new system stability problem

[arameth]

I'm hoping someone else has run into this, or maybe have helped someone in the same situation.

I recently built a new system, and I've been having odd problems (BSOD's...mostly 0x0000000a, hangs, etc)...here are the specs:

Asus P5E (right out of the box, no mods, bios 0702)
Intel e8400 retail
Zalman CNPS9700 cooling
4 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix tracers (DDR2 800)
SAMSUNG HD753LJ 750GB SATA
Onboard sound
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (MSI - stock, no OC)
Tagan BZ 800W PSU

So I figured the most obvious thing to check on first was RAM...tried removing a pair...and swapping for other pair when problems persisted, but no joy there...still unstable. Just want to reiterate, I've not modified or OC'd at all...I'd just like to get stable before pushing the limits here. Temp's are very low (30's, sometimes 40's under stress)....and I don't even have to push the system to crash...will be sitting in Firefox idle and get bsod's.

I guess the first thing I'm looking for is some stock BIOS settings that will get things stable. Can someone give some guidance/links/whatever to settings that will be ultra stable?

any ideas on how to go about diagnosing the problem?

thanks in advance!

 

[wanderer27]

Usually your problem is caused by a bad PSU or RAM.

You have an ASUS MB though, so my guess is you may not have gone in BIOS and turned off the OC'ing options.

On my older ASUS there are at least three areas where you have to manually disable OC'ing.
If these are left to their default your System will automatically try to OC even if you don't want/intend it.

Check the BIOS options in your manual, you problem have something along these lines going on.

 

[daveybrat]

Stop error 0x0000000A (Stop 0x0A) indicates that there was an attempt in kernel mode to touch pageable memory at too high a process internal request level (IRQL). Typically, this error occurs when a driver uses an incorrect memory address. Other possible causes of this error are an incompatible device driver, a general hardware problem, and incompatible software.

Here's what microsoft says that BSOD error means.

Sounds like ram to me.

 

[wanderer27]

Originally posted by: daveybrat

Stop error 0x0000000A (Stop 0x0A) indicates that there was an attempt in kernel mode to touch pageable memory at too high a process internal request level (IRQL). Typically, this error occurs when a driver uses an incorrect memory address. Other possible causes of this error are an incompatible device driver, a general hardware problem, and incompatible software.

Here's what microsoft says that BSOD error means.

Sounds like ram to me.

Agreed, but if it's the ASUS OC options they'll try to overdrive everything in your System.

First time I put my System together it tried to run my CPU at 6GHz

Still don't know how it came up with that OC . . . .

 

[arameth]

Just swapped out memory for Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800...had to set voltage to 2.15 to get it to boot. We'll see how this works...haven't gone a full day without a crash, so it shouldn't take long. I also have a corsair tx650 PSU standing by if this doesn't do the track.

Keeping my fingers crossed...thanks again for the input. Will update in a few days with results.