New PC randomly rebooting!!!

[venomize]

A friend recently helped me build a new PC, and it's having a super
nasty, irritating problem where it randomly reboots itself while I'm
in the middle of something important. I'm a bit green when it comes
to hardware stuff, so I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot
the problem. I'll post the system specs below, as well as the error
I'm getting:

Specs:

Windows XP Professional
Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 GHz @ 1066 / 4MB L2 cache
Memory: Corsair PC4200 Dual Core 2 GB RAM (2x1GB 533 MHz)
Motherboard: Asus P5W DH DLX Core 2
Hard drive: Seagate Ultra ATA/100 7200 RPM 8MB cache
Graphics card: Nvidia Quadro FX 1400 (mfg by PNY Technologies?)
Power supply: Ultra 500 Watt ATX (total output power 500 W, AC input
voltage 115V/230V))
extra case fan

I don't know anything about voltage etc.. not sure if there is
something incompatible here? I did download and update the latest
BIOS.

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I'm running Asus PC Probe to monitor temps. I'm not sure what all of
them mean, but here's what they read..

These ones are green -

CPU: 44C (manual says it's supposed to be at or below 38C, but the
temp seems pretty stable. Is it OK if it's a little over? Should I
just set the threshhold temperature higher so it doesn't sound an
alarm?)
+3.3: 3.46V
Vcore: 1.29V
+5: 5.20V
+12: 12.30V

These ones are red -

MB: 50C
CPU fan: 1721 RPM

Again, other than the CPU temp, I'm not even sure what levels these
should be running at. The motherboard's manual didn't list what the
temp should be running at.

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I turned off Windows' automatic reboot option, so I would get a
"blue screen of death" error message. This is what it says
(and it's all Greek to me):

STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x805502E0, 0xB59B4AB8, 0x00000000)
Beginning dump of physical memory.
Physical memory dump complete.

 

[Rod Speed]

A friend recently helped me build a new PC, and it's having a super
nasty, irritating problem where it randomly reboots itself while I'm
in the middle of something important. I'm a bit green when it comes
to hardware stuff, so I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot
the problem. I'll post the system specs below, as well as the error I'm getting:

Windows XP Professional
Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 GHz @ 1066 / 4MB L2 cache
Memory: Corsair PC4200 Dual Core 2 GB RAM (2x1GB 533 MHz)

You're sposed to be using DDR2 ram in that system.
Put the motherboard into
http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/configurator_search.html

Motherboard: Asus P5W DH DLX Core 2
Hard drive: Seagate Ultra ATA/100 7200 RPM 8MB cache
Graphics card: Nvidia Quadro FX 1400 (mfg by PNY Technologies?)
Power supply: Ultra 500 Watt ATX (total output power 500 W, AC input
voltage 115V/230V))
extra case fan

I don't know anything about voltage etc.. not sure if there is something
incompatible here? I did download and update the latest BIOS.

I'm running Asus PC Probe to monitor temps. I'm not
sure what all of them mean, but here's what they read..

These ones are green -

CPU: 44C (manual says it's supposed to be at or below 38C,
but the temp seems pretty stable. Is it OK if it's a little over?
Yes.

Should I just set the threshhold temperature
higher so it doesn't sound an alarm?)

Yes, set it at 50C.

+3.3: 3.46V
Vcore: 1.29V
+5: 5.20V
+12: 12.30V

Those are fine.

These ones are red -

MB: 50C

Yeah, thats a bit high, likely you arent getting good airflow thru
the case, but it shouldnt be higher than the cpu, so likely its bogus.
See what Everest says. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

CPU fan: 1721 RPM

Again, other than the CPU temp, I'm not even sure what
levels these should be running at. The motherboard's
manual didn't list what the temp should be running at.

It cant, its essentially determined by the case fans and airflow.

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I turned off Windows' automatic reboot option, so I would get a
"blue screen of death" error message. This is what it says
(and it's all Greek to me):

STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x805502E0, 0xB59B4AB8, 0x00000000)
Beginning dump of physical memory.
Physical memory dump complete.

The event log should be more intelligable.

Its whining about a memory error. Run memtest86 overnight and if
that doesnt show any problem, run the Prime95 system ****er test.

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I'm really hoping that there is an easy solution and someone can help me fix this.

Looks like it doesnt like the memory much.

 

[Bob M]

You're sposed to be using DDR2 ram in that system.
Put the motherboard into
http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/configurator_search.html

He is using DDR2 ram.