Stability Problems

EnisadaEnisada Edmonton Member
edited July 2003 in Hardware
One of my systems I just built was consistantly crashing when playing games. I reinstaled windows and had it several times tell be it could not locate a file off the CD. Sometime retry would work other times it wouldn't. I swapped the RAM around in the slots till I found a comination that worked and I was able to make it through the Windows XP Pro installation without any problems. Installed the latest motherboard drivers and the latest Cat 3.6's into the system. Installed a game and during the install the system rebooted. Tried again it installed but during the intro movie it would crash to the desktop. The game was Midnight Club 2. I'm going to try some other games in the system and see what happens. Let me know that you think....

My specs are:

AMD 3000+
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Was 1.5GB of Corsair but had to run 1.0GB to install windows. The other 512 is still not in the system.
Had a Audigy 2 in there but took it out.
Using a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Ver 1.04 w/ Latest BIOS Version
Using a Promise Controllor Card with latest BIOS Version and latest windows xp drivers. Noticed that the latest BIOS version and driver version do not match that may be my problem there....
Cooling is a Volcano 11. I have seven case fans in the case.
RAID 0 WD1200JB
Liteon 52x24x52 Burner
Liteon 16x DVD
Plextor PX-504A DVD Burner
Power is an Antec TruePower 550Watt

Help me out let me get this rig up and gaming agian.....
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Comments

  • AgeekAgeek
    edited July 2003
    Have you run a CD-ROM drive laser lense cleaner CD in the CD-ROM drive??? Dirty drive laser lenses and\or fingerprint smudged or scratched CDs give results that can lead to unexpected things.

    Still could be RAM, but think given what is happening I would clean the CDs and use a CD cleaner CD in drive to start with.
  • EnisadaEnisada Edmonton Member
    edited July 2003
    I believe I may have fixed it. i relaxed my memory timings to CAS 2.5 instead of CAS 2. Seems to run alright have only played with it for 15 minutes since I changed it however seem to be ok. The CD is fine and the drive I'm using is brand new. The thing is I changed the RAM around until I got it to install. if the three sticks were in there then it would not install and it would error....
  • AMD-FanAMD-Fan Virginia Beach
    edited July 2003
    You have corsair memory. What are the specs on it? It sounds
    like a software problem or cd problem to me. I have had the
    same problem loading software and finally got it in by trying
    different methods. Like using the run feature in the start icon
    or going into my computer and loading from there. I think your
    memory is probably good.
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