Morning,
I don't normally stay up this late unless I've got a problem with my computer... oh wait, I do.
I'll try to keep this short, but here goes.
This evening I finished putting together a computer for my Dad. System is as follows: i5 2500K, Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P, 16GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz 1.5V, EVGA GTX 460 SC, 64GB Crucial M4 SSD, 2 Samsung F3 1TB HDD's, Samsung optical drive, Silverstone ST60-FP modular power supply, Corsair 650D.
The problem I am currently experiencing is continuous rebooting. Press on button > everything fires up for 2-3 seconds > reboot ...
Everything worked fine the first few times I booted up. Then I changed the memory speed in the bios using the XMP. When I rebooted the system a message appeared saying there had been a boot error due to overclocking of system components. Reset all the bios settings and all was well. Then I updated the bios to the latest version, F5. That went smoothly. Thought I'd try the XMP again with the new bios, but now the system continually reboots. Cleared CMOS, but no improvement.
I tested the system with each memory module in each of the four dimm slots and one stick kept crashing the system. I'm hoping this is the extent of the problem and that there isn't something else
Only problem now is that I'll probably have to rma all four sticks of ram as they were purchased as a set.
Does anyone know of other hardware faults associated with these symptoms? I'm hoping the stick was dodgy from the start. Do you think the motherboard could have damaged it when I applied the XMP?
Thanks in advance,
Ben.
I don't normally stay up this late unless I've got a problem with my computer... oh wait, I do.
I'll try to keep this short, but here goes.
This evening I finished putting together a computer for my Dad. System is as follows: i5 2500K, Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P, 16GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz 1.5V, EVGA GTX 460 SC, 64GB Crucial M4 SSD, 2 Samsung F3 1TB HDD's, Samsung optical drive, Silverstone ST60-FP modular power supply, Corsair 650D.
The problem I am currently experiencing is continuous rebooting. Press on button > everything fires up for 2-3 seconds > reboot ...
Everything worked fine the first few times I booted up. Then I changed the memory speed in the bios using the XMP. When I rebooted the system a message appeared saying there had been a boot error due to overclocking of system components. Reset all the bios settings and all was well. Then I updated the bios to the latest version, F5. That went smoothly. Thought I'd try the XMP again with the new bios, but now the system continually reboots. Cleared CMOS, but no improvement.
I tested the system with each memory module in each of the four dimm slots and one stick kept crashing the system. I'm hoping this is the extent of the problem and that there isn't something else

Does anyone know of other hardware faults associated with these symptoms? I'm hoping the stick was dodgy from the start. Do you think the motherboard could have damaged it when I applied the XMP?
Thanks in advance,
Ben.