Brian Hanks wrote:
> When I got home last night, I had a chance to look into this more
> thoroughly. It turns out that it was a memory related issue. When I ran
> memtest I was presented with a whole host of errors. This was a bit strange
> since this motherboard has been rock solid for over a year. That's when I
> noticed that the motherboard was detecting the CPU incorrectly and
> consequently setting the memory timing incorrectly. It doesn't make sense
> to me that this just started to happen out of the blue, but it did.
>
> It's an Asus A7V880. Anyone else every see anything like this?
Memtest doesn't just test the memory -- it tests the motherboard, the
CPU, and the cache. If your CPU was being overclocked, then that could
have been the source of the memory errors.
Do the memory errors go away when you reset everything to normal?
James.
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