PC Shutdown Problems

[ultimadesigns]

your PSU blew out? thats not good

what memory did you use to test it with? make/ model/ size/ type? (corsair XMS 256MB pc3200)

Yeah, it wasn't cool. The memory I bought is Premium 512MB PC3200 DDR RAM x 2 sticks. The motherboard, by the way, supports up to 3 sticks of 1GB PC3200 DDR...

 

[ekÆsine]

thats kinda what i was afraid of that he was using the same make of ram. try a completely different make of ram if thats possible

 

[ultimadesigns]

thats kinda what i was afraid of that he was using the same make of ram. try a completely different make of ram if thats possible

That was $200 worth of RAM, and my other main computer runs PC133, not DDR...

I guess I can try flashing my BIOS, however...

 

[ultimadesigns]

Hey guys, thanks for all the help. I found the solution in another forum by Googling it.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=139513

The problem is that the nForce AGP to PCI bus drivers for a PCI graphics card cause instability in the OS.