I posted a thread asking for help narrowing down my BSOD trouble. It now seems to be a definate hardware issue, so now I'm looking for guidance on where to start. I am wildly guessing that it would be a memory, CPU or power supply trouble -but I haven't ruled out video card either. Any and all help ruling any items in or out would be great!
My original thread is here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...2&threadid=1386499
And the summary is that I am getting random, varied BSODs with multiple stop messages.
The WD drive passes all tests as good.
The memory originally passed Memtest86, but is now failing consistantly on test 4 (5 fails on 56 runs). Both sticks fail. However the failure "point" in the memory is NEVER the same. Wouldn't bad memory always fail at the same memory location?
The power supply (Channelwell 420) isn't making any funny noises, or smells. I tried booting with just a CPU fan and the hard drive connected to the PS, and still had crashing.
CPU -the test Memtest is failing on does use cache, and will not allow it to be turned off. This CPU is a 1.6a that has been running 2.4 for well over 2 years at 1.65v.
Where do I start?
My original thread is here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...2&threadid=1386499
And the summary is that I am getting random, varied BSODs with multiple stop messages.
The WD drive passes all tests as good.
The memory originally passed Memtest86, but is now failing consistantly on test 4 (5 fails on 56 runs). Both sticks fail. However the failure "point" in the memory is NEVER the same. Wouldn't bad memory always fail at the same memory location?
The power supply (Channelwell 420) isn't making any funny noises, or smells. I tried booting with just a CPU fan and the hard drive connected to the PS, and still had crashing.
CPU -the test Memtest is failing on does use cache, and will not allow it to be turned off. This CPU is a 1.6a that has been running 2.4 for well over 2 years at 1.65v.
Where do I start?