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Could Motherboard cause artifacts and memory errors?
Hello,
I bought used parts and built a computer.
- Intel Core i5-760
- Asus P7P55D
- OCZ Gold 8GB (4x2gb) DDR3 PC3-10666 CL9
- Saphire Radeon HD 6850
- Enermax Liberty 400Watt PSU ELT400AWT (Video Card just consumes about 120 Watts)
- For now I use HDMI cable not DVI to connect to a monitor.
First thing I got after turning computer on were artifacts, I thought Video Card is broken, but that's not only problem I have. I couldn't even install Windows because I got memory errors.
So I removed RAMs one by one. What I noticed is -
- With one RAM in slot 2 or 4 I could start computer and install Windows
- With pair of RAMs in slot 2 & 4 I could start computer and memtest didn't find any errors
- In any combination either one or in pair in slots 1 & 3 I couldn't start computer there wasn't even a beep.
- With all four RAMs I couldn't install Windows, memtest found errors and on installed Windows sometimes I get Blue Screens with Memory_Management 0x0000001a error.
On Windows with installed ATI drivers I get even worse artifacts and Video Driver stops working constantly. Doesn't matter in what combination I have RAMs (except slots 1 and 3).
I'm thinking to replace broken hardware, but I'm not quite sure which part is broken (maybe even more than one). I don't have chance to test hardware on an another computer.
Broken might be -
- Motherboard
- Video Card
- PSU
- RAMs (but after tests I don't think so)
I think broken is motherboard, just too many bugs at once.
Could this all caused by Motherboard? And should I try to replace it first?