Urgent system help

[jimbos]

Hi Guys

I have had my new rig for about a month now, and its been running like a trooper...until yesterday.

I turned it on and got a Bios Rom Checksum Error Message saying something about AWDflash.exe. Not having a clue what this is, i rebooted and it went to windows. Fine i thought, maybe a glitch, so i played all afternoon on various games, no problems. went out for 2 hours after tea and returned to find my system had hanged. I rebooted it but now if i either leave the machine on for a long time, idling, or open any kind of game or hard application, it will hang, then BSOD and i cant veiw the message as the system reboots a second after the BSOD. I tried the event viewer but it said only a system error. (listed below)

BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BF9F3F0F BCP3 : B5EA24D4
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1

I tried system restoring as i thought these BSOD's would be driver related, and since that did nothing i have formatted and re-installed XP. I then DL'd a few things last night and left them DL'ing overnight, only to wake up this mjorning with a message to say my system has recovered from a system error, and then when i went to investigate, another BSOD.

Can anyone help? Is this pointing to a faulty hardware or should i look at flashing the bios?

thanks, jim

 

[jimbos]

I have installed an Asus PC probe from my MB CD and it has come up with 3 major warnings

1.2VHT is at 1.49v

DDR2 Term is at 1.17v

Memory is at 2.35v

do these have any bearing on my problem?

 

[Edward01]

everyones comp seems to be going wrong today, hope its not contagious.

ermm, try taking the battery out and resetting the bios. re-install the OS and dont install anything, install prime95 (or orthos or what ever it is called.) and see if you can get it to hang, if it doesn't slowly install drivers, graphics, mobo etc and test it inbetween. If not start swapping out hardware.