BIGSHaW March 25, 2006 Share BIGSHaW Member March 25, 2006 (edited) Ok here is a deal, I have my friend's PC and I can't figure out whats wrong with it. It resets and crashes with blue screen message that says something about physical memory being dumped, or windows shut down to prevent damage to the hardware....and thats after a clean format The motherboard and CPU are brand new, also new powersupply and new harddrive. Its AMD 2200 (1.1GHz) 512 RAM. My bet would be the problem is in RAM, see one memory card is PC2700 while the other one is PC3200 could that be it??? Help me plz Im all out of ideas. Thanks Edited March 25, 2006 by BIGSHaW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage March 25, 2006 Share Guest zerodamage Guests March 25, 2006 Try one stick at a time, one without the other to see if it continues. That would be the first place I would check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGSHaW March 25, 2006 Author Share BIGSHaW Member March 25, 2006 DId that already ZD, both of them work fine ....although the whole thing is inconsistent...I mean for the past 2 hrs both of them are in there and nothing happend yet Another question, is there any kind of software out there that could test it and gimme a definate answer??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengence March 25, 2006 Share avengence Member March 25, 2006 Give memtest86 a shot... http://www.memtest86.com/ burn it to a CD or boot it from a floppy and let it run a few cycles on each ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGSHaW March 25, 2006 Author Share BIGSHaW Member March 25, 2006 thx avengence, just googled it and this prog came up. But thanks anyway testing it right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher March 25, 2006 Share Preacher Member March 25, 2006 Also if it's not fully updated (windows and drivers) there may be problems with things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo March 25, 2006 Share Cujo Member March 25, 2006 umm a 2200 doesn't work at 1.1ghz. it runs at 1.8ghz. might want to check out your bios settings. other than that it sounds like it could be a software problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReverend(c) March 25, 2006 Share TheReverend(c) Member March 25, 2006 Also write down the exact blue screen of death error code and google it. youll find out exactly what it means. Thats if the screen is on long enuff to write it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGSHaW March 25, 2006 Author Share BIGSHaW Member March 25, 2006 Thx for all ur help fellas! I ran the ramtest but after 40 mins of testing and passing 2 tests nothing came up. So I gues PC2700 and PC3200 are compatible... Cujo, care to expand on it? u sure 2200 doesn't run on 1.1Ghz cuz thats what it says right now it runs at 1.1...I left it to run during the night and it did reset again...Also I checked all the drivers...they all fine system has no errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage March 25, 2006 Share Guest zerodamage Guests March 25, 2006 Sounds like your CPU is running too fast. Here is a review with the listed speeds. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=-187&type=expert The 2200 is supposed to be 1.8 That is your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGSHaW March 25, 2006 Author Share BIGSHaW Member March 25, 2006 (edited) Hmmm its not Athlon XP Zero, its Duron...it is running at 1.2 Ghz currently which is default I guess. Today I went to the store and exchanged two RAMs for one 512Mb and so far no resets or freezes (keeps his fingers crossed) So I guess in the end it was compatibility issue between the two...however memtest86 showed no errors <hmm> Anyway I call it a day, thank all of u guyz, this place just wouldnt be the same with out all of ur support and ideas! thank you fellas! Edited March 25, 2006 by BIGSHaW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny March 26, 2006 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni March 26, 2006 one thing that I tell my friend everytime she has a problem with her dell is... "it can only be solved with a match and oil... olive, vegetable... gas doesn't matter it'll all work" Try downloading a memtest program yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Cool March 26, 2006 Share Mr.Cool Member March 26, 2006 the blue screen with the physical memory....i get that too <--- me being not much of a comp expert, i just press the reset button everytime i gets it (i dont get it a lot) actually, everytime something is wrong i just press the reset button and if it gets worse, i just do a clean reformat not sure if this will help, but this usually happens after my comp is on a for a very long time.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny March 26, 2006 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni March 26, 2006 http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1247 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGSHaW March 26, 2006 Author Share BIGSHaW Member March 26, 2006 So far 15 hrs w/o any resets or errors...I say it was the memory Thanks again u all! <hugs> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher March 27, 2006 Share Preacher Member March 27, 2006 That'll be $200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo March 27, 2006 Share Cujo Member March 27, 2006 ok a duron 2200 is supposed to be running at 1.8ghz. if you have a 2200 duron running at 1.1 then your bios settings are way off. zero, at 1.1 why is his cpu running too fast?? don't you mean too slow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher March 27, 2006 Share Preacher Member March 27, 2006 yeah, I didn't read that through the first time. May want to check the bios and see if it's set to run at 100/133/166 I believe the Duron chips run at 133 (266) so it it's not at it's proper clock speed then you may need to reset the bios selection to the proper clock. you might want to run this little program to verify: http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-132.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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