Blue Screens and Random Reboots

Jason do you both a sound chip and a sound card? If so, disable the sound chip rater than uninstall it.

jason786 said:

Ok, I ran Prime95 for a while, and it stopped after 11 minutes and there were no errors detected on any of the cores

I then tried the signature checker, and while running it I got a blue screen, I'll try running it again

I've just read through he entire thread, as mentioned it appears to be a hardware issue.

Prime95 should not just stop on it's own.

You also said you had the computer built, was this at a local shop?

When you loaded the new BIOS, what where the settings?
What BIOS version do you have now?

Is the FSB still at 1600?

Tell us what the BIOS CPU and RAM settings are.

Then set BIOS to defaults, then let us know what the FSB is set at, Vcor or CPU voltage, multiplier, RAM voltage and timings, etc.

Did you set Speedfan to record the voltages as Stormy suggested?

Re-seat you RAM, graphics card, HDD connections, and all PSU connections.
Double check the MOBO power connections, look all around the MOBO for possible grounding points.

This might be caused by a bent pin on the processor, but let's check all of the BIOS settings first.

Prime95 should run until you stop it, unless you set it differently, run it again on standard settings, for at least an hour.

Check you MOBO manual, you can D/L it from the ASUS website, look at the BIOS section, check the default settings against your actual settings.
Look for any overclocking settings, for the CPU, GPU and RAM.

Sometimes these won't run correctly at even default settings, if the RAM is borderline under or over volted you can get intermittent error/BSoDs.
If the MOBO default voltage is 1.6v and the RAM requires 1.5v or 1.65v this could be the culprit.
Check if the RAM you have is listed on the MOBO compatible RAM list.

Ask your shop to run the tests they recommend and to check the CPU for bent pins.
A bent CPU pin can cause these kind of problems.

There's always the possibility of a bad MOBO.

Dave- if Prime95 quit on its own, it means there are errors with the CPU.

Yes, He mentioned that it quit and showed no errors, which made me think something wasn't right.

Can you D/L CPUZ and post the CPU, Memory and SPD tabs.

What is the brand and part number of your RAM?

Edit:
Found it:

The sticks are Corsair branded, DDR2, 800mhz

It was a twin pack, 2x2GB modules and both sticks say XMS2 on them, not sure what that means

The serial is TWIN2X4096 - 6400C5 G

I'll do some checking.