rosetta@home blue screens 3800+ Athlon X2 AM2

[winr]

Rosetta runs a short while and then the PC gets a blue screen or sometimes reboots.

1 x Asus M2N4-SLI
AMD 3800+ X@ Dual Core AM2
2 x 512 DR
2 x geforce 7300 in SLI
1 x 320 Seagate SATA
1 x CDRW


I have run all of the Sandra stuff on it with no problems.

I just put it together for a Friend and was going to run rosetta on it for a couple of days to test it.


When rosetta it runs I have 2 tasks running at the same time.

Any suggestions ??

 

[Freewolf]

What's the PS?

 

[winr]

SUNBEANTECH 540 watt

3.3 28 A

5.0 36 A


12.1 20 A

12.2 18 A


12 volt line with PC rumming is around 12.14 with multimeter.

 

[Freewolf]

I doubt that is the problem then.
Is the system overclocked?

 

[winr]

Nope, the bus is at 201 mHZ.

Both cores show up as 2000 mHZ.


EDIT.

CPU has 1.3 core and it runs really cool with the stock fan.

 

[Freewolf]

How the temps when rosey is running?

 

[Freewolf]

Maybe the ram?

 

[winr]

I am going to see if I can monitor the temps before it crashes.


It took 2 tries to install BF1942, it locked up 2 minutes into the game.

Thanks for the help

 

[BlackMountainCow]

I'd suggest a 24 hour run of memtest86+ to see if that RAM is stable. (http://www.memtest.org/)

 

[BadThad]

What does the bluescreen say? It should show the culprit. Also, check the event logs for more clues.

 

[winr]

Hi Guys, thanks for all the replys.

You ever look through a stack of CD's only to find the one you want at the very bottom ??


Well the only thing left to try was the hard drive.

It had a Seagate SATA 320 gig and I replaced it with a 20 gig western digital 7200 rpm IDE drive.

XP PRO loaded great, all the driverd loaded without locking up, rebooting or blue screeening.

It has been running 2 instances of rosetta@home for 4 or 5 hours great.

Sorry for not answering back till now.

I did all this before reading your replys.

I didnt run memtest or write down the bluescreen info.

..............but....next time I have a problem I will remember to try all of the advice you guys suggested.


Now.....any suggestions on the hard drive acting this way ???


Regards and thanks again Guys. :sun:


EDIT:

1 bad stick of ram!!!!

Had the bad stick in mobo when loading SATA hard drive, must of corrupter OS.

Reloaded SATA with only 1 stick of ram and rosetta is crunching along fine.

I am getting old :Q , starting to over look things.