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[Ozzie]

Tower: Thermaltake Armour Server Case S1 With 25cm Side Fan
Power Supply: 800w Antec True Power
Motherboard: Asus P5K-E
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.66ghz
Graphic Card 1: Gigabyte ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 512mb DDR2
Graphic Card 2: Gigabyte ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 512mb DDR2
Hard Drive 1: WD Raptor 37gb Sata2
Hard Drive 2: WD Raptor 37gb Sata2
Hard Drive 3: Seagate Barracuda 320gb Sata2
Hard Drive 4: Seagate Barracuda 320gb Sata2
Hard Drive 5: Seagate Barracuda 320gb Sata2
Optical Drive 1: Asus Lightscribe 20X Sata DVD/CD Burner
Optical Drive 2: Asus Lightscribe 16X IDE DVD/CD Burner
Memory: 4 X 1gb (4gb) DDR2 800mhz Kingston

Other Added Features:
Full Thermaltake Liquid Cooling System
2 X VF1000 Zelman VGA Heatpipe Heatsink/fans
4 xCase Fans (Thermaltake)


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Hard Drive 1,2 - Raided Stripe0 (Windows Drive)
Hard Drive 3,4,5 - Raided Stripe0 (Storage Drive)
Both ATI's are native crossfire @ 1gb DDR2

 

[SweetWagon]

Built my first PC:

Asus Vento A8 case
450W Asus PSU
Gigabyte EP-45-DS3 MOBO
Intel E8500 CPU 3.16Ghz
2 x 1GB Kingston DDR2-800
Asus 512mb 8600GT
Western Digital 320GB SATA HDD
Samsung SATA 20x DVD
3 case fans
LG 19" LCD
Logitech Z4 2.1 speakers
Compaq keyboard
HP Mouse
WinXP- Professional SP3

 

[ucwepn]

I'm running:
Thermaltake power supply
Asus p5kpl-cm 1600fsb motherboard
intel pentium dual core [email protected]
3gb generic ram ddr2 800mhz
asus pci-e 8600gt oc (not o/c'd)
250gb + 80gb hd
X-tec midi tower case (black)
19" asus vw192t lcd monitor

does the job on the cheeeeep! lol

 

[levymetal]

My pc is about 3 years old, bluescreens about twice a day now. Shame because the speed is still fine for what I use it for.

p4 3.2GHz
4gb ddr ram
60gb + 120gb + 160gb + 320gb hdds
radeon 9600xt 256mb
2x dvd burners
cheapo case and i custom built a clear side panel haha
neon light which never gets used
4 neon fans, again none of which are connected any more, too noisy and did nothing!

 

[Heffer_Slayer]

What blue screen do you get? maybe i can help u out..

 

[levymetal]

thanks man, i forgot now, i googled it a while back and no one knew the answer on how to solve it. my other problem is that, usually when loading something, the mouse becomes real jerky. my assumption is something is interrupting the processor so much that it affects the mouse movement. it's all hardware related - i can reformat a million times and i get the exact same problems. i have my suspicions, crappy gigabyte motherboard, dodgy ram, processor. no point replacing any of those components because it's all outdated and non transferable to a new pc if i got one.

 

[Heffer_Slayer]

Yer...definaltey sounds hardware related. If your mouse stutters, its because the cpu is maxed out. Though it should never get to that stage...sounds like your hardware is dieing but you are right. Could be any one of the things you have mentioned. If you want to rule out your ram try running a "mem test" and running prime95 to see if ur cpu is alright.

 

[radarak47]

some basics for you.

download memtest86+ and burn to CD. Start the computer and allow it to boot from the CD. This program will tell you if your ram is playing up. I find this is one of the most common problems for blue screens on older computers (bung RAM or bung DDR/DDRII ram slot on the mainboard). The second most common issue is drivers not up to date or conflicting with other installed hardware or corupt programs (software).

PM me if you want me to to a remote diagnostic on it.

 

[levymetal]

yeah i've done memtest before, no issues there, also tried manually running the computer with 1 stick in it at a time in each slot and i get the same issues. drivers are always 100% up to date. it's unexplainable. i can't remember how long ago it was that i ran memtest though, and for how long, so i'll give it another crack tonight and leave it on all night.

i dug up my google searches and found the error, IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL. doing a google search on it and all the links are purple haha. never found the issue and just living with it now.

 

[Ozzie]

check ur system event log and it will tell you whats causing it