Make a memtest boot disk or USB flash & let it run overnight. On Jan 30, 2012 3:24 PM, "Winterlight" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > >
