OK can you read this and see if it makes sense.
Took delivery on Friday of a new Ultima OC 9800GTX SLI 4 Gig and I have to say what a NICE bit of kit.
Unpacked it and started to install Vista Business 64 bit, which kept falling over at the end of the installation. So I re flashed the Bios on the EVGA nForce 790 Ultra to version P4 and set the mother board to it’s defaults. Vista then installed but was plagued by occasional blue screens and error messages such as super fetch and IE stopping. It also refused to upgrade to SP1 and I had a digital locker upgrade to Vista Ultimate that also refused to install.
Memory, I decided it just has to be . So I ran the basic vista memory checker that said no problems found. I re ran it and it said there were problems. Hmmmmmm
Removed all but one stick and with that I could install SP1. Ok so one of the 3 left has to be dud so I ran MemTest86 on each of the sticks and all passed
Reinstalled all the sticks and Vista ran better but still not 100% as it still had the occasional blue screen and errors but now the crysis benchmarks would run with only one crash.
It’s now been left running at home doing 5 passes of the extended Vista memory check. So I am trying to narrow it down to one stick or a maybe a faulty MB.
Can anybody suggest anything else to try? I would much rather RMA 1 stick of DDR3 than the whole system.
Cheers
Took delivery on Friday of a new Ultima OC 9800GTX SLI 4 Gig and I have to say what a NICE bit of kit.
Unpacked it and started to install Vista Business 64 bit, which kept falling over at the end of the installation. So I re flashed the Bios on the EVGA nForce 790 Ultra to version P4 and set the mother board to it’s defaults. Vista then installed but was plagued by occasional blue screens and error messages such as super fetch and IE stopping. It also refused to upgrade to SP1 and I had a digital locker upgrade to Vista Ultimate that also refused to install.
Memory, I decided it just has to be . So I ran the basic vista memory checker that said no problems found. I re ran it and it said there were problems. Hmmmmmm
Removed all but one stick and with that I could install SP1. Ok so one of the 3 left has to be dud so I ran MemTest86 on each of the sticks and all passed
Reinstalled all the sticks and Vista ran better but still not 100% as it still had the occasional blue screen and errors but now the crysis benchmarks would run with only one crash.It’s now been left running at home doing 5 passes of the extended Vista memory check. So I am trying to narrow it down to one stick or a maybe a faulty MB.
Can anybody suggest anything else to try? I would much rather RMA 1 stick of DDR3 than the whole system.
Cheers