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Arakarth

Arakarth

Arakarth

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Hye folks, just managed to complete my first home build, really pleased with it and myself as you can imagine!
I've had a few problems with it though in that every now and then it'll BSOD me and then promptly reset. I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong, could it simply be a case of something not plugged in quite right?
Rig:
A8n-SLi standard
AMD Althlon 64 X2 4200+
Zalman CNPS7000B-CU Ultra-Quiet CPU Cooler
Gainward 7900 GS "golden sample" 256mb
Seasonic S12 600W
GEiL Value 2x1Gb
Western Digital 250Gb.

Also, I want to get stuff off my old hard drive so I simply plugged it into the new computer, it recognised it but i can't get into my old my documents folder. presumable this is because of the windows XP installation on the old HDD? How would I circumvent this?

Thanks guys,

Joe.
 
if your old system had a password and you made the files private then you will need to take ownership of the files.

to do this open up my computer
click tools then folder options
then go to view and scroll to use simple file sharing and untick this

then go to the documents and settings folder on the old hard drive
right click on the user you want to get the files from
click properties
go to security then click advanced
go to owner click the user of the current system
tick the box underneith (replace owner on subcontainers and objects)
click apply and it will be replacing the ownership on all the files

after this is done you should be able to access the files without being told that you donot own them

there is a way of doing thin in linux but i could never do this because i cant rember the commands :P

hope this helps

jackassuk56
 
thats ok.
only passing on what i know :D

i have had about 3 computers which have had the files made private so i did this and all became accessable :D

you could try using one stick of ram at a time and seeing if that helps

also does it happen at the same time
like running one program or after so many hours or mins???
 
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Ah right I see, got one stick in atm and it seems to be alright.
Did the change of ownership on the old HDD too, thanks a lot for that, saves so much time and effort! :)
I'll try the other stick in the morning.
 
no problem mate, micro$oft are pretty stupid having this feature, they allow you to make your files private but if someone gets those files they can easily change the owner.

leave the stick thats in there and see if you get any chrashes, if you do try the other stick and then work out which one is faulty.

it could take an hour it could take a day to have one chrash but its problem solving.

have you ran a mem test on them, you could try memtest on the ram thats in there.
jackassuk56
 
right, had both sticks in separately now, had crashes with both of them!
Help! :p
I'm about to run the torture test on Prime 95 for....well for as long as i can really!
 
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right well after googleing for about 10 mins

it seems that it could be a network port issue,
try it withoug the network card plugged in and uninstall the drivers for the network port.

run this for a little while and if it doesnt BSOD on you then buy a cheep network card and wack it in!

hope we get to the bottom of this soon

jackassuk56
 
Do you have ZoneAlarm installed? Whilst a very good product it has been known to cause BSODs and spontaneous resets. If you do, try shutting it down and see if that helps. I've got two machines that both die horribly with ZoneAlarm on them but run fine with Norton, Outpost, etc. Just a thought.
 
My network card is integrated into the mobo.
RobinH: I have avast! antivirus, the trail version I believe, not ZoneAlarm.
Ran the Prime 95 torture test for 17 hours last night, not a problem. Just played a game of UT'04, froze on me, but didnt blue screen; just had to press the reset button.

EDIT: I have the nvidia network access manager installed and the nvidia firewall as these came bundled with the mobo. Would that cause the BSODs?
 
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there have been reports of the nvidia firewall causing this problem

but its quite hard to tell what is exactly causing it

did you use the nvidia netowrk drivers that came on the disk.

it seems that nvidias firewall are buggy and can cause BSOD's

When Windows crashes with blue screen, it writes a system event 1001 and a minidump to the folder \windows\minidump. Check system event 1001 and it has the content of the blue screen

Control Panel -> Adminstrative Tools -> Event Viewer -> System -> Event 1001. Copy the content and paste it back here
 
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uninstall nvidia's firewall and use xpfirewall and see how it goes from there

you could also use zone alarm free firewall (try googleing it)


i suspect that it is caused by the nvidia firewall and if you follow the event viewer info in the previous post i can find out if it is
 
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Yes I did use the supplied Nvidia Network drivers, I'll remove them and see how it goes, managed to read something along the lines of '***_Driver' in the last BSOD, which I took to be the driver for the Asus AI Booster that also came with the mobo, so I removed that too!
Found the Event viewer, the latest 1001 log says:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 (0x000000000000000a, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffffadfe3e200f6). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini022807-01.dmp.

What program opens the .dmp files? Can't seem to find out which.

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why does it *** instead of allowing me to type N O S?
 
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could you get the last 3 or 4 errors. sorry about this im just trying to find out whats causing the problem and im having trouble rembering where its all saved to
as any problem windows has it saves it into the event viewer.

jackassuk56
 
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