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>"Mike" <dy73ui39aHe5@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Of course! . I am only using Sata drives.
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sorry... crossed messages. :-(((
but to answer the question anyway... the answer is still yes
I run a duel boot system myself. XP and Susie on the other.
and I use Norton Ghost for imaging drives. used it for years.
Ok.. back to your problem...
Elimination time!. If your getting regular Bsods and memtest86 checks your
memory out as being okay then I would normally run the m/c with the minimum
cards installed to run the system. You have to eliminate stuff, then put them
back in one at a time.
What makes you suspect your video card?, do you not have another just to prove a
point or maybe borrow one.
If I start getting Bsods this is what I do.
1. check out memory using memtest86 maybe also
ease off memory timings to see if that resolves bsods.
I may also increase vcore and DDR voltages 1 notch to see if that helps, can
always put them back down if they don't.
2. I would load a known good ghost image just to eliminate bad drivers or
anything to do with current OS install. May not be possible for you however.
3: If all else fails, I would check all voltages, change P/S maybe, and if
necessary reduce system down to bare requirements needed to run until its
hopefully running stable. Its certainly easier when hardly anything is plugged
in.
As an example.. a few months ago I built a gaming system for my son, it would
boot up fine but occasionally the damm thing would just suddenly lock up solid.
I checked out all the usual stuff...voltages, memory, bios setting etc.
It proved to be something very simple to fix although it took 3 or 4 days of
pulling hair out before I managed to resolve it.
During the many tests I did, I discovered it was only playing up when the cd
drives were connected, he had purchased a pioneer 106 DVD burner and a Liteon
cd reader. It was the Liteon that was causing the problems, I found that WinXP
was stable if I disabled the dma on that cd-drive, when I re-enabled the DMA
windows started locking up again... but a real pig to find the cause.
That cd-drive simply did not like having its dma enabled for some reason,
probably a little faulty, although he's still using it today.
Sorry for rambling on.... but I'm sure you get the idea. Hope yours is as easy
to fix but not so hard to find.
Regards
Mike
I am starting to blame a video card... I wonder if there is a
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