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Troubleshooting help needed.

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de8212

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System is in sig.


I thought my RAM was the cause of my blue screens but I brought it to work and tested it in my work PC and all was well.
When I boot, my system freezes at the first screen displaying the RAM and hard drives, etc. The one that you would press F2 to get into BIOS. I realize it's not alot of info but has anyone had this issue and what did the problem end up being? I don't have any spare parts and really don't want to strip my work PC down and remove the cpu. I think it's either the cpu or maybe the motherboard.
I might could put my cpu in my dad's pc but will Windows 7 have any kind of issues with that type of a hardware change? I don't want my dad to have to call to activate or whatever.

Any other good way of figuring this out?
 
If you see anything on your screen, it's probably not your CPU.
Have you cleared the CMOS memory and set all your BIOS options back to default?
 
It freezes and won't let me into BIOS. Over the past month or two when I thought it was the RAM I already went back to defaults.
 
The Quad Q9550 is normally 2.83GHz (333x8.5), so looking at your sig it's overclocked at 3.8GHz (447x8.5) (34% gain). The DDR2 ram at 800MHz seems to be the problem, needs to be at least 1066MHz. Check your BIOS settings when it's OC'd at see if ram is set at 1066 MHz.
 
mfenn said:
Have you tried running in a bare bones config (outside of the case, 1 DIMM, GPU, no HDD, no ODD)?
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Not yet, will do. Was just hoping for someone that may have been in my situation and could maybe narrow it down.

SKORPI0 said:
The Quad Q9550 is normally 2.83GHz (333x8.5), so looking at your sig it's overclocked at 3.8GHz (447x8.5) (34% gain). The DDR2 ram at 800MHz seems to be the problem, needs to be at least 1066MHz. Check your BIOS settings when it's OC'd at see if ram is set at 1066 MHz.
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Sorry, it has been stock speed for at least 2 months. When I first started having some blue screens I reverted back to 2.83GHz.

Blain said:
Unplug the power supply from the wall...
Short out these two pins for a few seconds...
That will clear your CMOS memory and set your BIOS back to default.
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I did that as soon as I got home from work today. Sadly, it didn't do anything helpful. It did reset it because now it freezes at the Gigabyte flash screen (normally I have that turned off in the BIOS).


So, thanks for the info everyone, I really appreciate it. Probably won't have a chance to strip everything out of the case and test it as mfenn suggested so if anyone has any other ideas please post them up.
 
Update -

So, I left it at the splash scren and came back a few hours later. It went to some "Restore PC" screen (it also did this once or twice back when I first started getting blue screens) and I chose OK. Took a while but it rebooted and I was able to get into BIOS. Went ahead and set everything to Fail Safe settings. Then booted into windows.

So, here I am and everything is working but it won't last, I know.

What could this be? I will take all the sticks of RAM to test at work tomorrow but would this latest update rule out cpu and mobo? Graphics card is OK as well. Maybe I will just run memtest tonight but if it's any of the RAM then why did one stick work fine at work today for an hour and then my PC immediately freeze when I brought it back home????
 
Memory that works in one PC is not guaranteed to work in another. Sounds like a bad stick of memory to me.
 
I've only had one processor go bad on me. The L2 cache on the CPU was damaged or just died, which made the system run very very slow.
But it was only like a 500MHz single core processor, not a 2.83GHz quad core.
 
Memtest86 ran all night with two of the four sticks and no errors. I'll try the other two sticks tonight but since the problems were happening at times that I had each stick individually installed, I think the problem lies elsewhere. Still wondering if it could be some kind of intermittent problem with either the cpu or mobo? I've had a mobo fry last year due to power surge but it was gone completely, no in between. Never had a cpu go out before.

So, I don't know what to do now because it will probably work for a day or two and then go out again.

Surely, it couldn't be any kind of software/windows corruption seeing that it would hang before POST, right?

Any other thoughts?
 
Came home today before lunch and loaded the other 2 sticks up to run memtest. Just got back and they are error free as well.

Any ideas what to do from here? As I said, it's likely going to work for a day or tow (maybe more) but the problems will eventually resurface.
 
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