I don't remember off hand (I am at the office and the PC is at home). I called the wife but she it at the beach with the kids. I will find out later this afternoon and post the info.
-Gary Bobby Heid said the following on 8/5/2005 2:39 PM: >Also, monitor the temps. What does the blue screen say? > >Bobby > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry McGregor >Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 3:11 PM >To: The Hardware List >Subject: Re: [H] New PC locks up and blue screens all the time > > >Go to memtest.org and download the iso, and run a full memtest >overnight. > >I have had a lot of problems with OCZ memory recently, and blue screens >on modern hardware are almost always hardware/memory related. > > > Harry > > >On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 13:59 -0500, Gary Udstrand wrote: > > >>What a crapper. I built this PC to prevent this exact kind of issue. :-( >> >>In particular I just recently built the following Shuttle PC : >> >>1) Shuttle SNP25 barebone >>2) AMD64 3700+ San Diego >>3) 2G of OCZ 184pin DDR400 Unbufferred with Copper Heatspreader >>4) Sapphire Raedon X800XL 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card >>5) 74G Raptor SATA150 >>6) 2x250G Seagate Barracudas SATA150. >> >>I have installed XP Pro and the suite of Office products. Since I use >>this for image editing I have Photoshop, Raw Shooter Essentials, >>BreezeBrowser Pro, Capture One, Monaco Optix XR Pro and Bibble. For my >>browser I have FireFox 1.06. >> >>I have no idea what is causing the issue, nor do I have a clue where to >>start. I thought it might be a heat issue but as far as I can tell the >>CPU temp is inline with what it is supposed to be (45-50 C) and the past >>few days have been drier and cooler than the previous three weeks. The >>house is air conditioned and the office is especially cold. The PC >>seemed fine for the first couple+ weeks and just recently started this >>behavior. I have not installed anything new or additional (I did just >>calibrate the monitor....) prior to this instability. >> >>The first time it started to happen I took the cover off the PC and >>thought the Raptor drive may be a little hot. I proceeded to move it >>into a better ventilated bay and following that it seemed to work OK, >>for a day and a 1/2. Now it is doing the same crap again. >> >>It seems a stretch that the monitor profile would cause such an issue, >>or even that an overheated drive would cause the PC to lock up and/or >>blue screen. Any ideas? Where should I start? >> >>* >>*-- >>-Gary >> >>
