athlon 64 problems..

[k3nt]

I have had headaches over the past month with my new system. random Win XP blue screens of death, problems with audigy 2 (drivers updated), etc. I fumbled with my MSI K8T Neo pretty badly when I built the comp and am afraid I damaged it. I finally gave up today and ordered a MSI K8N Platinum.

btw, I have troubledshooted some, including memtest. pretty sure my memory is ok. anyway, some of the BSOD messages I have received include "machine check exception" and "kernel stack inpage error."

what I am wondering is the CPU could possibly be "defective." I assumed that if my CPU isnt dead on arrival, there isnt anything wrong with it. Is this assumption correct? Or could there potentially be a defect or problem with my athlon 64 3000?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

if you get a BSOD,that means windows was able to write to its error logs and give specific reasons for the crashes. look through them.

 

[k3nt]

lol how do I look through them (sorry for being a noob)

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

right click my computer>manage>system tools>event viewer>system

 

[k3nt]

k. btw, the error that led me to finally purchase a new mobo is that the system suddenly did not recognize my hard drive. I came out of the shower to find my computer in a boot loop.....went into the bios, bios didnt recognize any hard disks. reset CMOS jumper, bam the hard drive is recognized again...= (

hope the new mobo fixes all. what do you think?