New hardware is constantly crashing windows

[brett]

Hi all,

I have recently purchased a new AMD 64-bit processor, and it (or something
else) is giving me constant troubles with windows 2000 (SP4) constantly
crashing.

I have the following hardware:

AMD 3200 64bit processor
Gigabyte GA- K8VM800M motherboard
2x 512Mb DDR PC-3200
GeForce FX5200EP video card.


The interesting thing is that win2k crashes (blue screen) when I only have
one memory card in the motherboard. This happens regardless of the memory
slot, or which of the two memory cards I use.
I usually run the board with both memory card in use and it crashes
(unreliably) every hour or so. This usually happens when I am using the
internet, but it sometimes if I have no connection to the web, but I am
doing something intensive like a compilation. I've tried installing XP-64bit
and it does that same thing with that OS too.

This is a most frustrating situation, and it sounds like a memory problem
but I dont know why it works better with both memory cards in use?? Are
there any memory testing programs that I can use to determine and pinpoint
the fault? Or does anyone else have any ideas?

I am running the memory bus speed at 200MHz (what I think it should be).
There is no option with this BIOS to reduce that any further.

Thanks in advance,
Brett.

 

[Matthew Senn]

Try this:

http://www.memtest86.com/

 

[Wookie]

Try MEMTEST ... if errors, then up you rmemory voltage wee bit and see if
that helps clear up the problem.

 

[Brett]

Yep, memtest found errors and I've replaced the memory and its working like
it should have always. Phey...

Thanks for the help guys!

Brett.