First my spec:-
AMD64 San Diego 3700+
2x1gb corsair xms 3200 c2pt
HIS Excalibur x850xt turbo
Asus A8N-E nforce4 ultra mobo.
I built this PC just under a year ago. I noticed that in games such as WoW, during play the game would freeze then after a few seconds the screen go blank like the monitor was in standby (light would go from green to orange).
Thought perhaps maybe I had some dodgy RAM so I used memtest on it and all was fine, so thought perhaps a dodgy card. The problem rarely happened however so I thought nothing of it.
Come January this year, I downloaded a quake 4 demo. As soon as the demo started up, my computer restarted itself. From this point it would not start up most times - no display on the monitor and the bios POST going 'beep...beep...beep...' repeatedly. Sometimes however (although very rarely) I managed to get into windows and it could work for random amounts of time (worked for a whole day at one point) but eventually would just restart itself and the beeps continue. Tried a friends RAM in it and same result.
I therefore played about with the RAM and with one stick in third slot, it worked absolutely fine. However I noticed if I had a stick in the first slot, would rarely boot, beep...beep... all over again.
It worked pretty much fine like this, though during games I got the random freezes, screen going blank again, but not very often. Nothing really too annoying though.
At about Easter time, the same problem again surfaced. Would not boot, 'beep...beep...' all over again, so I removed the stick of RAM and put in the other one and it worked fine again (still though random blank screens during gameplay).
Fast forward to last week, during WoW, I got the blank screen yet again, so as usual had to reset the computer but then no display at all and 'beep...beep...'. Swapped the other stick of RAM back in, no luck. Put the other one in again and it worked fine (yet a minute earlier it wouldn't work at all).
However now I can not play WoW for a long period at all, maybe 5minutes-half hour before it's 'beep...beep...' time again. To remedy the problem I simply remove the stick of RAM then reinsert the same stick of RAM and it works again (really weird...). Now though I am too scared to play any games since the same thing will happen which will have to result in me removing then reinserting the same RAM stick (Though I got a good few hours of WoW play last night
). The beep has changed though now to a 'beep...beepbeep...beep...beepbeep'.
Two days ago I ran prime95 for 10 hours, ran fine, no errors. The computer is absolutely fine as long as I don't go into games, so I thought it could be a video problem but then there is also evidence which points to it being RAM as I outlined above.
Last night I left memtest running again, went out, got in a few hours later greeted by a screen of all sorts of pinks and greens and something about it being interrupted. Restarted the computer... 'beep...beepbeep...beep...beepbeep...'.
Today been able to play no WoW at all, 5 minutes and it's all back. However now the stick that has sat on the side for a few months as it didn't seem to work, I am now using in the computer as the one I had been using for the past few months no longer seems to randomly work
.
I am thinking that perhaps the motherboard is the culprit with some very dodgy ram slots...and recently too started getting BSODS often when in WoW such as 'page fault in non paged area'.
AMD64 San Diego 3700+
2x1gb corsair xms 3200 c2pt
HIS Excalibur x850xt turbo
Asus A8N-E nforce4 ultra mobo.
I built this PC just under a year ago. I noticed that in games such as WoW, during play the game would freeze then after a few seconds the screen go blank like the monitor was in standby (light would go from green to orange).
Thought perhaps maybe I had some dodgy RAM so I used memtest on it and all was fine, so thought perhaps a dodgy card. The problem rarely happened however so I thought nothing of it.
Come January this year, I downloaded a quake 4 demo. As soon as the demo started up, my computer restarted itself. From this point it would not start up most times - no display on the monitor and the bios POST going 'beep...beep...beep...' repeatedly. Sometimes however (although very rarely) I managed to get into windows and it could work for random amounts of time (worked for a whole day at one point) but eventually would just restart itself and the beeps continue. Tried a friends RAM in it and same result.
I therefore played about with the RAM and with one stick in third slot, it worked absolutely fine. However I noticed if I had a stick in the first slot, would rarely boot, beep...beep... all over again.
It worked pretty much fine like this, though during games I got the random freezes, screen going blank again, but not very often. Nothing really too annoying though.
At about Easter time, the same problem again surfaced. Would not boot, 'beep...beep...' all over again, so I removed the stick of RAM and put in the other one and it worked fine again (still though random blank screens during gameplay).
Fast forward to last week, during WoW, I got the blank screen yet again, so as usual had to reset the computer but then no display at all and 'beep...beep...'. Swapped the other stick of RAM back in, no luck. Put the other one in again and it worked fine (yet a minute earlier it wouldn't work at all).
However now I can not play WoW for a long period at all, maybe 5minutes-half hour before it's 'beep...beep...' time again. To remedy the problem I simply remove the stick of RAM then reinsert the same stick of RAM and it works again (really weird...). Now though I am too scared to play any games since the same thing will happen which will have to result in me removing then reinserting the same RAM stick (Though I got a good few hours of WoW play last night
). The beep has changed though now to a 'beep...beepbeep...beep...beepbeep'.Two days ago I ran prime95 for 10 hours, ran fine, no errors. The computer is absolutely fine as long as I don't go into games, so I thought it could be a video problem but then there is also evidence which points to it being RAM as I outlined above.
Last night I left memtest running again, went out, got in a few hours later greeted by a screen of all sorts of pinks and greens and something about it being interrupted. Restarted the computer... 'beep...beepbeep...beep...beepbeep...'.
Today been able to play no WoW at all, 5 minutes and it's all back. However now the stick that has sat on the side for a few months as it didn't seem to work, I am now using in the computer as the one I had been using for the past few months no longer seems to randomly work
.I am thinking that perhaps the motherboard is the culprit with some very dodgy ram slots...and recently too started getting BSODS often when in WoW such as 'page fault in non paged area'.
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