New Build Problems

[GTetraKai]

Ok, I just recently finished my new build (specs below) and I seem to be having two major problems:

My 2gigs of RAM is only being read as 1gig

Randon cumputer crashes

For the RAM, I double checked everything that I thought to be the problem. The specs for the MoBo says that it supports up to 4gigs of RAM. I pulled up the part number on teh corsair website and verified that is was, indeed, 2gig of RAM. I dunno what else I should be looking for now.

About the random crashes... the only thing I installed on the comp is winamp, lime wire and World of Warcraft. I'll try to play a video or an audio file and the compy will crash... I try to log onto WoW and the comp crashes... I dunno what to do. I think maybe it has something to do with the RAM, but I dunno. Any suggestions?





WinXp Home w/sp2
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
ECS KN1 Lite
2Gig Corsair CMX1024-3200C2PT
BFG GF7800 GS OC 256MB AGP Graphics Card
Antec 350W SmartPower ATX12V power supply

[glc]

Is that ram listed as compatible with that motherboard on either the Corsair configurator or the ECS site?

[jfk]

Your PSU might be a little light for that card, causing the crashes. I believe NVIDIA suggests either a 400 or 450 watt PSU with that card (can't remember which for sure).

[GTetraKai]

I checked the the corsair website and I can't find my MoBo... I looked up the compatible RAM for the ECS KN1 Extreme and the RAM I got is on the list... so now what do I do?

[GTetraKai]

Ok... took the RAM back to Fry's... found out it was 512, not 1gig (like the packaging stated). I got the RAM exchanged and bought a new 500w PSU. I tried to run WoW and as soon as the app began to run, I got a memory error. I restarted the app and my compy crashed...

I'm going to try one more time and see if I get any errors, prolly post some screenshots if/when I do get another error.

[Alaron]

Quality is more important then quantity. 500w is plenty, but what brand did you buy?

You can test your ram with this: http://www.memtest.org/ Be sure to let it run for a long time, overnight is best.

[GTetraKai]

Its a ThermalTake Purepower 500W PSU

[GTetraKai]

now it crashed and did a memory dump and gave me an error of " CRQL_not_less_or_equal" , then after it restarted it gave me an error of..

Error type Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with error code information)
Solution available? Yes
What does this error mean? You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused the Windows operating system to stop unexpectedly. This type of error is referred to as a "stop error." A stop error requires you to restart your computer.
Cause A video adapter device driver
Computer symptoms A message appears on a blue screen with error code information:

STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
- or -
STOP: 0x100000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER_M

and.
Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078)

im gonna cry. .. any solutions?

[glc]

Uninstall your video driver and install the latest Nvidia Forceware drivers.

[GTetraKai]

Originally Posted by glc Uninstall your video driver and install the latest Nvidia Forceware drivers.

orginally i installed the drivers that came on the cd from the manufacturer, when i started getting that error i went to nvidias site and couldnt find the specific drivers for my card (nvidia egeforce 7900 gt) so i installed the generic drivers that they had listed for being complatible with most of their cards.

the PC's performance increased dramitically when i got the bugged RAM out and put in the good coarsair RAM that i origionally purchased but when i played games that put pressure on the GPU and the 3D rendering it crashes, i made sure that i had direct X 9 installed.

I formated both partions of my 300g HD and did disk check and defrag and dont know where to look for more answers at thsi point ;/

[glc]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_84.21.html

Uninstall the current drivers and clean up after them with Driver Cleaner Pro before installing the new drivers.