BSODs and "Your System has recovered from a serious error"

[CharmedLover84]

Alrighty, here's the spiel.

 

Friend of mine has an Opty 185 that he bought to make his system like mine, got himself an Expert board, and he has 2GBs of PC4000 Patriot RAM (the XLBKs).

 

He installed windows and has been getting BSODs and "Your system has recovered from a serious error" messages.

 

I gave him "STOCK" settings for the RAM from someone's Stock settings database, he's tried both them and "Optimized Defaults".

 

I suggested he do a full CMOS clear for 10 minutes like I've done in the past to correct this kind of issue.

 

My question is, what can he do next if the unlikely event occurs of that not fixing it?

[iamkoza]

Alrighty, here's the spiel.

 

Friend of mine has an Opty 185 that he bought to make his system like mine, got himself an Expert board, and he has 2GBs of PC4000 Patriot RAM (the XLBKs).

 

He installed windows and has been getting BSODs and "Your system has recovered from a serious error" messages.

 

I gave him "STOCK" settings for the RAM from someone's Stock settings database, he's tried both them and "Optimized Defaults".

 

I suggested he do a full CMOS clear for 10 minutes like I've done in the past to correct this kind of issue.

 

My question is, what can he do next if the unlikely event occurs of that not fixing it?

 

has he run memtest on the ram? shold do at least 8 passes of all tests. Need to know if memory settings are stable, if memtest spits out errors, you know you need to tweak the ram settings.... (even if yours are stable on your pc, you need him to run this)

[CharmedLover84]

Well, his memory turned out to be the problem although the CMOS reset fixed it, one stick passed and the other stick failed, so he's running a set of Ballistix now that he had lying around.

 

And the RAM settings that he's running now are getting him DDR500 @ 3-4-4-8 with pretty tight timings otherwise and he said it's passed 1 hour of Prime. Told him to run an 8 hour to be relatively sure it's stable and we'll go from there.

[iamkoza]

Well, his memory turned out to be the problem although the CMOS reset fixed it, one stick passed and the other stick failed, so he's running a set of Ballistix now that he had lying around.

 

And the RAM settings that he's running now are getting him DDR500 @ 3-4-4-8 with pretty tight timings otherwise and he said it's passed 1 hour of Prime. Told him to run an 8 hour to be relatively sure it's stable and we'll go from there.

 

 

should always run memtest before isntalling os, 1 hour of prime doenst mean much, id say at least 12, but thats a personal preference, running dual prime i hope?

[CharmedLover84]

1 hour of Prime is enough to determine whether the RAM is at least 99% stable

 

And of course Dual Prime. All we wanted to do was rule out the RAM being unstable, and 1-2 hours of passing means it's probably gonna be voltage related if it fails after running that long.

[Siclion]

charmed maybe you can help me

I have the same thing as him with the BSoD and had my ram RMAd got it back Friday reinstalled everything and ran memtest for 3hrs no errors booted up the comp installed MB drivers and started video card drivers then it crashed again.

the cpu and mobo have also been returned testing they were sent back ok so i know that they are ok this is killing me Ive never ran into a problem like this

[CharmedLover84]

Did you install Windows with 1 or 2 sticks installed?

 

Did you only install it with one Hard Drive installed?

 

Did you install the latest drivers for everything and one card at a time?

 

And have you tried a full CMOS reset?

 

If you answered no to any of those, it's a place to start. Other than that, perhaps others can give you other helpful hints. Do you know the exact message the blue screen is giving you or no?