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[AboutToHaveStrok]

Well, First .. I love this site. Not to start my whine., I finally got the guts to build my own box after 10 years of rebuilding my "not 1 piece left is DELL Dell" My new box is a MSI 865 pe neo 2-LS with a 2.6 pentium with HT 800fsb I am now on my third video card (thought that was the problem) it is a gforce FX 5700 ultra My speakers wouldnt work with the onboard sound so I kept my creative Gamer card . I have 2 maxtor drives 80+30gb and I am running W2kPRO with ALL of the updates.. Also I have ALL of the latest drivers for EVERYTHING to include the board Bios. 512mb of MATCHED RAM DDR400 running in dual channel mode. well with everything running in default ..not pushed not tweaked just VANILLA..well This machine is FASSTTT but crashes if I open more than 2 programs or run ANY Game for more than 60 seconds oh I also have a 350 watt PWR supply and 2 cd/dvd drives. I almost forgot to mention after a wek the onboard LAN just freakin Dissappeared from the hardware device menue like it never existed..the only reason I am on now is that I put in my old lan card. Any Ideas????????????????

 

[riser]

This sounds like a common problem with HT (Hyper Threading).
Disable it in your BIOS under your CPU information (something similiar) and test your machine out.
You said it crashes after you open 2 programs up, this sounds a lot like hyper threading is getting screwed up.

Riser

 

[sparky853]

350W PSU is also on the small side. You may want to switch to a good quality 400W PSU or higher.

Spec:
Intel P4 2.4B
MSI 645E Max-U Mobo
512MB DDR333
GF3 ti200 64MB
SB Live 5.1
WD 60GB (Storage)
Maxtor 6GB (System)
Maxtor 120GB
LG 24x24x32 CDR
WIN2K PRo SP4

 

[Yoshua]

Another thing to try is moving the memory, or setting in BIOS, so that it's running in single channel mode rather than dual channel. I fixed one stability problem with my machine doing this.

Even when you have identical modules, it's not a guarantee this feature will work.

Another thing you could try if you really want to keep it in dual channel mode is to try underclocking the memory. Set the timings to CL 2.5-3.0 and 8-3-3, then put the clock speed of the memory at 333 Mhz. If that's stable, just bump up the memory clock speed by as small an amount as possible. If it crashes, go back a step.