This hasn't been my weekend.

[Jesusthewererabbit]

Well, to make a long story short, Friday my guitar amp went up in smoke, and Saturday my 3850 died. Today, my computer started experiencing problems beyond the video card.

I have an HP m8200n

http://www.amazon.com/Pavilion...TYKRY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?*****&s=electronics&qid=1215401907&sr=8-1

that I bought almost a year ago. A week or so after the 3850 came out, I replaced the Lite-On PSU with a Cooler Master Extreme Power 550 and put in the 3850. This stopped the BSODs id been having, but there was still a few issues. I play a lot of TF2, and it would freeze or dump me back to the desktop.

After the card died, I pulled it out and went back to the onboard video. Everything worked fine, and I was able to get my TF2 fix, but now it is giving me constant BSODs. About all I can read is "Windows has encontered a problem and has shut down, uninstall any new hardware," and then something about a memory dump.

I'm thinking that something might have happened with my PSU, and it got my 3850 and the MB, wich is an ECS that I was planning on changing sometime anyway. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks!

 

[nerp]

This might be a dumb question, but have you ruled out memory problems?

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: nerp
This might be a dumb question, but have you ruled out memory problems?

Bingo

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

Originally posted by: nerp
This might be a dumb question, but have you ruled out memory problems?

Not dumb at all, and I'm an idiot for overlooking that. Thanks! I'll check it when I get home from work.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: Jesusthewererabbit

Originally posted by: nerp
This might be a dumb question, but have you ruled out memory problems?

Not dumb at all, and I'm an idiot for overlooking that. Thanks! I'll check it when I get home from work.

Grab the Memtest86+ iso, burn it to disc, boot it and let it run for a few hours. It should run error free through all the passes a few times. You probably already know this, though.

Good luck. Nothing worse than gremlin errors that make no sense at all.

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

I'm about to burn Memtest to a disk, wish me luck!



EDIT: Well, it won't let me run it! I've tried three different disks from three separate computers, and I can't get any of them to run. Something very strange is going on here...

 

[nerp]

What happens, in detail? Are you getting a specific error message?

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

I restart, go to the boot menu, and select the CD/DVD drive. It spins up, the light comes on like it is reading it, and then it proceeds to boot into windows. No error code at all. I really think I must have done something to really anger the gremlins, because they are really messing with me now. I'm actually posting on the computer right now, been running for four hours with absolutely no problems. I haven't run anything more intensive than Winamp on it though.