lots of bugs....HELP!

RexMundiRexMundi
edited June 2004 in Hardware
Hey, i having real problems get a stable verion of windows to run on my machine (Well as stable as windows gets...). I am etting several issues when using windows:

1) At unexpected times, windows will lock up, requiring a cold restart.
2) Error messages such as IRQ NOT EQUAL OR LESS and SSTEM PAGE FAULT.

So, i originally though it to be the RAM, so i completed an overnight RAM test that did not produce any errors. The Ram is Definatly compatable to.

So Now im stuck for ideas, can some one help?

Rex

Machine Specs:
AMD Athlon 3200+
DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B Motherboard
2 x 512mb Cousair matched pair RAM
Shapire Radeon 9600XT 256mb
Q-Tec 550w PSU
1 x 120gb Maxtor IDE
2 x 200gb Maxtor SATA - Silcon 3114

Using on the SATA drives a Boot.

Comments

  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Ok, few questions as we need some more informaion.

    1. What are your temps like?
    2. Do you have the machine overclocked?
    3. You have a Q-TEC PSU which are absolutly rubbish. They are not 550W as advertised they are more like 300w-350w. This may be causing the lockups.
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    If its not the ram then 95% chance its that PSU. See if you can borrow a buddies antec or similar high quality psu to test out. If that solves the problem you know what you gotta replace.
  • RexMundiRexMundi
    edited June 2004
    All temps are low, around 40 degrees
    No overclocking yet..

    would the power supply cause the blue screens aswell? If the QTEC PSU is as you described 'crap' that could possible explain it then, as i have quite a bi of stuff feeding from it.

    Are there any good 'recomendations' for how much should be using the PSU?
  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    If you do a search on Google for QTEC PSU problems you will find lots of people with problems. I personally have had one kill a ABIT KD7 and an XP2200+. If you are pulling too much power from the PSU (which with a QTEC you probally are) The machine will crap out all the time.

    I can recommend the Antec range of PSU's, they are a little more expensive but well worth it. I have the Antec True-Power 550W, and its as stable as hell and I have alot more stuff running off it that you have on yours.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Definitely sounds like PSU to me. Those Q-tec sound good on the surface but are infact very poor PSU's.

    I use the Tagan 480w with a ton of drives, an Athlon 64 setup and a power hungry 9800xt. Solid as a brick voltages.

    Review here :)
  • RexMundiRexMundi
    edited June 2004
    looks like a new PSU then!

    cheers for the help

    Rex
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited June 2004
    Ditto on crap Qtec psu's, mine blew up a motherboard & cpu too then had the good grace to kill itself before i did. I took it apart to have a look at the insides and the caps had leaked all over the place. Still if you buy a cheap psu then you've got to expect problems.

    Can you tell me what bios you are using because I have found that even the official DFI bioses are very flakey. I couldn't get may board stable or overclock it till I had flashed the bios to the beta 1/31 bios. Then it overclocked like a champ, 250+fsb :) Although I have to say you're problems do sound psu or memory related in the first instance, has your corsair memory got winbond chips on it per chance?
  • RexMundiRexMundi
    edited June 2004
    im using the LP NFII ULTRA B PCB Revision A, bios.
    Does value select chips sound right?
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited June 2004
    Hi Rex,

    I was looking for the actual bios number itself rather than the actual type, usually found on the post screen.

    With regards to the ram, again I was looking for the actual name of the chips on the ram itself eg winbond ch-5 or Hynix etc. However as its the value select then I doubt it'll be Winbond. The reason for my asking was that I found the my lan party board would only run stable & overclock well once I'd tightened the ram timings, which tends to be the opposite of what normally happens in my experience. This however, I'm informed by others more experienced than myself, is a perculiarity of the Lan party & winbond bh-5 combination.

    Eitherway I'd get a decent power supply in their first before flashing the bios & playing with the bios settings.

    Regards

    Jim
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