Strange... Odd... Help please...

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I upgraded my machine about 5 months ago to the following spec.

Asus PK5-E/Wifi
Intel Q6600 @ 2.4 - Freezer Pro 7
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz
Geforce 6800 256mb
STD 160GB IDE
Sony DVD-RW
550w PSU

Been working fine for 5 months straight.

The following random problems seem to be occuring.

I do leave machine running through the night about twice a week, came in one morning and moved the mouse after using Ai-Nap and System error appeared staing "The endpoint format is invalid. So on this i clicked my only option "OK". The system restarted and then would not go into windows, just keep restarting, i could see that just before it started (about 2 nano seconds) a blue screen was trying to appear. Safe mode would do the same, last known configuration same again, tried most standard possibilities. Repair from console, repair from setup.

But still no luck.

HDD?? My thought, so i stuck in another 160 IDE HDD (i have 6 of the same model) formatted and installed Windows XP Home, after about 5 mins of having it installed i would get all the same problems again, plus more like... windows would load and some random drivers would not load, like graphics one boot then mouse next boot and so on. HDD?? no not again so i tried low level format on the same drive and same again, same random problems. Again some additional ones. Bear in mind fresh install, std drivers required like chipset, sound, network etc, nothing out of the ordinary. Have evern cancelled any software. Although nothing i use new on the last 5 months, so strange???

So once again 3rd HDD still no luck.

One last option before i look towards the MB.. Ram

So i took the second stick out and wallah, although its only been this morning that i have processed the ram.

Thinking to myself, well that was easy, i thought well if its a stick of ram then i will try the second stick on its own in the first slot... wollah... works fine ran a few benchmarks sandra, prime95 and everest. Both work fine alone??

So stick them both back in, still working now, no problems yet, although i noticed that the load time into windows was slightly slower. But seems to return good benchmarks.

Now is this going to come back?? or did the ram not connect correctly?? didn't think it was possible... anyone have any ideas, anything i can install to test and stress the machine or is prime one of the best.

The machine seems to be cool enough, and as i said the errors seem to be random, when the machine was first turn't on, on for a few hours.

Just very very odd, and i dont want to start installing proggies again and find that it goes all **** up again. As no recovery option seems to sort it, and i cannot get into windows.

I have also run chkdsk in cmd in windows and i finds the usual bitmap errors, so i do a fix and then there is nothing. Although i have read up and it seems this is an issue with Windows XP.

If you have managaed to read through all my post and haven't got bored then i really do appreciate all your help, as this has totall ruined my weekend.

Thanks guys and gal

Cheers
 
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I remember things like this used to happen occasionally with my Asus P5B-V board. I never actually narrowed the problems down as I replaced it in favour of an SLi compatible board. But one thing I do remember is getting nothing but hell from that Asus software. Especially AiNap. Also the CPU temprature software from Asus (can't remember the name) used to say my CPU was running at 128 degrees celsius and immediately shut down the PC. I would also get frequent unexplained errors from the Asus software before it shut my PC down instantly. Now that I have replaced the board and uninstalled everything to do with Asus, the problem has vanished.

Can you live without the Asus software? If so, try removing it (apart from the drivers of course) and see if the problem still exists.
 
Yeah i have done a fresh in stall on 3 different HDD with no 3rd party software install not even office. Still happened.

Well i have been running it all day with both mem chips back in and no problems at all untill 22:30 ******.

It just decied to reboot itself flashed blue screen for a nanosecond and then kept cycling boot, with a nano second blue screen, that i cannot read.

I weren't even running anything it was just idle??

So i have taken out the second memory chip again, this time its the opposite one, will see if its still on in the morning.

So could this narrow it down to the board going faulty or anything else i should try.

It seems to be doing it when its in duel channel mode??

Thanks for your advice steve, know of any other low powering software out there?

