prime fails, superpi fails, some programs getting errors...

[mrbios]

basicly when i flashed the bios on my motherboard the otherday i had a problem booting again which has no been solved

now i have another problem, since then ive had programs (winamp, wmp, firefox in particular) randomly crashing out with errors, i ran superpi and prime95 and they both get errors pretty quickly

ive ran memtest to test the ram and that came out fine, ive tried reverting back to an older bios version (310, on a dfi nf4 ultra-d) but that hasnt sorted it either, could errors in prime be caused by software problems? corrupted windows files causing my computer to be unstable? if not then im going to assume my motherboard is the fault

 

[p0rks0da]

How long did you let memtest run for? I have had several sets of RAM fail in the past (Ballistix, bleh) that would only show errors in memtest after 3-4 hours of continuous looping. Some programs would error very quickly in wondows though, like IE would encounter errors and games would crash etc.. all well within the time it took Memtest to detect anything.

I would assume that corrupt windows files could cause similar problems but i can't really think of anything to advise for that except running scandisk.

Sorry i can't be of any more help, but thats my experience with memtest.

 

[mrbios]

well i only did 5 passes on a couple of different tests (i think test5 is the main one people use isnt it?) but i could leave it running while i sleep to see what results it gets from 7 or so hours of testing

within about 30seconds of opening CSS a minute ago the game crashed out, earlier on i couldnt even click submit to messages on here without firefox crashing

i have a motherboard i can use sat on the floor behind me (epox 9npa+) but im going to try everything else before resorting to changing mobo

EDIT: just realised the 310 bios wasnt the one i was on before, ive now flashed to the 623-1 bios, i THINK this is the exact one i was on before these problems occured, time to test

 

[Foehammer2003]

RAM always seems to cause this kind of instability in my limited experience, running memtest i have only ever had errors on test 8, not sure about test 5, best ot let it run overnight like you said. Maybe slacken your RAM timings a little, or the command rate to 2T see if its any more stable then. I found IE was the first and most unstable program when my RAM was playing up.

 

[mrbios]

the ram is Geil value 2gb (2x1gb), running at 3, 4, 4 ,8 already, ill get 2T a go then im going to try it with just 1 stick in

 

[mrbios]

im currently up at 2T, prime95 has been running longer than it normally does, normally errored after about 10 seconds, this time its even passed the first test lol

i think i know what it must be then, the bottom stick i had to take out for the stages of things to do when trying to get my motherboard working again, the bottom stick must have been damaged during removal from the pc

EDIT: that or something in the bios thats set to "auto" is actually running the timings too tightly

EDIT2: trying each stick individually at 1T now and seeing how it does in prime

EDIT3: well it appears that neither stick likes running at 1T anymore, yet they both run flawlessly at 2T :/

 

[xirokx]

basicly when i flashed the bios on my motherboard the otherday i had a problem booting again which has no been solved

after flashing a bios if it doesnt restart successfully then you will have all these errors...

I believe the problem lies with your bios and not your hardware..

ive ran memtest to test the ram and that came out fine

it would because you never had problems with your RAM before....

I think you should try reformatting and see what happens...

P.S. I dont see how it can be your hardware if all was working fine before..

 

[Foehammer2003]

I dont think its the hardware at fault, more like a slightly flaky BIOS which is being troublesome with his hardware. There was nothing wrong with his windows installation before the BIOS flash, so only presume its the BIOS that at fault, even though he has rolled the version back