BSOD on new SN45G

[SFFNewBoy]

Putting my new SN45G together is giving me some hassle.
I keep getting a blue screen in XP. I've got a feeling it is the memory but some of you with more experience may know otherwise.

Spec:

2x 512MB Xtreme Technology DDR PC2700 (333)
Sapphire 9200 Atlantis 128
AMD 2500+ XP

I have installed Windows XP, latest mobo and gfx card drivers and updated the bios to 45....M However I cant run the system at the settings I think it should be at.

[1] When I set the bios in optimal mode to 166. When the PC boots the bios output correctly identifies the cpu as an Athalon XP 2500+ and the memory running at 333. Here 25% of the time I will get a blue screen during boot. If it makes it to the logon screen as soon as I click one of the users it crashes.

[2] Dropping the setting for the CPU down to 150. Gives me the following on the bios screen. CPU is a 1900+ and memory running at 266. Here the PC boots up fine an works with the occassional blue screen. Unfortunatly the blue screens vanish before I can read them and make a note of the error(s). But from the words I have caught it sounds like a memory thing (Invalid address, out of range,....)

When the PC reboots XP offers to send a report to MS. If I send it sometimes the returned diagnosis is a device driver other times they have no answer.

[3] I thought something weird might have happen during the install of XP. So I set the bios settings back to 166 for the CPU and tryed to install XP again on a different partition. Both times I got a BSOD before it got to the bit before it asks you where to install XP. If you are wondering how I installed XP in the first place I think I did it when the BIOS was at the default setting of 100 FSB.

[4] Back on the 150 setting where the PC thinks it has a AMD 1900+ i have run some CPU stress programs. The system stays up during these tests when the CPU is maxed out.


As I said at the start my guess is memory so I am going to see if I can find anyone I know with a spare bit of PC2700 memory and try that. However if you think I am going in the wrong direction or have any advise about testing the existing memory or config please let me know.

[SFFNewBoy]

New memory fixed the problem.

Followed the link off the hexus homepage to Crucial and chose the memory they recommended for a SN45G.

[jbheller]

Putting my new SN45G together is giving me some hassle.
I keep getting a blue screen in XP. I've got a feeling it is the memory but some of you with more experience may know otherwise.

Spec:

2x 512MB Xtreme Technology DDR PC2700 (333)
Sapphire 9200 Atlantis 128
AMD 2500+ XP

I have installed Windows XP, latest mobo and gfx card drivers and updated the bios to 45....M However I cant run the system at the settings I think it should be at.

[1] When I set the bios in optimal mode to 166. When the PC boots the bios output correctly identifies the cpu as an Athalon XP 2500+ and the memory running at 333. Here 25% of the time I will get a blue screen during boot. If it makes it to the logon screen as soon as I click one of the users it crashes.

[2] Dropping the setting for the CPU down to 150. Gives me the following on the bios screen. CPU is a 1900+ and memory running at 266. Here the PC boots up fine an works with the occassional blue screen. Unfortunatly the blue screens vanish before I can read them and make a note of the error(s). But from the words I have caught it sounds like a memory thing (Invalid address, out of range,....)

When the PC reboots XP offers to send a report to MS. If I send it sometimes the returned diagnosis is a device driver other times they have no answer.

[3] I thought something weird might have happen during the install of XP. So I set the bios settings back to 166 for the CPU and tryed to install XP again on a different partition. Both times I got a BSOD before it got to the bit before it asks you where to install XP. If you are wondering how I installed XP in the first place I think I did it when the BIOS was at the default setting of 100 FSB.

[4] Back on the 150 setting where the PC thinks it has a AMD 1900+ i have run some CPU stress programs. The system stays up during these tests when the CPU is maxed out.


As I said at the start my guess is memory so I am going to see if I can find anyone I know with a spare bit of PC2700 memory and try that. However if you think I am going in the wrong direction or have any advise about testing the existing memory or config please let me know.

[jbheller]

I have built three shuttles with the SN45G barebones kit. They work a lot better with good quality ram. I tried using PC2100 ram with an athalon 2500XP chip, which runs at 166/333 and the system was unstable and bluescreened.

After replacing the ram chips with good PC2700 ram, the system was very stable.

I have also found that old graphics drivers on the 9600 graphics cards make the system unstable too, so get the latest off the ati web site....not the windows update page.