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stability problems, what to do now?

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exin

Junior Member
Hi!

I'm hoping one of you might be able to help me a bit here. I've just bought a new system (specs will follow below) and I'm having stability issues. The system started crashing right from the beginning whenever i played a game to try the system out. I figured it might be the PSU so i replaced it with an Enermax Liberty 620W to make sure i had enough power but the stability issues didn't go away. I've tried flashing the BIOS to the latest version, increase Vcore voltage and memory voltage but whatever I do it always fails with a rounding error within a minute when running the blend test in Orthos or Prime95. I've tried memtest86 and completed one pass without any errors. The cpu temperature doesn't go over 62-63 degrees so I'm not having heat problems there anyway.

I'm kinda stuck here and unfortunately this is the only S-775 and PCI-E system I've got so I can't replace anything to try to find out what's not working as it should that way. What should i do next?

ASUS P5B
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
2 x 512MB Corsair DDR2 PC6400 XMS2
Sapphire X1900XT 256MB PCI-E
Western Digital Raptor 36.7 GB SATA150
Soundblaster Live
Enermax Liberty 620W

Sincerely,
Exin

Edit: Right after i updated the BIOS I could actually run the blend test for about 45 minutes without it failing and after that I played some games for five or six hours without any problems at all. That was last night but today it is back to normal again.
 
Try to take out one memory stick and see if it still crashes. If it does, try it with the other stick taken out.

I don't know too much about the new core duo, but I thought they were supposed to run pretty cool; as in close to my AMD 64 3800, which is hitting about 37°C after being on for some time. 60s sound kinda high.

Are you getting good airflow in your case? What is the temp of the video card? Try pointing a regular house fan inside the case (side panel taken off of course) and see what happens w/ lower temps.
 
It seems I've got a bad memory stick. The system kept crashing with the first one I tried but when I'm using the other one it's fine. I'm gonna RMA them tomorrow to get new ones. It's just too bad I haven't got any other DDR2 memory sticks I can use while waiting for the new ones to arrive..

Thanks alot for the help.
 
The only weird thing though is that memtest doesn't show any errors when i run a few passes to test the memory.
 
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