System Failure (restart)

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Mofrait

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Built this and it has never run without having a system failure resulting in a restart.

I tested the old power supply, and the 5v connector failed. SO, I bought a new one and figured that this would be the fix to the issue.. and no. Any suggestions on what I might look for next? I'm lost.
 
I might be missing something, but what exactly have you built? (Please list components and their architecture format etc.)

When do you get the error? Are there any error codes?

Also, you definite mean restart rather than shutdown right?

Thanks,

Mike
 
NeloForster said:
I might be missing something, but what exactly have you built? (Please list components and their architecture format etc.)

When do you get the error? Are there any error codes?

Also, you definite mean restart rather than shutdown right?

Thanks,

Mike
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I have put together the following:

MSI K9N Platinum nForce 570 Ultra Athlon 64/Athlon FX SktAM2 DDR2 ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 3800+ Socket AM2 (89W)

Geforce 6800Xtreme 256mb DDR3 (XFX/Nvidia)PCI express and SLI ready

Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W Power Supply

Corsair VS1GBKIT667D2 1GB Kit DDR2-667 PC2-5300 Value Select Memory(two 512 sticks)

Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer

Thanks a lot!

Mofrait
 
Like NeloForster said, what error(s) are you getting?

Another couple of things:

-What's your CPU temp?
-Have you run [google]Memtest 86[/google] for a few hours?
 
Big B said:
Like NeloForster said, what error(s) are you getting?

Another couple of things:

-What's your CPU temp?
-Have you run [google]Memtest 86[/google] for a few hours?
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About 38C,

and No on memtest lol, I should, have a link for me to follow again?
 
Big B said:
Memtest86. Slap it on a floppy or burn an ISO for a bootable CD, let it run for a few hours.
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Thanks bro, I'll run this, I actually don't recieve
the error messege every time, and am not 100%
sure on what the number was, so I'll wait till I
see it again and repost. First my fail safe reboors
(at the crash) then once I log back into windows
xp it says I had a fatal/critical system error.

Mofrait
 
I'm looking at the event log on the problem unit, and it shows errors/info/and warnings as always.

The errors are as follows:
System Error, Category (102), Event 1003

Don't know how these might help, but what the hell....
Error codes:
1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 805d0993
parameter3 ba112c98, parameter4 00000000
 
[link=http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic26439.html]Here[/link] is exactly the same problem as yours with solution.... Check it out!
 
Karanislove said:
[link=http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic26439.html]Here[/link] is exactly the same problem as yours with solution.... Check it out!
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I ran Memtest while I was at work tonight.. came home and wow... 25 passes, 1167 errors.

It gives me the failing address of
000199a1b88
000199a1b98
000199a1ba8
000199a1bb8
000199a1bc8
000199a1bd8

and badram= 0x04084788 and many variations of this number. How might I be able to tell which stick of ram is faulty? It gives me the addresses, but I'm not sure as to where to track it.

And I'll be sure to grab the service pack after, but clearly I have a memory issue.

Thanks!
 
Could be both theoretically... But here's a diag for you -

Remove one stick of RAM and use the PC as you normally would. If you encounter the same problems, then the piece of RAM you left in is guilty. If you get no errors then the RAM you left in is fine, and the RAM you took out is guilty... Guilty of crimes against technology! *bang bang bang*

Good luck :)

Mike
 
NeloForster said:
Could be both theoretically... But here's a diag for you -

Remove one stick of RAM and use the PC as you normally would. If you encounter the same problems, then the piece of RAM you left in is guilty. If you get no errors then the RAM you left in is fine, and the RAM you took out is guilty... Guilty of crimes against technology! *bang bang bang*

Good luck :)

Mike
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Yeah this was the notion I was getting last night ;).

In the end, the culprit will die.

Thanks everyone for your help, it should work normally after this. (fingers crossed)
 
Mike said:
Could be both theoretically... But here's a diag for you -

Remove one stick of RAM and use the PC as you normally would. If you encounter the same problems, then the piece of RAM you left in is guilty. If you get no errors then the RAM you left in is fine, and the RAM you took out is guilty... Guilty of crimes against technology! *bang bang bang*
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Another fast way is just run memory test with each single RAM.. n that will give u surity as well....
 
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