ok ... got past the restarting problem ... had to down clock my ram in the bios ... I shouldnt have to do that but with the FX-55 it may just be moving to fast for it when its clocked at 200mhz .... so I had to turn it down to 166Mhz....

Hmmm.....I had a similar problem with an old Asus motherboard. When clocked at 133MHz FSB, the system would randomly crash or programs would lock up. If I downclocked to 100 MHz FSB everything was ok. I checked the RAM with memtest86 in my system and I got a bunch of errors, but I knew the RAM was good. So I stuck it in a differnt machine and repeated the tests and no errors reported. I RMA'd the motherboard and everything was ok when I got the replacement.

What I'm getting at is I think you may have treated the symptom, but didn't provide a cure. You might want to look into the mobo as the source of the problem.

Make sure you put your memory speeds back to 200MHz and select all tests for Memtest, not just the defaults that run automatically. It's a lot more thorough that way. It might take a lot longer time to test, but it'll give you more reliable results.

I'm running an Athlon64 (albeit a Socket-754 3200, not the shpankety FX ) and I've experienced no such troubles. I know tekieB and Xankriz also have an A64.

You guys having any problems???

I honestly think it is vid

have you tried to run a video benchmark utility on it?  To see if that is what is crashing you?

Good point pride. If you want to stress test individual components (except vid card), SiSoft SANDRA is a good program to use. For vid card stress testing, 3DMark 2005 is a good stress test (and Futuremark is one of the 100ML sponsors too BTW   )

It looks like you have adequate cooling, but just to eliminate it as a possibility, check your temps too. You should be able to see your vid cards temps in the nVidia driver control panel, and everything else use Motherboard Monitor or something to check for CPU, chipset, and case temps.

I have the restart problem. I think it's a heat problem. Every once in a while I would be playing a game and the computer would just restart. But, since I installed a fan to draw more air to my motherboard and vid card it hasn't happened since. When the computer restarts, check what the temperatures are at the first loading screen. Usually on restart my system temp is around upper fifties (although it's stayed lower fifties since installing that fan). I too have an Nvidia card but it's a Geforce FX 5600 ultra.

I get have way through the XP install I get the blue screen of death with a memory dump error .... I restart my pc ...

When I attempt to play any graphical game (T:V or AA) every 15-20 seconds my video freezes and I cant move / do anything for 5-10 seconds ....

I had problems similar to these when building mine.  Instead of down-clocking the RAM to make it more stable go into the BIOS and bump the voltage to your RAM up ONE increment.  That should stablize it nicely.  Like I said... ONE increment.  I'm betting it's on auto right now?  

And as for your second problem... Did you ever successfully install Windoze without the BSOD?  BSOD during Windoze install=BAD, very bad.  I had to keep re-installing Windoze until I got through it without the BSOD for a good, solid, stable install.  Well, as solid and stable as Windoze can be anyway...  It can cause all kinds of unexplaiable problems if your OS is corrupt.

Sorry to hear about your troubles... Good luck!

PS-I have a Soyo mobo and some other gamer friends of mine have noted that they are notoroious for slightly under-powering components.  I hope this was helpful.

PPS-This is all from my limited experience!  This is what works for me! Everybody has an opinion, take them all with a grain of salt and use your own judgement.   I hope it helps you, should you decide to try it.

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Oh crap... didn't read the second page.  Killboy = n008.    You already got it fixed... Heck, I'll just leave this here anyway...

You can disable the BSOD reboot by right clicking MY COMPUTER, PROPERTIES, ADVANCED TAB, STARTUP/RECOVERY OPTIONS and UNCHECK "Auto Restart"

here is what the BOSD messsage says

***Stop: 0x0000008E (then some other address)
***nV4_Mini.sys - address ....

Wonder if this has to do with my raid setup or something

ANyone got a clue?