Vista keeps on crashing...

well the mobo drivers that came with the board, didn't work proply to start with. but I got them working later, despite not actually changing anything to make them work.
 
I'm gessin I'll just have to sell my system then... and buy some cheap system with the money I get from selling my computer that doesn't even work... probly nothing.
 
after it's done a memtest, it won't display any results. not sure why.

I've just formatted the hdd, and am gonna try and reinstall vista,

I don't have a legit cop of xp.
 
ram is not being oc'ed, and in my bios for some reason it doesn't seem to allow you to change the RAM voltage from "Auto". But if some one could explain how to do it then I'd be greatful. I havn't got any other ddr2 ram to test it with, and I can't test my ddr2 ram, on another board, because my only other system is ddr1.

But I'll try and have a play around with the RAM, tomorow night, as I'm busy tonight. Does anyone know what voltage my ram should be running at?

thanks for all ** help guys, I'll keep you updated.
 
I've set the ram to 1.9v, and it seems to have stopped crashing, and is generally more stable.

I installed vista again with no problems. But I installed the mobo drivers, and now it wont boot into windows. Could it be becasue the mobo drivers supplied (on the CD) are 32-bit, and they need to be 64-bit?

Yantorsen.
 
havin problems again, I had to reinstall vista becasue I'd cocked up the other one when i tryed to put 32-bit mobo drivers on it. And it keeps havinbg errors and cancelling the installation.
 
right, I've stopped the bios redeting the ram volts, but I still can't get it to boot into windows. I've tryed every possible option I can think of as far as the ram is concerned. And I've reformated and reinstalled vista atleast 5 times tonight.

I think I'm gonna send it all back, and either order the same again (maybe slightly different) or just get a pre-made, which means sacraficing performance, as I'm on a very tight budget.
 
ByteJuggler said:
Well, does your system pass (several hours of) MemTest then or not?

It is possible you've got a duff memory stick, a duff motherboard, or both. (Amongst other things, like dodgy PSU... :) ) But the likelihood seems RAM to me still, unless and until we can eliminate the from the equation.

FWIW, I've had pretty good results with the straight P35_DS4 & P35DS3P boards. On one build I had to up the voltage to 2.1 after which everything was rock stable. Can't speak directly about the P35C_DS3R unfortunately, but it's probably similar to the other Gigabyte P35 boards...
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well I've pretty much covered all memory combinations, slots, timings, voltages, etc... And it ran memtest for about an hour and a half, no problems found.
 
ByteJuggler said:
Well, if one of the parts is in fact defective, then it's not fit for purpose and you have then have a legal right to take the defective part back. What you need to try and establish is what is actually wrong.
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yeah I can still take things back if there faulty. I have just tryed installing xp pro, it all worked fine, got all the drivers installed, but then after I had installed the gfx card drivers, and rebooted, it wouldn't load windows becasue a file had become corrupted.
 
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