BSODs driving my nuts

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Okay. So I updated my ATI drivers today and actually overwrote the old ones. Foolish - I started getting blue screens. Rather than go through taking the time to remove all the drivers i reformated and reinstalled vista since it was a newish install. I put on the fresh 8.11 drivers and then I started getting the errors again. I put it down to bad drivers.

I tried to reformat the drive again with my vista disk but it bluescreens each time before I get in. I keep getting 0x00000050 blue screens and 'MEMORY MANAGEMENT' bluescreens. i ran memtest and it came up with tens of thousands of errors after a few seconds but I'm not convinced of this as I tested it a couple of days ago and it came up with no errors.

Really not sure how to get out of this hole

Better post this before I bluescreen again.:(
 
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Ok, sitting in a car park in Birmingham on business but I'll update.

I deleted the VGA drivers in device manager and then I didn't get any more BSODs and could boot the vista CDs. Reformated the hard drive then pressed the delete option. Error came up saying 'could not delete partition' but it actually did delete it despite this error!

When I get back tomorrow I'll reinstall windows without VGA drivers and run memtest and see if its still playing up..

I personally think maybe running driver cleaner screwed it up after the 8.11 ATI driver - a reformat will clear everything though right?

Any pointers?
 
First things first, go to BIOS and check your RAM voltage is at the correct value for the sticks you have in there. I presume you have 2 1gig sticks, so first try it with one, then the other, to see if there is a fault. It could just be a really unlucky coincidence.

EDIT: ok yeah that does sound more like a driver issue!

PK!
 
Ram was at correct volts - I had some faulty crucial before the corsair so I wised up to how to get it set up. It's the memory management bit that threw me but that started with the 8.11 drivers and the 'driver cleaner incident'. Hopefully the 8.12 drivers will cure it in a couple of days.
 
I may be wrong here but surely any drivers wont cause a problem with memtest bootable iso as it can be run with no hard drive attatched as its a stand alone program?

Errors on memtest at correct voltage and timings is either broken ram or motherboard.

See how you get on but fresh install wont do anything for memtest errors.
 
That was my question, are you running Memtest from a bootable ISO? IIRC there are Windows applications of memtest, but they're full of meaty marrowbone fail chunks since they don't isolate memory as well as the ISO.
 
The Halk said:
Professional dogger.
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Correct.

I was running memtest from a bootable CD like I've always done. I mean 2 days before it cleared both sticks with 0 errors. Once I deleted the VGA drivers the memory management BSODs and the other ones disappeared and I was able to wipe the HDD.

Tomorrow I will run memtest again and install windows. Very annoying as system was fine on the old ATI drivers. I just needed the new ones for GTA to work properly with shadows.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Its driving your nuts? Very nice.
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Typo :(

Ok I got home and reset the CMOS and then ran memtest again. It still runs up with tens of thousands of errors. I then ran it with some other working RAM and it still runs up with the same tens of thousands of errors.

I should say that my HDD is reformated so there's no vista install at moment.

Can anyone help with what can be causing this?
 
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Went to DFI forum and all they could suggest was checking RAM timings and voltage... which obviously worked before hand and since it is showing working RAM as having 50,000 errors it must point me to the motherboard, not that I'm an expect. I may grab another matx and work with that and see if the problems go away. I just can't see any other of my components causing this problem - this board has been nothing but problems.
 
Just to be clear, have you tried 1 stick, and not the pair? And then tried the other?

When you say you've got the right voltage, assuming it's DDR2 then the voltage should be 2.3V. Sometimes the SPD will ask for a lower voltage than this.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...B DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
If that's your memory it's rated to 2.3V.

It absolutely cannot be the ATI drivers, since memtest is failing outside of Windows though.

I'd set the volts for the memory, reboot and go back into setup, and assuming the DFI board has some kind of monitoring screen you should be able to see the voltage they are actually getting, to make sure it measures up. Sometimes there's two ways to increase voltage to a particular component, and sometimes increasing the voltage doesn't do anything.
 
On the package received it stated rated voltage is 2.2V I have tested this in bios and it is receiving this correctly.

I have tested with 1 and 2 sticks in all slots with 2 brands of sticks which I know have no errors
 
DFI forums don't seem to think it's a motherboard issue, although their opinions are mixed. I have tried different RAM, graphics cards and reflashed the bios. Changed sata cable order. Unplugged and replugged power cables. Still end up with these thousands of memory errors on any RAM.

Anyone have any more thoughts. Getting annoyed :(
 
Tried another motherboard and problem still exists, close to stripping pc and testing and selling parts
 
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