Yesterday Afternoon: Computer parts got here, started building my computer. Finished with no issues except that I wasn't quite sure if the CPU heatsink/fan was on correctly.
Once finished, I took the computer and monitor downstairs, and plugged it in. It seemed to work fine. I put the Windows XP disc in, installed, and was copying program files including Service Pack 2 over from an iPod to my hard drive. In the middle of this, the iPod and computer froze, and from then on this installation of XP began acting odd. I decided since I wasn't far into the installation, that something must have gotten corrupted and I reformatted.
This time, I got everything installed and copied over fine, connected to the internet and began downloading Windows Updates. At this point, I had begun to notice that the hard drive was louder and made more annoying noises than any I had ever had before. I figured it was just how this brand was, as I had always used Western Digital's before. Anyway, once I had those Windows Updates, a firewall, and an Antivirus program installed, I installed World of Warcraft and began playing. I had only been playing for about 30 minutes when the sound began repeating and it went to a BSOD, saying "Memory_Management", and at the bottom of the screen saying "Beginning physical memory dump".
I started to worry, but restarted the computer and it seemed to restart fine so I went to bed, intending to fix the problem tomorrow (today). I woke up this morning and began playing World of Warcraft again. Within an hour, I got another BSOD, saying the same thing. I started to google the error, and found many things that were not helpful, but I did find one link saying that it could possibly be your CPU memory cache. This made me remember that I had been a bit nervous about my installation of the CPU heatsink. I downloaded a temperature monitor, began running a game to gauge it, and sure enough, it was at a scalding 85 degrees celcius. I quickly turned the computer off and moved to another computer in the house, found instructions on how to correctly install the heatsink, and did so.
I restarted my computer, and checked the idle temp. 30C, quite normal. I loaded up a game and it was still only at 40C. I THINK I fixed that problem. I played for awhile, and was convinced I had fixed all my problems, when I got another BSOD, this time saying "Kernel_stack_inpage_error", again saying at the bottom "Beginning physical memory dump". I was kind of angry that I was having so many problems, and when I restarted the computer, it would not go past the motherboard brand screen. I shut down the computer and went to another computer to look up a solution to this BSOD. It said to first run a complete virus scan, then run a Chckdisk to locate any errors or anything. I did both of these and there were no viruses, and Chckdisk seemed to go all right, if a little slow, and it didn't report any errors. I didn't know what to do, so I again tried to play my game. Within 5 minutes I got another Kernel BSOD, and again it wouldn't boot past the motherboard brand screen, so I shut it off. I switched the SATA cable, and plugged it into a different space on the motherboard. I switched the two sticks of ram to the other two slots. I was intending to run the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool to see if my RAM was faulty, but I loaded up Windows and shortly after got another BSOD, this time another "Memory_Management" one. This was about a half hour ago, and my computer has been off since then, except about 5 minutes ago when I tried to boot it and it wouldn't go past the motherboard brand screen.
That's everything that's happened, and I really do not know what to do. I don't know if the fault lies with the RAM or the hard drive, and I am just at a loss. I would really like to fix this soon, so if anyone has any advice or things to try, please say them. Thanks for any help.
Parts list:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
Video Card: XFX Gefore 8600GT
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400
PSU: XCLIO GOODPOWER 500W
Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion
RAM: G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 667
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 250gb SATA
Edited by Zacmaniac, 03 August 2007 - 09:30 PM.
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