K8N intermittant crash, what could be causing?

[wheel]

I've had a K8N-UAY mobo with the A64 3200+ chip for about two months
now, running winxp sp2. After about 3 weeks it started crashing about
once a day. Eventually it wouldn't boot; I found that removing one stick
of ram would get it to run (1 gb installed). I exchanged both sticks of
ram for 1g of OCZ ram, 3200 C2 OCA rev 3 performance series. It ran for
three weeks without a hitch and then today while running mundane biz
apps it had a BSOD:

Error code 1000007e
also listed as
ID: 1003
Source: System Error
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: ER_KRNLCRASH_LOG

I'm not sure what to try next. This is my first Athlon and the first
machine I've had this sort of trouble with in many years. Nothing is
o/c'd. Could it still be the ram? Video card is a BFG R6600GT nvidia.

 

[Ben Pope]

I've had a K8N-UAY mobo with the A64 3200+ chip for about two months
now, running winxp sp2. After about 3 weeks it started crashing about
once a day. Eventually it wouldn't boot; I found that removing one stick
of ram would get it to run (1 gb installed). I exchanged both sticks of
ram for 1g of OCZ ram, 3200 C2 OCA rev 3 performance series. It ran for
three weeks without a hitch and then today while running mundane biz
apps it had a BSOD:

Error code 1000007e
also listed as
ID: 1003
Source: System Error
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: ER_KRNLCRASH_LOG

I'm not sure what to try next. This is my first Athlon and the first
machine I've had this sort of trouble with in many years. Nothing is
o/c'd. Could it still be the ram? Video card is a BFG R6600GT nvidia.

PSU?

Ben

 

[wheel]

Thanks Ben I'd forgotten that...is there any way to troubleshoot this
sort of issue other than starting to swap components out?

 

[Ben Pope]

Thanks Ben I'd forgotten that...is there any way to troubleshoot this
sort of issue other than starting to swap components out?

When you removed a stick of RAM, that helped for a bit. Remove as much
as possible and see if it's better.

Also, with software like MBM5, speedfan or even the BIOS, you can get
voltage readings, they should all be ±5%.

What is your PSU and what are the currents available on +12V and +5V?

Ben

 

[Ed]

I've had a K8N-UAY mobo with the A64 3200+ chip for about two months
now, running winxp sp2. After about 3 weeks it started crashing about
once a day. Eventually it wouldn't boot; I found that removing one stick
of ram would get it to run (1 gb installed). I exchanged both sticks of
ram for 1g of OCZ ram, 3200 C2 OCA rev 3 performance series. It ran for
three weeks without a hitch and then today while running mundane biz
apps it had a BSOD:

Error code 1000007e
also listed as
ID: 1003
Source: System Error
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: ER_KRNLCRASH_LOG

I'm not sure what to try next. This is my first Athlon and the first
machine I've had this sort of trouble with in many years. Nothing is
o/c'd. Could it still be the ram? Video card is a BFG R6600GT nvidia.

Same thing happened to me a few years back with a 5 month old system,
what I did was underclock the CPU to about half it's speed so it would
eat less power, it then ran and booted as normal, got a new more
powerful PSU and that fixed it. Like Ben said, check your voltages, if
they are going up and down like crazy or just dropping more then 5% then
it's probably the PSU if everything else is in order, temps OK, good
ram, etc....

Ed

 

[wheel]

ok, thanks, I'll watch the voltage.

Same thing happened to me a few years back with a 5 month old system,
what I did was underclock the CPU to about half it's speed so it would
eat less power, it then ran and booted as normal, got a new more
powerful PSU and that fixed it. Like Ben said, check your voltages, if
they are going up and down like crazy or just dropping more then 5% then
it's probably the PSU if everything else is in order, temps OK, good
ram, etc....

Ed

 

[wheel]

It's a linkworld 350w... one hdd, one cd drive.

I never got MBM5 to work but that was on another system; might work on
this, but MBM5 is now adrift right? I mean the programmer has bailed out
on it. In any case I'll try it and will watch the voltages.

 

[Ben Pope]

It's a linkworld 350w... one hdd, one cd drive.

I don't know the make, but 350W is probably pushing your luck.

I never got MBM5 to work but that was on another system; might work on
this, but MBM5 is now adrift right? I mean the programmer has bailed out
on it. In any case I'll try it and will watch the voltages.

Well if it doesn't support your board then use something else...

Ben