Let me go through my problem thoroughly, I didn't know which forum to put this in so I just started a new thread here.
I went to Fry's on BF and purchased their ECS nForce4 939a motherboard + 3800+ X2 combo for around $300. The deal which I pounced on has now turned into a nerve wracking nightmare.
I bought two 1GB sticks of Corsair XMS PC3200 RAM, an eVGA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB, and a 74GB WD Raptor SATA HD to go with it. Powering this rig is an Ultra 500W PSU. It's got 34A on the +12V rail and 30A on the +5V. I'm using a 24 pin connector to power the mobo so I know it's not an issue.
I run Windows XP x64 edition.
The problem is this:
I tried installing World of Warcraft over USB CDROM and the computer would just shutoff out of nowhere after installing about ~200MB of data. So I was like...okay maybe it's a USB issue. I used an IDE CDROM and the same happened after ~900MB. I haven't tried it with any other games yet....I might try it with FEAR or Call of Duty 2 in a bit.
My motherboard has the latest BIOS. I've installed the AMD dual core driver, nForce4 drivers, latest ForceWare drivers, etc. I've read that the IDE drivers that nVidia provides has problems so I uninstalled it. Same thing happens.... I don't understand why the computer would just shutoff like that. It's not a heat issue or anything.... I ran Prime95 on both cores perfectly for 10+ hours.
I also tried running the latest version of memtest+ but it won't load for some reason?.... Memtest 3.2 doesn't support nForce4 so it gives erroneous results. No matter what RAM I put in (even old PC2700 RAM that has served me for years), it always fails at test #5 in the same parts...giving 22000 errors total.
When the systems under some load I can hear the coils next to my CPU buzz. This probably has nothing to do with it, but I think it's kind of weird.
If anybody knows what's going on or can spare some advice, I'd greatly greatly appreciate it! I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out. Somebody please toss me a fresh bone!
Thanks so much in advance!
EDIT:
Fixed. reloaded 32bit XP and I'm guessing it has to do with the drivers!
I went to Fry's on BF and purchased their ECS nForce4 939a motherboard + 3800+ X2 combo for around $300. The deal which I pounced on has now turned into a nerve wracking nightmare.
I bought two 1GB sticks of Corsair XMS PC3200 RAM, an eVGA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB, and a 74GB WD Raptor SATA HD to go with it. Powering this rig is an Ultra 500W PSU. It's got 34A on the +12V rail and 30A on the +5V. I'm using a 24 pin connector to power the mobo so I know it's not an issue.
I run Windows XP x64 edition.
The problem is this:
I tried installing World of Warcraft over USB CDROM and the computer would just shutoff out of nowhere after installing about ~200MB of data. So I was like...okay maybe it's a USB issue. I used an IDE CDROM and the same happened after ~900MB. I haven't tried it with any other games yet....I might try it with FEAR or Call of Duty 2 in a bit.
My motherboard has the latest BIOS. I've installed the AMD dual core driver, nForce4 drivers, latest ForceWare drivers, etc. I've read that the IDE drivers that nVidia provides has problems so I uninstalled it. Same thing happens.... I don't understand why the computer would just shutoff like that. It's not a heat issue or anything.... I ran Prime95 on both cores perfectly for 10+ hours.
I also tried running the latest version of memtest+ but it won't load for some reason?.... Memtest 3.2 doesn't support nForce4 so it gives erroneous results. No matter what RAM I put in (even old PC2700 RAM that has served me for years), it always fails at test #5 in the same parts...giving 22000 errors total.
When the systems under some load I can hear the coils next to my CPU buzz. This probably has nothing to do with it, but I think it's kind of weird.
If anybody knows what's going on or can spare some advice, I'd greatly greatly appreciate it! I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out. Somebody please toss me a fresh bone!
Thanks so much in advance!
EDIT:
Fixed. reloaded 32bit XP and I'm guessing it has to do with the drivers!
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