computer driving me crazy!

[nkapke]

I recently purchased a new computer from newegg,
Biostar t-force 550
AMD 3800+ single core
2 GB 800 hegahertz OCZ ram
Sapphire radeon x850xt
antec smartpower 2.0 500 wattz
I'm using a 160 gig seagate IDE HD
and an old CD/DVD rom

I have been fighting this beast for 2 weeks now, at first it would not post, but starting the computer with just one stick of ram allowed me to post.

Both sticks would not pass memtest untill I upped the voltage from the 1.9 base to 2.1.

After 3 failed windows installs the fourth one took. But it runs really slow. The task manager in windows takes ~33% of the processor and windows explorer ~60%. It also takes about 10 minutes to boot up. The computer hasn't been online yet so I can't be viruses or spyware.

To confuse the issue even more, either stick of memory passes memtest indvidually, but when I run memtest with them both in I get ~20,000 errors a pass starting at test 7.

Do I have bad components? Bad windows install?

Please
Nate

 

[Navid]

Your RAM only needs 2.1V?
Do you have a link to this memory?

 

[nkapke]

Here the link
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/m.../ocz_ddr2_pc2_6400_platinum_revision_2

2.1v should be more than enough, according to this site.

Nate

 

[Navid]

Run CPU-Z and see what it shows.
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Look under the "CPU" tab and see what it shows for "Core Speed".
What does it show for "Channel #" and frequency under the "Memory" tab? How about "Command Rate"?

 

[lyssword]

check in your bios to see if cpu external and internal cache is enabled or not, and also maybe try using easier timings on memory see if that helps.

 

[lyssword]

check in your bios to see if cpu external and internal cache is enabled or not, and also maybe try using easier timings on memory see if that helps.

*bah ssry double post

 

[nkapke]

Lyssword was right, I needed to turn those caches on, but now I have a new problem. Windows keeps crashing every few minunutes I get the stop error 0x0000008e. Is my memory bad, or are there setting I just need to adjust, my current timings are set at 4-4-4-15.

Thanks