Hello all :wave: This seems like a pretty cool place I am surprised I haven't found it before!
Hardware Spec:
OCZ 500 watt stealth stream PSU
Cooler Master RC-690 case
Western Digital Caviar Black 620GB HDD
Samsung 22x DVD Burner
ASUS M4A78T-E Socket AM3 790GX chipset (BIOS 2105) MoBo
onboard Radeon HD3300
AMD Socket AM3 Phenom II X4 965 BE (stock HSF no overclock)
4GB (2X2GB) OCZ obsidian DDR3 1600
I recycled an old compaq keyboard
a new Logitech wireless mouse
and ancient Northgate Innovations 15" LCD Monitor
I am using Windows 7 pro 64bit
I have RAM set in BIOS @1333mhz as my MoBo doesn't run 1600 natively, also I have the voltage set to 1.66 manufacturer specs is 1.65 but my BIOS only allows .02 increments)
it all started the day I built the system (less then a week ago) I built it, updated my BIOS, and all AMD/ATI drivers for my hardware.I started getting TDR events with my ATI driver being recovered/restared, shortly followed by a BSoD. After a crash course in the most basic usage of window debugging tools I saw it was calling out Atikmdag.sys, which after much forum trolling and googleing seems to be a pretty widespread issue. When I had the most up to date ATI drivers and catylist control center installed i would get TDR events every minuet or so, and my display was crappy, kind of pixleated showing small 'tears' or slits in the desktop and big flashing blocks like an old NES game not loaded right. If I used the scroll wheel on my mouse the page i was scrolling would go blank... Anyways after uninstalling all ATI software I can now at least use the comp, but it is still failing prime 95 and if i stress the onboard GPU at all i get TDR or BSoD probably because i am not using ATI drivers.
Basicly I have tried old drivers, newest drivers, drivers only wih no CCC, only one stick of RAM, MSCONFIG/Boot Tab and manually setting cores and Max RAM, I have also tried running my RAM ganged into one channel. So far the only way I have been able to keep the system stable enough to even test stability is by not running any ATI software/Drivers at all, but now my GPU is unstable and I am still hainge stress test problems with the whole system.
A Major concern of mine is I don't know if i should change my RAM out for something with more documented support from my MoBo, could the RAM failing be adding to all my Blue screens and the failure of my GPU? I have succesfully run Memtest86+ on my RAM for a couple hours with no failure so i think the RAM is good but it might not be interacting well with the rest of my set up...:sigh:
I have never built from scratch just rebuilt old systems back before SATA, muti-cores and PCIe so I am just really at a loss as to what my next steps should be.:4-dontkno
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hardware Spec:
OCZ 500 watt stealth stream PSU
Cooler Master RC-690 case
Western Digital Caviar Black 620GB HDD
Samsung 22x DVD Burner
ASUS M4A78T-E Socket AM3 790GX chipset (BIOS 2105) MoBo
onboard Radeon HD3300
AMD Socket AM3 Phenom II X4 965 BE (stock HSF no overclock)
4GB (2X2GB) OCZ obsidian DDR3 1600
I recycled an old compaq keyboard
a new Logitech wireless mouse
and ancient Northgate Innovations 15" LCD Monitor
I am using Windows 7 pro 64bit
I have RAM set in BIOS @1333mhz as my MoBo doesn't run 1600 natively, also I have the voltage set to 1.66 manufacturer specs is 1.65 but my BIOS only allows .02 increments)
it all started the day I built the system (less then a week ago) I built it, updated my BIOS, and all AMD/ATI drivers for my hardware.I started getting TDR events with my ATI driver being recovered/restared, shortly followed by a BSoD. After a crash course in the most basic usage of window debugging tools I saw it was calling out Atikmdag.sys, which after much forum trolling and googleing seems to be a pretty widespread issue. When I had the most up to date ATI drivers and catylist control center installed i would get TDR events every minuet or so, and my display was crappy, kind of pixleated showing small 'tears' or slits in the desktop and big flashing blocks like an old NES game not loaded right. If I used the scroll wheel on my mouse the page i was scrolling would go blank... Anyways after uninstalling all ATI software I can now at least use the comp, but it is still failing prime 95 and if i stress the onboard GPU at all i get TDR or BSoD probably because i am not using ATI drivers.
Basicly I have tried old drivers, newest drivers, drivers only wih no CCC, only one stick of RAM, MSCONFIG/Boot Tab and manually setting cores and Max RAM, I have also tried running my RAM ganged into one channel. So far the only way I have been able to keep the system stable enough to even test stability is by not running any ATI software/Drivers at all, but now my GPU is unstable and I am still hainge stress test problems with the whole system.
A Major concern of mine is I don't know if i should change my RAM out for something with more documented support from my MoBo, could the RAM failing be adding to all my Blue screens and the failure of my GPU? I have succesfully run Memtest86+ on my RAM for a couple hours with no failure so i think the RAM is good but it might not be interacting well with the rest of my set up...:sigh:
I have never built from scratch just rebuilt old systems back before SATA, muti-cores and PCIe so I am just really at a loss as to what my next steps should be.:4-dontkno
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.