What happend to my pc?

[CatchPhrase]

After loading crysis, my pc blue screened and then it refused to boot the hard drive.
This happened before but it was thundering out and I thought that it was a power surge.
Anywho I had to reinstall windows xp and now it refuses to overclock. Could this have been caused by a bad ram stick? I tried loading memtest and it just froze the pc. I also deleted everything in the %temp% before running the memtest.

My system:
Gigabyte p35 ds3l
e2040 was overclocked to 3.00gz
2x1 gb g.skill 800mhz
8600gt

All bought in january.

 

[Rhoxed]

try 1 ram stick

what is PSU?

 

[CatchPhrase]

psu is corsair 450w

 

[nomagic]

What Rhoxed said.

Test each stick in single channel mode to find out if there is a faulty one.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

defnately a memory stick

 

[Net]

try switching out the ram and seeing if the problem is fixed

 

[Soundmanred]

What is the stock speed and cache on an E2040? I can't even find it on Intels website.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

probably a E2140... 2040 doesn't exist.

Also, crashing out in memtest is a clue.

 

[Drsignguy]

I am sure it is the E2140 = 1.60Ghz / 1MB of cache. Ram does seem like the probable cause so, process of elimination is so required. Do as they say, start with 1 stick at a time and find the culprit🙂