I'm guessing RAM, however, even when I run the RAM at 100(200DDR), with all settings on slowest, I get this message right after Win XP finishes copying files for setup.
Specs:
GigaByte GA-7VRXP
Mushkin High Performance PC2100 2-2-2 DDR RAM <------culprit?
Radeon 32 meg DDR(original) AGP
[The motherboard has almost everything but the kitchen sink built in, therefore all I have in any expansion slots is the vid card]
Like I said, I just got both the mobo and the RAM in, and I'm trying to do a dirty install of WinXP(I need to be able to get back into windows so I can copy all my needed files to a CD-RW, yes, I know, I should've, all well, I don't have anything important on there anyway)
First, I installed my mobo without re-installing XP..... ran fine, except when i tried to do anything memory intensive(open IE, copy files, etc.) I got a random reboot. Now I'm trying dirty install, and I guess I'm gonna try clean install next.
What would be the proper procedure to test if my stick of ram is bad? I do have this computer I'm typing on, it's got a stick of generic DDR in it. Should I try that next to see if I get the error message during the install, or do you guys already know what the problem is?
zs
(Extended rig info is in sig)
I ran MEMTEST-86 off of Mushkin's site. It confirmed my hunch that the memory was bad. 512 errors in only one pass! each error was wierd too, for example:
each error looked like this:
good________bad
FFFFFFFF_____FFDFFFFF
FFFFFFFF_____FFDFFFFF
and so on. and the errors only started after the first hundred megs.
wierd.
I'm gonna get RMA from mushkin.
zs
Specs:
GigaByte GA-7VRXP
Mushkin High Performance PC2100 2-2-2 DDR RAM <------culprit?
Radeon 32 meg DDR(original) AGP
[The motherboard has almost everything but the kitchen sink built in, therefore all I have in any expansion slots is the vid card]
Like I said, I just got both the mobo and the RAM in, and I'm trying to do a dirty install of WinXP(I need to be able to get back into windows so I can copy all my needed files to a CD-RW, yes, I know, I should've, all well, I don't have anything important on there anyway)
First, I installed my mobo without re-installing XP..... ran fine, except when i tried to do anything memory intensive(open IE, copy files, etc.) I got a random reboot. Now I'm trying dirty install, and I guess I'm gonna try clean install next.
What would be the proper procedure to test if my stick of ram is bad? I do have this computer I'm typing on, it's got a stick of generic DDR in it. Should I try that next to see if I get the error message during the install, or do you guys already know what the problem is?
zs
(Extended rig info is in sig)
I ran MEMTEST-86 off of Mushkin's site. It confirmed my hunch that the memory was bad. 512 errors in only one pass! each error was wierd too, for example:
each error looked like this:
good________bad
FFFFFFFF_____FFDFFFFF
FFFFFFFF_____FFDFFFFF
and so on. and the errors only started after the first hundred megs.
wierd.
I'm gonna get RMA from mushkin.
zs