Hi all!
I'll start off with my system specification:
Athlon FX55
2Gb (4x 512Mb) Corsair XMS3200 Pro 2 2 2 5
Asus A8N32 SLi Deluxe (Bios 1205)
HIS 512Mb X1900XT (Omega 6.7 Catalysts)
Tagan 580W PSU
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
74Gb Raptor 10,000rpm 16Mb Cache
200Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
Windows XP Professional (SP2)
Up until now, my system has been working fine and has never been overclocked in any way. Today, I turned the PC on but it would hang before it gets into Windows, just leaving the little blue bar beneath scrolling across. The activity lights on the are also frozen at this point.
I've run memtest86 and it produced in the region of 700+ errors on test 6 before I get 'Unexpected Interrupt - Halt'.
I have now tried each of the memory sticks (4x 512Mb) in motherboard slots 1-4. Motherboard slots one and two now give no activity lights or any sign of life at all, yet slots three and four do.
Also each stick has been tested on it's own in slot three. This allows me to boot memtest86 3.2 off the cd and for the tests to run up until test 6 where each of the sticks errors out with between 622-627 errors.
So it looks like the first two slots on the motherboard have gone the way of the Dodo.
I've even tried slackening off the timings to 3 3 3 6, but the errors still persist.
Just tried booting into Windows with sticks in slot three and four but to no avail, as it just sits with the blue bar scrolling across and the lights on the memory frozen up.
Shall I resign myself to the fact that now is the time to upgrade the processor, memory and motherboard to a Core2Duo setup? The cost would only be marginally more expensive to buying the older DDR and socket 949 based motherboard.
Sorry for the long post. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
I'll start off with my system specification:
Athlon FX55
2Gb (4x 512Mb) Corsair XMS3200 Pro 2 2 2 5
Asus A8N32 SLi Deluxe (Bios 1205)
HIS 512Mb X1900XT (Omega 6.7 Catalysts)
Tagan 580W PSU
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
74Gb Raptor 10,000rpm 16Mb Cache
200Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
Windows XP Professional (SP2)
Up until now, my system has been working fine and has never been overclocked in any way. Today, I turned the PC on but it would hang before it gets into Windows, just leaving the little blue bar beneath scrolling across. The activity lights on the are also frozen at this point.
I've run memtest86 and it produced in the region of 700+ errors on test 6 before I get 'Unexpected Interrupt - Halt'.
I have now tried each of the memory sticks (4x 512Mb) in motherboard slots 1-4. Motherboard slots one and two now give no activity lights or any sign of life at all, yet slots three and four do.
Also each stick has been tested on it's own in slot three. This allows me to boot memtest86 3.2 off the cd and for the tests to run up until test 6 where each of the sticks errors out with between 622-627 errors.
So it looks like the first two slots on the motherboard have gone the way of the Dodo.
I've even tried slackening off the timings to 3 3 3 6, but the errors still persist.
Just tried booting into Windows with sticks in slot three and four but to no avail, as it just sits with the blue bar scrolling across and the lights on the memory frozen up.
Shall I resign myself to the fact that now is the time to upgrade the processor, memory and motherboard to a Core2Duo setup? The cost would only be marginally more expensive to buying the older DDR and socket 949 based motherboard.
Sorry for the long post. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
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