MB: Asus P5GD1 Pro
CPU: Intel Pentium IV 530 3.0 GHz
RAM: 2 x 256 MB DDR (dual channel)
HD: Seagate barracuda 120 GB
PSU: Revoltec Star Serie Chromus 450 W
The system had been running faultlessly for about a year until it suddenly cold rebooted while I was playing a 3D game.
I tried to boot immediately with no success as it always hanged when starting windows or linux (sometimes during kernel loading with lots of page request errors, sometimes during the init scripts with lots of segfaults).
Afterwards I let it cool down for about 10 minutes though I still couldn't boot.
On the following day I tried to boot it again and I was able to login both to windows and linux, despite some erratic behaviour like segfaults, windows tasks being suddenly shutdown or lots of CRC errors decompressing large files. The system would then become increasingly unstable and lock.
Then I decided to run memtest86+ and got something like 8000 errors on the very first seconds but the error rate drastically decreased when I used an external fan to provide extra cooling.
I also found that the mobo wouldn't even POST successfully after trying to boot with only one of the ddr dimms.
I can't test the ram on other machine right now nor try a new dimm, so how can I tell whether it's a mobo or ram issue?
PS1: I tottaly discard a PSU problem as it is quite a good and stable one.
PS2: I'm running the BIOS with default values hence no OC.
PS3: I dindn't change any driver/bios settings thereby it must be a hardware issue.
PS4: I've already cleaned the ram contacts and slots from dust.
CPU: Intel Pentium IV 530 3.0 GHz
RAM: 2 x 256 MB DDR (dual channel)
HD: Seagate barracuda 120 GB
PSU: Revoltec Star Serie Chromus 450 W
The system had been running faultlessly for about a year until it suddenly cold rebooted while I was playing a 3D game.
I tried to boot immediately with no success as it always hanged when starting windows or linux (sometimes during kernel loading with lots of page request errors, sometimes during the init scripts with lots of segfaults).
Afterwards I let it cool down for about 10 minutes though I still couldn't boot.
On the following day I tried to boot it again and I was able to login both to windows and linux, despite some erratic behaviour like segfaults, windows tasks being suddenly shutdown or lots of CRC errors decompressing large files. The system would then become increasingly unstable and lock.
Then I decided to run memtest86+ and got something like 8000 errors on the very first seconds but the error rate drastically decreased when I used an external fan to provide extra cooling.
I also found that the mobo wouldn't even POST successfully after trying to boot with only one of the ddr dimms.
I can't test the ram on other machine right now nor try a new dimm, so how can I tell whether it's a mobo or ram issue?
PS1: I tottaly discard a PSU problem as it is quite a good and stable one.
PS2: I'm running the BIOS with default values hence no OC.
PS3: I dindn't change any driver/bios settings thereby it must be a hardware issue.
PS4: I've already cleaned the ram contacts and slots from dust.
Facebook
Twitter