some big problems

asillars

asillars

asillars

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Hi all, i've been having problems with new build since buying it last month. After 3 graphics cards i finally got one that didnt overheat within a minute. Performed a memtest and memory was fine. Anyway the blue screen of deaths started with a memory management message after a few days. I tested the memory and it came back with a few errors. So i moved the RAM into different slots, tested it again and everything was fine... for a few days. Now this morning i started getting the blue screens again with bad pool header message. Tested the memory again and there are hundreds of errors.

Where is this steming from? get the feeling there is something seriously wrong with some of the hardware.
 
Northbridge too hot. Doesnt that control memory?

This was possibly why i had blue screens and memory problems with running memtest a few days ago.

Is your PC overclocked?
Post all your hardware and bios settings.
 
cpu - phenom 2 550BE
motherboard - asus m4a77td PRO
Hard drive - spinpoint f3 500gb
psu - 500w modxstream
windows 7
4gb geil value ddr3 10666 1333mhz

all bios is as standard, have not touched it other than the boot from cd/HD option. No overclocking, wouldnt even know how to.

How can you tell if it is the motherboard or psu? if one item damages the others, can these be claimed/RMA'd. Everything i bought was from either here and one other site.
 
If you check your DIMMs you should see a sticker on the side showing you the timings and voltage required. From within your BIOS you should be able to set the timings manually instead of leaving them at 'auto' and also set the DRAM voltage manually. Sounds complicated but it's not ;)
 
well i tried this. seemed to work ok for the hour before i left for work. got home tonight and it lasted 10 minutes before the bsod with a system something something message instead of the others i got.

any other suggestions?
 
you can test them one at a time, doesnt sound like this is the issue tho- does sound like something is 'killing' the ram. might be a bit off kilter but when you installed the ram did you earth/short yourself to get rid of static electricity, or better still did you use an anti-static wrist strap. i remember a pc engineer at a time telling me that static electricity damage to ram wont always surface immediately.

sorry only throwing this into the mix as i see you also had problems with graphics card
 
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i did my best to make sure i was earthed. didnt use straps though. the graphics card problem i dont think has any relation to this. i had 2 dodgy ones with the same problem from the same manufacturer. when i got one from another manufacturer it worked fine.

this problem though is really stressing me out cause i am totally lost with it and im not that technical with computers.
 
ok testing done over the weekend. results are as follows

RAM stick 1 of 2 - slots 1-4 no errors. Yay!!
RAM stick 2 of 2 - slot 1 36 errors in tests 2,3 and 4
slot 2 2 errors in test 6
slot 3 2 errors in test 4
slot 4 no errors

So why are there different errors in the different slots? and why when i memtest them 4 weeks ago when they were new, did it not show any errors? do they take time to show up? Do i RMA now?
 
What is your case cooling like ? Got any pics ? Temps ?

Seems weird to me that it took 3 GFX cards before one would run cool in your system.
 
cooling seems fine, the graphics card issue i believe was a manufacturing fault where the heatsink was never in full contact with the gpu. The first two were HIS (probably a faulty batch) then i gave up and tried the sapphire which worked fine straight away and still does. CPU temps are perfect also.
 
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