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
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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