Hello Brian, Saturday, December 6, 2008, 1:26:25 PM, you wrote:
> The problem was the RAM, sort of. When I first saw the memory-related > BSODs, I had tested the heck out of the ram (2 1 GB sticks of Geil DDR2 800) > using memtest86 and they passed with flying colors, except for a couple of > times when memtest would crash. The issue was that the RAM was incompatible > with the mobo (Gigabyte DS3H with 780G chipset). And here's the kicker - it > was listed on the manufacturer's RAM compatibility list. > I had decided that it was either the mobo or RAM and after flipping a coin > decided to buy new RAM. I was reading through the Newegg reviews of the > mobo, saw someone else had RAM compatibility issues and that Gigabyte tech > support had suggested this stuff: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134582 > Works great now, and so far (knock on wood) all those issues have gone away. Nice, but it's pretty sad it was listed compatible but wasn't. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
