Vista keeps on crashing...

yantorsen · 6 Oct 2007 at 00:42

ByteJuggler said:
I feel for you mate. However, to me it's telling that the problems started after installing drivers. Can you maybe re-install and hold off on installing any mobo or vid-card specific drivers? Just run some stress tests etc with default drivers, see how long the machine will stay working etc? It will give a clearer indication whether there's some causal relationship between the drivers and your problems, or whether that was just a fluke...

yeah I'll have a go tomorow, thanks for the reply.

yantorsen · 6 Oct 2007 at 18:11

the intel chipset identification utility is saying my mobo is G33?!, why, it should be P35??!?!?!

and btw I ran a Prime95 torture test for an hour with no issues or errors.

yantorsen · 6 Oct 2007 at 22:49

I ran the Prime95 "blend" test for an hour with no issues or errors.

And I can't install the gfx card drivers, because the drivers for the VGA PCI-E slot aren't there, so it won't recognise the hardware.

yantorsen · 6 Oct 2007 at 23:40

stickroad said:
Hey yantorsen, have you got MSN?

I haven't really followed the thread but if your willing to run threw with me your problems, might be able to give you a hand.

hi stickroad. yeah I have got msn, [email protected]

I won't be on tonight though. But I probly will tomorow night.

I seem to have managed to install the gpu drivers, but now I'm getting an error when i try and start the game. But I'm just trying to reinstall the game.

Yantorsen (my real names Josh btw)

yantorsen · 7 Oct 2007 at 00:30

yantorsen · 7 Oct 2007 at 14:04

is there any particualr order you should install drivers in?

yantorsen · 8 Oct 2007 at 17:33

ByteJuggler said:
Not normally, but with your system anything is possible

The video drivers you're installing, are they the ones off the Cd or have you downloaded the latest and greates from ATI/AMD? In any event I'd suggets getting the latest from the web if you can.

my gfx card didn't come with any drivers, and I thought as my card is an Nvidia that AMD/Ati drivers wouldn't work?

I've tryed everything, seems like I'm just gonna have to put it in my attick, and forget I've just wasted nearly £1000.

yantorsen · 8 Oct 2007 at 17:56

Cheers mate.

I've got loads of revision to do for an exam tomorow and my guitar lesson, so I doubt I will be on tonight, though I might be later. But I'm pretty sure I'll be on tomorow night.

Josh

yantorsen · 11 Oct 2007 at 18:02

ive ran memtest, for 5 and a half hours, no errors. and prime95 blend torture test for about an hour with no errors.

what next?!

Yanto.

yantorsen · 11 Oct 2007 at 18:40

ran the wd diagnostic test and got the following...

also thought I'd post a pic of the inside of my case, so you can see if i connected anything wrongly etc.

yantorsen · 14 Oct 2007 at 14:14

I could not get and futuremark things to work

I've ran the wd hdd test and it passed, and i've passed memtest86.

I've ran all the tests on orthos and prime95 foro a few hours each, and had no erros, until i did this test....

does this mean that the hdd is faulty or the ram?

Thanks
Yanto.

yantorsen · 16 Oct 2007 at 18:47

my vista install seems to be stable now, and I have ran every test I know of.

but when I install games or any apps, it keeps saying that the hdd has become corrupted, and error's reading the disk.

If anyone can help or offer some advise or something else to try that'd be great.

yanto

yantorsen · 16 Oct 2007 at 20:13

Ice On Fire said:
After reading this thread...I am starting to think your Hard Drive is at fault.

Add me to MSN if you want: [email protected]

cheers. I'll ad you. I don''t have any other hdd's. my 28 days to return faulty goods runs out on thursday, so i have 1 day to decide what's wrong

yantorsen · 17 Oct 2007 at 16:27

ByteJuggler said:
BTW van, where are you approximately located?

Also, what PSU are you using?

located in coventry, and I'm using a corsair hx 520

i've got it to pass orthos and the hdd test now, but im still getting errors, and it won't et me run any games.

yantorsen · 17 Oct 2007 at 16:39

Ice On Fire said:
What errors are you getting? And what happens when you try to run a game?

random erros really, random programs closing, corrupted files, dll errors, you name it, but i havn't had a bsod for a while.

also i noticed orthos didn't utilize all four core similtaneously? but only two? not sure if that's correct or not.

And I have tryed 4 gmas with it, firstly medieval total war 2, which installed but wouldn't play and had an error saying something about dx9 but i cnt remember it exactly. Then i tryed JTF which installed but had a corrupted error. AOE 3 wouldn't install because it isn't compatible with vista 64-bit it said. and then i tryed the UT3 demo but it wouldn't run after I installed it.

yantorsen · 17 Oct 2007 at 16:45

Ice On Fire said:
Hmm, rather interesting. I would say either Hard Drive (Not very likley now) Or memory really..:S

but would'nt memtest have picked it up if it was memory?

yantorsen · 17 Oct 2007 at 16:52

Durzel said:
Did you let it actually do a full pass in Memtest? Sounds like you did if you ran it for over an hour, but just thought I'd check.

A lot of what you've reported contradicts eachother really. An ORTHOS error on "Blend" could be the CPU or the memory, but the random corruption makes it seem more likely that it's the memory than the CPU. The WD Diagnostics error points to the hard drive having problems, but a knackered HD wouldn't mess ORTHOS up. Very puzzling.

PAGE_FAULT BSODs obviously point to memory.

Have you got a spare generic IDE or SATA cable you can swap around your HD with? Sometimes broken/faulty cables can cause all sorts of corruption problems.

yep ive already tryed changing the sata cables, and ive try using an old ide dvd drive but it didnt help.

and i ran memtest for 6 hours.

yantorsen · 17 Oct 2007 at 17:54

right I'm running that now, it's running on all four cores.

And my idle temps are about 29 degrees in the bios.

yantorsen · 17 Oct 2007 at 18:54

Right orthos been running for over an hour now 100% on all four cores, and with no errors, still running now.

yantorsen · 18 Oct 2007 at 16:45

ByteJuggler said:
OK, so it's apparently not the CPU. I know your box has also passed several cycles of Memtest, so it's unlikely to be the RAM. That essentially, leaves motherboard and graphics card (and PSU, possibly... as well as HDD, though unlikely) as remaining culprits. Can you beg, borrow or steal (ok not steal) another known working vid card from somewhere to test if the rig is more stable with it? If so then that would suggest it's your vid card. If not, the search continues.

the only spare cards I have are AGP ones. And none of my mates know anything about computers and are unlikely to let me take there machines apart.

I wasn't sure bout the gpu, becasue I had medieval total war playing on xp pro on this system for a bit then the install became corrupted.