Wierd crashes? No BSOD

[chouchou]

updated bios. still happens
i am leaning towards the phone static/frequency thing again. is that a real possibility? or should i be looking into memory/hard drives...
this is annoying :(
googled and can't find anything

[Eagle Eye]

Have you removed the fan controller yet?

Check your HDDs connections from the board to the HDD you could of knocked something loose or potentially damaged something when you installed the fan controller.

Any chance you could post the smart values using the program I showed you.

Thanks,

EE

[chouchou]

sorry EE let me get on that.
thank you for ur consistent help

no - i havn't removed the fan controller. i'll try that later tonight. no fans running a good idea?
also, i ran a 7 hour run of memtest+, test 7 returned 1 error. should that be looked into?

[chouchou]

apparently i cannot access SMART under a nvidia chipset using vista 64.....
there is a workaround for it, let me give it a shot.

[k3nnny]

i used to have a similar problem
try setting the values for ram timings volt etc if u havnt already
it worked for me

[Eagle Eye]

Chouchu no need to apologize dude and I am here to help when I can.

Try HD Tune.

EE

[chouchou]

Ok, so i contacted WD Support
they're offering to send me a replacement for my 640gb Caviar SE16 with bad sectors.
Should i advance RMA it and hope that my problems go away?

i downloaded HD Tune. anything interesting you might want out of it? dunno much about hdd's =\

[Eagle Eye]

So it was your HDD all along, how did you determine that? If you have bad sectors on that drive already than its only going to get worse and I'd do the advanced RMA.

You also said that your memory returned an error using memtest86 what are doing about that?

EE

[chouchou]

Well - i havn't crashed once today.. Knock on wood, but ive kept the phone away from it the whole time.
I will do the advanced RMA. I pay shipping there, right?
Regarding the memory.. Don't know if i have the money to invest 80$ in another set of ramsticks right now.... Is it really a big deal for 1 error in a 7 hour run?

[Eagle Eye]

It could be some slight instability with the chips. Are you running them at their rated speed and spec?

As suggested a touch more voltage or adjust the timings, it might help in the short run. Also you could test each module individually see which one is the problem, albeit a little tideous.