Help me with unknown crashing reasons

EvoFire · Post by **EvoFire** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:01 am

I've built a semi new computer with parts I've gathered abroad and consists of the following.

ASUS A8V-E SE
Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester
2x 512 MB Corsair XMS DDR400
ASUS 8800GS
Audigy2 (vanilla)
Seasonic Super Tornado 300W

Windows is COMPLETELY fine, and same with Prime95, but Firefox and Internet Explorer would just repeatedly and randomly crash. BIOS is the newest version, running XP Pro SP3. Video card is new, and ram was pulled from my working Athlon XP rig. Help anyone?

PS: Does anyone think its my PSU? But this rig shouldn't use more than 100W when browsing the net.

PPS: I was doing some minor OCing, and it seems like the ram didn't like it.... Doing more tests right now....

Matija · Post by **Matija** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:04 am

Define "crash".

EvoFire · Post by **EvoFire** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:26 am

crash as in firefox or internet explorer shuts down without notice.

I seem to have found out the problem. The XMS I have doesn't like being clocked anything above 200Mhz, 400DDR

mkk · Post by **mkk** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:46 pm

Yeah, applications suddenly disappearing or games crashing straight to desktop is quite often contributable to memory instability.

bonestonne · Post by **bonestonne** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:52 pm

if you've overclocked your RAM any, or the RAM is faster than the MB standard, run Memtest x86 for a while, say, 12 hours or so.

the RAM might have errors.

xan_user · Post by **xan_user** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:53 pm

bonestonne wrote:if you've overclocked your RAM any, or the RAM is faster than the MB standard, run Memtest x86 for a while, say, 12 hours or so.

the RAM might have errors.

+1 on that tip.