When I first built my current system I had no end of instability issues, most commonly manifesting as freezing during the POST (9/10 boots), but occasionally getting as far as Windows for an hour or so before crashing and not rebooting. After much cursing (I’m quite a beginner, this is only my second system I’ve built for myself), it finally became stable when only using one of the two memory sticks (specs to the left).
At the time, I was just relieved to have a working machine, so brushed the memory issue under the carpet, and I’ve not really noticed much limitation despite only having half the memory I bought at half the speed. But now it’s bugging me and I was hoping for some pointers so I can figure out what’s the problem and hopefully fix it. I’ve since flashed the latest BIOS for the motherboard, but have yet to tackle the memory issue for fear of the reoccurring instability!
I’m guessing it is either duff memory, a duff motherboard or just complete failure on my part as it wasn’t typically getting to Windows, although only having a 32 bit OS probably doesn’t help.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!