Parhelia bluescreens - please help...

[raschi]

Hello.
This is my very first post to the MURC Forums.

I have had quite a few seemingly random bluescreens lately saying that the Parhelia is the problem.

Well it´s not just bluescreens, but also spontaneous reboots.

To be more specific:
with winxp pre sp1 I get bluescreens
with winxp post sp1 I get spontaneous reboots
and now with a fresh win2k sp3 I get the bluescreens again...

Sometimes it happens when I open certain web-pages
Example: When I open

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?threadid=36253

and try to scroll it I get a bluescreen every time

sometimes it happens when I open explorer or try to open a video file

I´m using the latest drivers drivers for everything...

My specs:
Matrox Parhelia 128 Bulk
Abit KG7-RAID Motherboard
AMD Athlon 1400MHz
512 MB DDR RAM
SB Live!
Logitech iFeel Mouseman
Pioneer DVD-ROM
PlexWriter 24/10/40A
2x Western Digital 80GB
2x IBM 40GB
Chieftec Dragon Fulltower w/340W power-supply

[thop]

hmmm this smells like a flawky memeory stick to me rather than a parhelia problem but i might be all wrong.

i call the BBz for help. to the batmobil!

[K6-III]

Sounds like it could also be the power supply....

[DGhost]

or the processor...

or the motherboard...



i would bet power supply too..

what brand is the power supply?

[Cobos]

Just to try to rule out one thing I would try www.docmemory.com and see if that finds any problems... If not I too would try with another PSU or try disabling some of your disks and optical units...

Cobos

[P5ycho]

Personally i give every stick of memory a www.memtest86.com treatment before using them in my machines.

[UberLord]

Originally posted by P5ycho
Personally i give every stick of memory a www.memtest86.com treatment before using them in my machines.

I'm dubious about that program.
I know that one of my memory sticks is flaky as the machine reboots 3 mins after playing any game with it in, but works fine without.

My other memory stick works fine - no reboots.

However, that program (and a few) think that the stick is perfectly OK

[Peter Aragon]

Could it be that the timings of the two sticks are different and the hang only occurs when using them both extensively? Are there any tools out there that test those cases?

[P5ycho]

yes, your fingers: swap the sticks

[raschi]

Hmm, when I was using winxp pre sp1 with the previous parhelia drivers I also got the bluescreens, but when I installed sp1 the problems went away - both bluescreens and spontaneous reboots. Wouldn´t this suggest that there is a problem with the newest driver?

The power-supply is Chieftec...

[DGhost]

Originally posted by raschi

The power-supply is Chieftec...

Chieftec manufactures the cases, not the power supplies. it should be a Raidmax, Enermax, Turbo Power, SPI, Channel Well or Antec if you got a bundle and are lucky. if not it could be any power supply out there... there should be a sticker on the power supply itself that will tell you manufacturer and model, is there any way you could post those?

[raschi]

The only sticker I found said:

Chieftec
Model: HPC-340-201

However I couldn´t find it on this page:

http://www.chieftec.com/products/psu/PSII%20PSU.htm

[Wombat]

Where'd you get the case? Power supplies are the component that sleazy vendors often replace with a fraud.

According to that model number, your supply is from a company called High Power. It looks like they are often sold in combination with Chieftec boxes:

http://www.highpowersupply.com/product-ps-hpc340201.htm

http://www.arena-chieftec.de/Accessories/accessories.html

[raschi]

I got it from www.komplett.no (norwegian)

[Maggi]

Re: Parhelia bluescreens - please help...

First off:

Welcome to the MURC !




now secondly

Originally posted by raschi
I´m using the latest drivers drivers for everything...

that is not exactly a precise information, so please be so kind and post revision numbers of system relevant drivers (chipset drivers, directx, sound card, parhelia etc.) and what settings you are using.