Hey guys,
I've recently purchased and put together a computer of my own (specs located at the bottom of the page) for mainly gaming purposes. After constructing it I installed Windows XP (Home Edition), updated it and installed previous programs that I have on the former DELL laptop I used to use. After making the two almost identical, I began to test everything, making sure it worked and all. Everything was fine until I started to receive BSOD's. The first one didn't strike me as important, since its pretty common to receive one once and a while. But, as I kept on it the BSOD's just kept appearing more often. It wasn't only one BSOD error message either, they were all different. So, at first I ran memtest86+ which came back with no errors. Then, I checked my hard drive for errors, allowing it to run through the night. When I came back the next morning and tried to see if the BSOD's were rid of, I quickly found out that they were still there. The same goes with defragmentation and other various methods that I've tried from reading up on solutions. So far, nothing has worked. I've reformatted 3 times now and it's starting to get irritating. I just can't find a solution. Since memtest86+ has reported back to me with no errors, I'm ruling out the fact that I've gotten any dead sticks of RAM or a bad motherboard. So, out of process of elimination the only thing that mainly deals with data transfer other than the mobo and RAM is the hard drive. I'm planning on returning my current hard drive and asking for another (same exact thing) because it's the only thing I can think of doing. Does anyone else have any ideas on what I could do to possibly fix this pestering problem?
Also, high-end games that I've tried to play (ex. Fallout 3) have caused BSOD's much more than lower-end games such as counter-strike 1.6. Counter-strike always works, yet out of every 10 tries of running Fallout 3, only 2 or 3 succeed in running the game, then eventually the game freezes at some point and I get the BSOD then.
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!
Some of the notorious BSOD's I get are:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
and the list continues....
My Custom Build
Core 2 Quad Q9550
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
4 GB G.Skill RAM
ATI HD Radeon 4850
500GB Western Digital HD
I've recently purchased and put together a computer of my own (specs located at the bottom of the page) for mainly gaming purposes. After constructing it I installed Windows XP (Home Edition), updated it and installed previous programs that I have on the former DELL laptop I used to use. After making the two almost identical, I began to test everything, making sure it worked and all. Everything was fine until I started to receive BSOD's. The first one didn't strike me as important, since its pretty common to receive one once and a while. But, as I kept on it the BSOD's just kept appearing more often. It wasn't only one BSOD error message either, they were all different. So, at first I ran memtest86+ which came back with no errors. Then, I checked my hard drive for errors, allowing it to run through the night. When I came back the next morning and tried to see if the BSOD's were rid of, I quickly found out that they were still there. The same goes with defragmentation and other various methods that I've tried from reading up on solutions. So far, nothing has worked. I've reformatted 3 times now and it's starting to get irritating. I just can't find a solution. Since memtest86+ has reported back to me with no errors, I'm ruling out the fact that I've gotten any dead sticks of RAM or a bad motherboard. So, out of process of elimination the only thing that mainly deals with data transfer other than the mobo and RAM is the hard drive. I'm planning on returning my current hard drive and asking for another (same exact thing) because it's the only thing I can think of doing. Does anyone else have any ideas on what I could do to possibly fix this pestering problem?
Also, high-end games that I've tried to play (ex. Fallout 3) have caused BSOD's much more than lower-end games such as counter-strike 1.6. Counter-strike always works, yet out of every 10 tries of running Fallout 3, only 2 or 3 succeed in running the game, then eventually the game freezes at some point and I get the BSOD then.
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!
Some of the notorious BSOD's I get are:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
and the list continues....
My Custom Build
Core 2 Quad Q9550
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
4 GB G.Skill RAM
ATI HD Radeon 4850
500GB Western Digital HD
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