Hello, my brother got a GA-7N400-L about a month ago. During game play the screen will blink white and finally crash. XP claims it was caused by the video card (leadtek a250 ultra td my vivo ti4600). I then proceeded to put in different video cards. All of which do the same thing. Next I changed out the ram to make sure that wasn't causing it, no luck with that either. I've messed around in the bios also with no luck. However I found if I brought the fsb down to 100 (athlon 1100) everything ran fine. If i bumped it up to 133 (xp 1900) it would start happening again (his proc is a 2500+ @ 166fsb). His temps are fine (30-40C) I noticed the south bridge was kind of hot so I put a chipset cooler on it. Made no difference whatsoever. I even reformatted the computer hoping it was some kind of driver issue. This computer HAS worked for about a full month it JUST started doing this 1 week ago. As you will see bellow he has a stick of pc2100 in it along side pc2700. I have taken this stick out and the memory bus speeds run at 133 natively.
Here is one of the various errors windows gives him; "Computer restarted after a unexpected shutdown." (no der
) "Microsoft windows detected a possible device failure" (you don't say) "The driver for the display device was unable to complete a drawing operation. Please check with the device manufacturer for a driver update."
Now I have tried the 44dets and the 45dets along with using dx8 (what the game uses) and using dx9. I've also tried different games on it such as WarCraft 3. No change....
GA-7N400-L
xp 2500+
1x 512 corsair pc2700
1x 256 corsair pc2700
1x 256 generic compaq ram pc2100
Leadtek a250 ultra td my vivo ti4600 - tested also with g3 ti500, fx 5600
2x Cdrom/Cdrw
1x WD 40gig hd
The 2 256 sticks run in the first two slots (closest to the proc) the 512 sits in next available slot (orange one). But again I've changed the ram around even put different ones in there. The only new things on this system is the stick of 512 corsair the vid card the proc and the mobo, the rest has just been transferred over (other stick of corsair was purchased and installed while still using the compaq).
PS stats
Duro 400W
3.3v | 5V | 12V -5V | -12V | +5vsb
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28A | 30A | 11A 0.5A | 0.8A | 3A
He originally had the compaq PS from the last case it was a 300W, once this blinking started going on I put in this PS to see if it would help (It obviously didn't).
Thank you for your time, I hope I gave you enough information. I've been racking my brain for a while now trying to figure this out any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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