I have a problem with my workstation.
Q4 9650 over clocked to 3450 on a Asus Maximum II Formula board
16 GB 4X4 of Patriot DDR2
Two Sapphire 5770 hooked up for crossfire one running three monitors
and one sitting idling. ... and I haven't played a game for more then
5 miniutes since I set this up!
Intel SSD and Windows 7 Pro fully patched.
I have been running stable for a year. then a last week I have a
spontaneous reboot and shortly thereafter a blue screen lock. Right
away I think RAM, but a series of failures occur that point to the
video card. I start getting video artifacts followed by freeze ups,
blue screens, locks, and the <video card driver has failed and
recovered warnings>. There is no heat inside the well ventilated
computer. It is not even running warm. All the fans are working
correctly. I suspect the video card so last night I remove the card
used for the three monitors and all the crossfire ribbon cables
and now I am running off the second video card with the latest video drivers.
Everything is good until about an hour ago when I had a video
artifact quickly followed by a lock. It can't be both video cards.
It must be the RAM. I pull out three of four 4 meg Dimms and now have
one installed. I thought I would try to find the bad one by a process
of elimination but that could take a couple of weeks to run each one
for a couple of days, so I am wondering how good Memtest is ... does
it really work...and what version I should use and how should I go
about testing each of the Dimms.
I have high end quality components. My board was made with
overclocking in mind. But is there anyway my overclocking could of
brought this on? Thanks
