Hi, new to the forum.
I've just upgraded my old athlon xp Vista system w/ the following components- msi neo2 fr mobo, intel c2d e4600, 2x1gb kingston value ram 800mhz, gigabyte 8800gt 512mb, and antec earthwatts 430w. At first I decided to just swap the parts in and use my existing Vista partition and drive, a sata hitachi 160gb, but it was randomly blue screening for me. I use a separate partition for os install and another for files. I decided to reformat my vista partition and use a fresh installation, but towards the end of the 'completing install' section, I got another blue screen. I reformatted/reinstalled this time w/o a blue screen until I got to the 'new user setup' section. I'm able to login, but I can't seem to run installs for programs or download vista updates w/o running into a BSOD. I can go as little as 1 minute and as long as 15 minutes w/o a BSOD, depending on whether or not I'm running anything intensive. I tried to download memtest and the computer blue screened. The blue screens randomly occur the same way they did when I was using my old vista install.
I suspected it would be the ram, so I purchased another set of 2x1gb kingston sticks, but I still receive the same errors. No particular message shows up; sometime's it's irq not less or equal, sometimes it's page fault, etc. For the heck of it, I tried a different video card, 6800gs, and still got the same error.
Would you say this is still a ram problem? Can this be caused by the mobo? CPU?
I've just upgraded my old athlon xp Vista system w/ the following components- msi neo2 fr mobo, intel c2d e4600, 2x1gb kingston value ram 800mhz, gigabyte 8800gt 512mb, and antec earthwatts 430w. At first I decided to just swap the parts in and use my existing Vista partition and drive, a sata hitachi 160gb, but it was randomly blue screening for me. I use a separate partition for os install and another for files. I decided to reformat my vista partition and use a fresh installation, but towards the end of the 'completing install' section, I got another blue screen. I reformatted/reinstalled this time w/o a blue screen until I got to the 'new user setup' section. I'm able to login, but I can't seem to run installs for programs or download vista updates w/o running into a BSOD. I can go as little as 1 minute and as long as 15 minutes w/o a BSOD, depending on whether or not I'm running anything intensive. I tried to download memtest and the computer blue screened. The blue screens randomly occur the same way they did when I was using my old vista install.
I suspected it would be the ram, so I purchased another set of 2x1gb kingston sticks, but I still receive the same errors. No particular message shows up; sometime's it's irq not less or equal, sometimes it's page fault, etc. For the heck of it, I tried a different video card, 6800gs, and still got the same error.
Would you say this is still a ram problem? Can this be caused by the mobo? CPU?