My rig:
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EPOX EP-9NPA+ // A64-3000BW/XP-90 //Antec SLK3000B
Hitachi T7K250 250GB SATA II // Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Gamer // NEC ND-3540A 16X Double Layer DVD±RW
Seasonic 500w // EVGA 7800GT // Patriot PDC1G3200+XBLK 512 x 2
The board is about 5 months old. I had it overclocked with a 3000 venice for about 4 months going from 1.8 to about 2.3. Now it works ONLY on stock.
I started getting some IRQL errors so I thought it was the mem. Toned down the overclock to about 2.2, still had erros so I did some memtests. Both sticks ran stable at 235. So I don't think its the memory.
Just incase I tried to isolate the problem. I underclocked the RAM to 100mhz. Lowered the CPU multi to x6 as well. The highest I can raise my HTT is 205 before it crashes when loading windows xp. Another forumer suggested I might have data corruption. I formatted and reloaded XP, still getting the same errors. Is my board just dying? It's frusterating being able to run only stock especially since the board is not even 6 months old yet!
Anything else I can do to test this before I declare it dead and try to get EPOX to cover it?
Thanks!