Cheers

Please fully star out any swearing
 
If you can, do a memory/ram test and harddrive test thing in DOS, best thing for that is Hirens Bootcd google it and burn to disc and run the tests and see if any things come up.
Kinda sounds like RAM, but i sure as hell aint a expert.

~Slash
 
Cheers Slashiem,

Will give it a try tonight.

Seems to have done the same with that one chip in, just goes into the rebooting recycle mode.

Annoying ? :confused:
 
Have you tried clearing your Bios settings?

One other thing mate, just so you dont get a ban or anything, your sig doesn't comply to OcUK's rules, might want to drop it a line.
 
Will try that one tonight Mirage, will that make a difference as i haven't changed the settings in there at all??

Thanks for the little nudge, although i thought you could have upto 4 lines of txt?
 
Aye, try defaults. It could possibly be a setting that is causing unstability, especially if both ram modules work fine on their own.
BTW, quite strange about your sig, I could see that you evidently had a 4 line sig but for some reason the last words of line 1 and 3 were being pushed onto a row of they own! Think it's an inconsistancy between browsers.
 
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Aye, try defaults. It could possibly be a setting that is causing unstability, especially if both ram modules work fine on their own.
BTW, quite strange about your sig, I could see that you evidently had a 4 line sig but for some reason the last words of line 1 and 3 were being pushed onto a row of they own! Think it's an inconsistancy between browsers.
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Yeah I saw that too, it seems that the fault is there when I use Both modules and 1 module, i now have 1 more module to test, but it seems that i have to leave in on idling before it faults. It seems ok but then goes off on one.

Will try the last chip by itself tonight, then defaults.

What about windows, will i need to reinstall when i set bios to defaults??

By the way its inconsistency not inconsistancy, dont worry, i do the same lol

Cheers for your input so far :)
 
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first things first if you havent already, turn on BSOD so you can see what its reporting.
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How do i do this,

There was one of the times it crashed and did actually come up with the blue screens, then it come up with about 10 different one dumping to disk 1...2...3...4...5... etc???

How do i turn it on??

Thanks
 
reset bios defaults - and dont put your overclock back on. Have you run memtest86+? If you download ultimate boot cd and boot from the CD, then look for memtest86+ and leave it running till it completes atleast 7 passes (will take a very long time BTW so leave it going over night).
 
fobose said:
reset bios defaults - and dont put your overclock back on. Have you run memtest86+? If you download ultimate boot cd and boot from the CD, then look for memtest86+ and leave it running till it completes atleast 7 passes (will take a very long time BTW so leave it going over night).
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But then what id this fauls, dows it prove that its the memory or could it still be the MB??

Also for some reason i have to activate windows again, it seems since its crashed its lost the fact that i have activated it already??
 
If it fails it could be a faulty stick of memory (you might wanna try each stick individually so you can rule out 1 particular stick). Have you removed your overclock yet? It would be the first thing that I would do.
 
fobose said:
If it fails it could be a faulty stick of memory (you might wanna try each stick individually so you can rule out 1 particular stick). Have you removed your overclock yet? It would be the first thing that I would do.
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I actually removed the over clock a while ago, probably about 2 months ago just forgot when i wrote the topic.

I have done one stick and it only took 1h45mins?? is that right? about 15 mins a pass

You said over night, i did test it on default settings and it passed 7 passes on 10 tests.
 
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The temps are always ok around 35 idle on average on each core. MB again seems to be ok. But it seems to be doing it when windows is running for 3-4 hours with no processes running, just idleing. And i have run prime95 only for about 1 hour and the temps go up to about 48 c.
 
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fobose said:
If it fails it could be a faulty stick of memory (you might wanna try each stick individually so you can rule out 1 particular stick). Have you removed your overclock yet? It would be the first thing that I would do.
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Right i have ran both sticks seperately and both pass, on 7+ passes and it ran 10 tests 0 errors found.

Im baffled, it works now for 3-4 hours then reboots, well we shall see in 3-4 hours.. . . wish me luck.

Then when it does what new error will i get this time??
 
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