile back to whatever it was before. Reboot.

It's worth a shot.

 

[lektrix]

Another thing I want to note......when I tried reinstalling my motherboard chipset drivers a few months back it too caused a BSOD and it was not running on an overclocked speed ..

 

[lektrix]

Weird, Im running @ 2.8GHz again but this time im running the memory @ 2-2-2-5 3:2 divider 200 mhz and it works fine no BSODs in 3 days...