My husband and I bought a bare bones computer kit (2,actually-- the other one is working fine)
and have been running up against 2 diff bsod errors.
system specs:
Asus M2N68-AM SE2 GeForce 7025 socket AM2+ MB
Seagate 750GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
Corsair DR2 800MHz (2x2048MB)
EVGA GeForce9500GT 1 GB
AMD Phenom X4 9600 4MB 95W
CPU 500W ATX power supply
The first error I encountered was 0x00000050.
Symptoms: Computer stopped working, flashed bsod, couldn't reboot. It would appear to start, lights would come on, but screen would remain black and wouldn't get that reassuring little beep. If I turned off computer and waited 20 min or so, then it would start up again and work for a short while before getting bsod again.
I tried reseating everything, making sure plugs were plugged. I pulled out one of the RAM then reinstalled windows xp after reformatting drive. Everything seemed to be working great!
To test and see if it was the RAM, I pulled out the working RAM and replaced it with the other one. I booted up and immediately got BSOD with different error message--the 0x00000024 one. It would restart, start me on the screen saying it encountered an error and which mode did I want to start in. No matter what I selected, I would get the bsod error.
I put in the 'good' RAM. No change. I put in the other RAM so now both were in. No change.
I put in the Windows XP disk and selected repair. It is now running chkdsk /r.
My question is: did putting in the 'bad' RAM cause the disk error? It's a little late now to pull out the second RAM, but I'm worried that I'll still end up with an issue because I have both in there. After running this, should I run it again with the 'good' RAM only? or is there a different issue entirely going on that I should check?
and have been running up against 2 diff bsod errors.
system specs:
Asus M2N68-AM SE2 GeForce 7025 socket AM2+ MB
Seagate 750GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
Corsair DR2 800MHz (2x2048MB)
EVGA GeForce9500GT 1 GB
AMD Phenom X4 9600 4MB 95W
CPU 500W ATX power supply
The first error I encountered was 0x00000050.
Symptoms: Computer stopped working, flashed bsod, couldn't reboot. It would appear to start, lights would come on, but screen would remain black and wouldn't get that reassuring little beep. If I turned off computer and waited 20 min or so, then it would start up again and work for a short while before getting bsod again.
I tried reseating everything, making sure plugs were plugged. I pulled out one of the RAM then reinstalled windows xp after reformatting drive. Everything seemed to be working great!
To test and see if it was the RAM, I pulled out the working RAM and replaced it with the other one. I booted up and immediately got BSOD with different error message--the 0x00000024 one. It would restart, start me on the screen saying it encountered an error and which mode did I want to start in. No matter what I selected, I would get the bsod error.
I put in the 'good' RAM. No change. I put in the other RAM so now both were in. No change.
I put in the Windows XP disk and selected repair. It is now running chkdsk /r.
My question is: did putting in the 'bad' RAM cause the disk error? It's a little late now to pull out the second RAM, but I'm worried that I'll still end up with an issue because I have both in there. After running this, should I run it again with the 'good' RAM only? or is there a different issue entirely going on that I should check?