Barrel of Errors - Please Help - Hardware & Software

Well, I'll start from the beginning. I have built my own computer. Here are the specs, or at least those that are relevant. OCZ Gold DDR3, 1333 3x2GB RAM. (Lat 9-9-9-20. (Unsure what this means.)) Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R. Intel Int Core i7-9302800 2,89Ghz Quad Core. Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. It's a very new computer. Not even over a year old. However, ever since the beginning, I had to warm boot it to get all the RAM allocated. If I booted it after it had been turned off for a good while, BIOS POST would only show either 2GB or 4GB allocated, just like Windows. So, in mid-POST, I had to switch it off, wait for the fans to power down, then turn it back on, and bam, all 6GB allocated and accounted for. Everything ran smoothly, no problems. At this time, I was still running on BIOS version F.A, the first version. However, after about a year or so, I checked the Gigabyte website, and it said that in F.C, DDR capabilities had been upgraded. So I figured it was time to upgrade my BIOS. I flashed it to F.E, their latest, non-beta version. I no longer had to warm-boot. All 6GB was allocated instantly, and things ran smoothly for about three days. But on one morning, just after Windows booted, it came to a blue screen. MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, was the error. Since this was my first BSOD, I just restarted, and yet, it popped up again, this time with: ERROR_PAGE_IN_NON_PAGE_AREA Since these problems started after the flash of my BIOS, I did some searching online, and found that F.E wasn't very stable on some machines. So I downgraded to F.B. No luck. Blue screens kept popping up. The errors I've seen, aside the two listed above. PFN_LIST_CORRUPT KERNEL_ERROR (Something of this nature. Unsure.) IRQ_LIST_* (Something like this. This blue screen dissapeared really quickly, so I couldn't get the rest.) Vista Service Pack 2 refuses to install. It gives an unknown error. Host Process keeps crashing. Programs or games will quit at random, showing NO errors. They just dissapear, like I never started them. Tests and fixes I've performed: Windows Diagnostic Tool found no memory errors in my RAM, with all 6GB installed. Booted this from a DVD. chkdsk /f C: found four critical page errors in my HDD. It fixed them, and I re-tested. The errors no longer showed up in this second test. Re-installed Vista to a completely clean version. Backed up all my data to a USB External HDD. (Not really a fix. But at least I won't loose data.) Now, after ALL this, I'm figuring that it must be hardware related. Tough point is, I can't just send my RAM/Motherboard/HDD over to where I bought it. If it's not in those parts, they charge 60 bucks research costs. If anyone has the answer, which results in my computer working again, I'll be more than happy to [B]offer a small Steam game as a token of my gratitude.[/B] Around the price of 10 bucks or so. [editline]22nd January 2011[/editline] Additions: What I do know for sure, is that all the hardware is compatible. A colleague at work has the exact same build, and for him, everything works just fine. I have also examined the hardware, and found no visible cracks/faults/missing golden panels/dirty connection points. It also seems to grow worse whenever I turn it off and back on again. Two days ago, after I down-graded my BIOS, it ran for two solid days. I installed Steam, L4D1/2 and TF2, and played TF2 with a friend of mine yesterday, for the whole day. I turned it off today, and there come the errors again.

are ventilos on ?

Ventilos? What do you mean by that?

Sounds like memory problems, run memtest for a few hours and post results

Good idea. I'll do that tomorrow. I just need to figure out how to make memtest86 as a bootable DVD.

[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;27591931]Ventilos? What do you mean by that?[/QUOTE] My bad, i mean fans.

Yes. I've checked the internal temperatures, and everything is fine. I've ran Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool outside of Windows. It doesn't show any errors, with all 6GB checked. [editline]25th January 2011[/editline] Does any one understand memory timings/custom BIOS settings I may need to set for this to work?

I do for 9-9-9-20 those are the settings you need to set in the bios the cas and what not. You usually don't need to set these that's why you only have 4 there are really more but the ram tells the bios the timings. What you should do is go into the bios and be sure to find those timings under ram if you don't you need to look up the rest of the timings and set them manually. One of the timings are called CAS I can't report on what the rest are called (posting from iPhone) but that's a place to start.

Right, I've run Memtest86. Here are the results. Intel Core i7 2834 MHz. L1 Cache: 32k - 94458MB/s L2 Cache: 256k - 37286 MB/s L3 Cahce: 8192k - 27781 MB/s Memory : 6142M 11566 MB/s Chipset: Core IMC (ECC Disabled) / BCLK : 134 MHz / QPI : 4.8GT/S Settings: RAM : 539 MHz (DDR3-1079) / CAS : 8-8-8-19 / Triple Channel ____________________ TST - Pass - Failing Address - Good - Bad - Err-Bits - Count - Chan 6 0 <Address> <Adress> <Adress> 12881 If I'm seeing this right, so far, 12881 errors have been detected. It's been running for 11 minutes now.