Hello,
Ok, so I have been experiencing some bizarre problems of late. Basically I am setting up a small gaming cafe in my home town, and we have 20 custom build gaming machines. Specs are as follows:
Core i5 950
Asus P7P55D Mobo (with bios flashed to latest version)
4GB Geil Black Dragon Dual Channel DDR3 1600mhz RAM (running at 1333mhz)
nVidia 460GTX gfx card
500Gb Segate HD
550watt Thermaltake PSU
Now I captured an image of a fully installed PC, including all the games and applications I want to use in the cafe with Windows Deployment Services for Windows Server 2008 R2. Used sysprep etc and then deployed the image to all the machines over the network (yes, this ate my network bandwidth for about 12hrs).
Now on to the problem, I get all the machines fully installed and running before I leave at night, and then I come in the next morning and boot them, and get random BSOD's and windows error's all over the place. So in my infinite wisdom I decided it could be a RAM issue and got memtest86+ on a bootable USB and started to run it on a few machines. Now as expected some of them failed. This is the weird part though, for example: PC1 failed memtest with 150k plus errors, so I thought dodgy RAM. Tried a cmos clear, and reset then tested it again and no errors this time...weird. Exactly the same settings in the bios as before, having adjusted them to suit the preferred timings suggested by geil (1333mhz @ 8-8-8-28) and the fact that the i5 950 doesn't support 1600mhz speed as far as I have read.
So I stopped memtest, and let the machine boot into Windows 7 x64 Pro with my fully installed image deployed onto it, and it was fine, played some games, no crashes etc. Then I decided to try the cmos clear on some of the others that were failing boot and randomly BSOD'n with various errors, and after that they all seemed to boot no problem.
Again went home last night, came in this morning and getting random BSOD's, some flashing so quick I cant even read the error. The BSOD messages are ranging from IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, and a few others I can’t even read because the restart too quickly.
I do feel it is a RAM issue, due to the random passing and failing of memtest, but I just wondered if anyone else had any issues like this before? Or if anyone had any other suggestions as to what might be causing these issues.
Thanks
Al
Ok, so I have been experiencing some bizarre problems of late. Basically I am setting up a small gaming cafe in my home town, and we have 20 custom build gaming machines. Specs are as follows:
Core i5 950
Asus P7P55D Mobo (with bios flashed to latest version)
4GB Geil Black Dragon Dual Channel DDR3 1600mhz RAM (running at 1333mhz)
nVidia 460GTX gfx card
500Gb Segate HD
550watt Thermaltake PSU
Now I captured an image of a fully installed PC, including all the games and applications I want to use in the cafe with Windows Deployment Services for Windows Server 2008 R2. Used sysprep etc and then deployed the image to all the machines over the network (yes, this ate my network bandwidth for about 12hrs).
Now on to the problem, I get all the machines fully installed and running before I leave at night, and then I come in the next morning and boot them, and get random BSOD's and windows error's all over the place. So in my infinite wisdom I decided it could be a RAM issue and got memtest86+ on a bootable USB and started to run it on a few machines. Now as expected some of them failed. This is the weird part though, for example: PC1 failed memtest with 150k plus errors, so I thought dodgy RAM. Tried a cmos clear, and reset then tested it again and no errors this time...weird. Exactly the same settings in the bios as before, having adjusted them to suit the preferred timings suggested by geil (1333mhz @ 8-8-8-28) and the fact that the i5 950 doesn't support 1600mhz speed as far as I have read.
So I stopped memtest, and let the machine boot into Windows 7 x64 Pro with my fully installed image deployed onto it, and it was fine, played some games, no crashes etc. Then I decided to try the cmos clear on some of the others that were failing boot and randomly BSOD'n with various errors, and after that they all seemed to boot no problem.
Again went home last night, came in this morning and getting random BSOD's, some flashing so quick I cant even read the error. The BSOD messages are ranging from IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, and a few others I can’t even read because the restart too quickly.
I do feel it is a RAM issue, due to the random passing and failing of memtest, but I just wondered if anyone else had any issues like this before? Or if anyone had any other suggestions as to what might be causing these issues.
Thanks
Al
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