Problems

Soldato
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Well, I've been having problems for the past few days and I'm hoping someone can help me out!

I switched on the PC the other night and my system wouldn't boot. It powered on for a few seconds then powered off again....and kept doing this until I switched it off. I turned off the power at the PSU for several minutes and it then booted.

Upon booting into windows, I was greeted with a blue screen. This then happened several times after this, so my thought was memory. I ran memtest86 and it failed instantly. So I thought that prity much confirmed it, however, I rebooted again and tried the test again. Only this time it passed. Several times.

Completely stumped, I booted again into windows and it worked fine. I tried the memtest for windows, and that passed as well. I tried prime95 on blend, that passed. I updated the BIOS to the latest I could find. I thought the problem was over.

Fast forward to this morning and it blue screened again. I tried memtest86 and again, this passed several times. The only thing I can think of is when I run CPUz it says my memory timings are the following:

CAS: 5
RAS to CAS: 5
RAS PreCharge: 5
Cycle Time: 15

Now the default for my memory is suppost to be 4-4-4-12. Could this be the problem?

Everything at stock:

E6600 Conroe
Gigabyte DS4 (F6 BIOS)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400C4
X1900XT
 
Thanks for the reply. I have a Tagan Easycon 580w. The voltages look fine as do the temps. I'm not sure what could be causing it. :/
 
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