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BSOD with assorted stop codes
Hiya.
After about 50 attempts at installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit to a newly built computer, I finally got it installed, despite all the "source file unavailable" messages and random BSODs, and ran it rock solid stable for about 6 hours last night. When I turned it on this morning, however, I was met with a BSOD upon loading my desktop with some error messages relating to various programs that I didn't have time to read. This, coincidentally, occurred on my previous fresh W7x32 install the day before, too.
I got home from work today and fired it up, just to see what would happen, and each time it loaded to desktop, I got hit with a BSOD, each time with different stop codes, ranging from "reference_by_pointer" to "system_service_exception". I ran the windows memory diagnostic on the RAM I have in my system now, and it showed that I had an error (though wasn't kind enough to tell me what kind and on which module...) I ran the test again on each module and each time the test showed negative on errors, so I put both sticks back in, but this time in the second bank, to test - surprise surprise, the test shows errors.
Having had the computer warmed up now for a few hours, it seems to be fairly stable, and I'm running memtest on the pair of DIMMs as we speak. The tests are so far showing negative on errors.
I'll upload the stack dumps as soon as it's finished testing the RAM (I'm on my laptop atm) but in the meantimes, what are your initial thoughts? Chipset errors on the motherboard that stops it running correctly in dual channel mode? Dead RAM? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave.
System spec: AMD Phenom II 955 3.2GHz, 4GB Geil Black Dragon 1333 RAM (2x2GB), Asus M4A88TD-M EVO/USB3 motherboard, 1TB SATA Samsung HDD, 2x LG DVD-RW (IDE), Asus 5770 ATI graphics card and a 700watt PSU.