You know how it is build a new system (non ov erclocking) and trying to figure out how to get it rock solid stable. Well just rebuilt my media center and having issues trying to get it stable. I'm leaning towards it's a bad MOBo or the PCI EX[press is bad on the board.
Your take and thoughts are welcome.
ITEMS i'm SURE ARE OK:
Power Supply
Memory (memtest ran for about 1 hour plus no crashes or errors)
Cooling - Seems to be cooling fine.
Ambient Temp is about: 70.
It is not too dusty i do have a cat
All parts are new.
AMD X2 5600
Windows XP SP2
500 W Power Supply
2 Gigabytes Patriot 6400 Ram
ASUS M2A-Vm Motherboard
Silverstone LCO3 Media Case (tight fit)
2 small 60 mm fans, large fan on psu, front fan, and
new heat sink k989 (northbridge gets in the way of other heat sinks)
1 IDE 300 GB hard drive
1 Sata 3.0 I
7300 PCI E (evga card)
Hauppage PVR 1600 PCI
IDE hard drive is set to be Slave (of the cd rom and ahs the Os installed because windows would no install on the SATA for some reason?
So i installed the new heat sink and noticed temps are a lot cooler now. So I just let the system run fora few minutes all by itself and withing in about 40 minutes of just sitting idling in windows the error BSOD (PCIIDEX.SYS) was the stop code result.
I also have the following problem whihc is intermittent on bootup. NTLDR.SYS - basically the bootup sometimes just doesn't find the O'S (not sure of that one)
Hopefuly that's enough infO
Memory test is still running at 65% and no errors thus far
Your take and thoughts are welcome.
ITEMS i'm SURE ARE OK:
Power Supply
Memory (memtest ran for about 1 hour plus no crashes or errors)
Cooling - Seems to be cooling fine.
Ambient Temp is about: 70.
It is not too dusty i do have a cat
All parts are new.
AMD X2 5600
Windows XP SP2
500 W Power Supply
2 Gigabytes Patriot 6400 Ram
ASUS M2A-Vm Motherboard
Silverstone LCO3 Media Case (tight fit)
2 small 60 mm fans, large fan on psu, front fan, and
new heat sink k989 (northbridge gets in the way of other heat sinks)
1 IDE 300 GB hard drive
1 Sata 3.0 I
7300 PCI E (evga card)
Hauppage PVR 1600 PCI
IDE hard drive is set to be Slave (of the cd rom and ahs the Os installed because windows would no install on the SATA for some reason?
So i installed the new heat sink and noticed temps are a lot cooler now. So I just let the system run fora few minutes all by itself and withing in about 40 minutes of just sitting idling in windows the error BSOD (PCIIDEX.SYS) was the stop code result.
I also have the following problem whihc is intermittent on bootup. NTLDR.SYS - basically the bootup sometimes just doesn't find the O'S (not sure of that one)
Hopefuly that's enough infO
Memory test is still running at 65% and no errors thus far