I have been having so much bother with New build an Windows 7. I far as I can test individual components all seems well, as for Windows7 thats another story. So far have installed it 3 times, first time I made mistakes,second time I assumed it was one of the 5 pieces of software or camera etc. So on the third time, after reinstall and each time I installed a camera, printer etc I restarted the machine. I have installed very little software, but have installed some games,again restarting after each install. When I finally switched it off last night all was well. This morning 0630 switched on BSOD and another and another,never the same error code, did a bit of goggling, ran memtest on each of my 2x 2Gg memory sticks no errors found. Tried to run memtest with both modules installed, PC just rebooted and now I have the desktop back and all seems fine, but strange it would not test with both modules on board, possible mobo fault? Reason for post I want to stress this PC test all main components as hard as I can. Is there any software out there,free would be good. Specs. XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card 4GB G.Skill RipJaws 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory Kit 550W OCZ Fatal1ty Modular Power Supply Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L Mobo 1TB Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD BX80605I5750 - Intel Core i5 750, S 1156, Lynnfield, Quad Core Xigmatek Midgard Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Quiet Intel CPU Cooler
Which memtest did you use? I would use the CD-based one, there're a couple of versions on UBCD. That shouldn't reboot on errors unless you've got something really bad going on. Then again if it was really bad you wouldn't be able to install windows. How are your temps? Have you used any of the hardware before?
Memtest 86 on cd. Strang that it would not test with both modules in place. PC running fine now, temps around the 32-35 mark and no this is a new build so havn't used hardware before. Thanks.
Motherboards seem to default to an undervolted setting with incredibly loose timings. For example mine used 1.3v for the RAM at 9 9 9 24. To stress test the system you can use Prime95, Intel's burn test,Wprime,SuperPi to name a few, while even running games like GTA IV or Crysis give a system a pretty good work out.
