Hope someone out there can help me with a mystery problem on my home computer.
I had a Soyo KT266 Dragon+ with a Athlon 1900+ and 1x PNY 512MB of PC2100 and 1x PNY 256MB of PC2100 (W2K SP4 OS). The system had problems with spontaneous restarts (triggered in W2K and producing dump files). These problems got much worse if a third PC2100 chip was added to the system. Eventually, I was told by Soyo that the board would not support a 3rd PC2100 chip.
This led to my purchase of a Soyu KT333 Dragon Ultra to get support of 3 PC2100 chips. I also purchased 2 new Crucial 512MB PC2100 chips that were on Soyo's recommended list. After replacing the MB and the memory, I reinstalled the OS and all necessary software from scratch. While trying to use the system with the 3x 512MB PC2100 chips, I still ran into frequent restarts. Removal of the PNY chip lessened the problem. However, in processor and memory intensive applications (CAD), the computer still has errors and periodically freezes up entirely (both are generally repeatable). The software that I am running is pretty mainstream and well-supported (although I also have a request in to them regarding the problem).
An overnight memory scan indicated no problems with the memory. Using the CPU Stability Test 5.0 triggered a restart (with dump) last night. All of this seems to point to a CPU issue, but I've always heard that a bad CPU is a rare event, so I wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions.
Thanks,
Torrey
I had a Soyo KT266 Dragon+ with a Athlon 1900+ and 1x PNY 512MB of PC2100 and 1x PNY 256MB of PC2100 (W2K SP4 OS). The system had problems with spontaneous restarts (triggered in W2K and producing dump files). These problems got much worse if a third PC2100 chip was added to the system. Eventually, I was told by Soyo that the board would not support a 3rd PC2100 chip.
This led to my purchase of a Soyu KT333 Dragon Ultra to get support of 3 PC2100 chips. I also purchased 2 new Crucial 512MB PC2100 chips that were on Soyo's recommended list. After replacing the MB and the memory, I reinstalled the OS and all necessary software from scratch. While trying to use the system with the 3x 512MB PC2100 chips, I still ran into frequent restarts. Removal of the PNY chip lessened the problem. However, in processor and memory intensive applications (CAD), the computer still has errors and periodically freezes up entirely (both are generally repeatable). The software that I am running is pretty mainstream and well-supported (although I also have a request in to them regarding the problem).
An overnight memory scan indicated no problems with the memory. Using the CPU Stability Test 5.0 triggered a restart (with dump) last night. All of this seems to point to a CPU issue, but I've always heard that a bad CPU is a rare event, so I wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions.
Thanks,
Torrey