Memeory, Video card, which is failing

[bigdaveberg]

Ok so i have been having memory issues with stick 2 in bank1. But recently my dad out a little space heater in the room because the temps were low as hell. and then ofcourse my pc temps went up to 43c or 107F abouts for everything, tooo high for me.. but anyways why i minimize wow now the pictures stays  on the screen even though i windws+d, and sometimes windows aero warning will say i do not have enough system resource to do this.
Now i will be RMAing the memory stick 2 to gskill. but correct me if i am wrong this has all the signs of bad memory and not video card.
Will be rerunning memtest and prime95. any other good memory testing utilities?

I also am ordering soon another 4 gig kit if gskill is good about the RMA

[absic]

Hi,

It does sound more like a memory problem but I would advise RMA'ing both sticks of RAM as it looks from your specs as if you bought it as a matched kit.

[Badbonji]

Run Memtest 86+, if it comes up with errors while testing (test one stick at a time etc) then it is the RAM, otherwise it could be another component.

Anything overclocked? Try running defaults.

[bigdaveberg]

Kk. Will take that into consideration. Rmaing both depends on how much my paycheck is, because honestly I cannot be without my pc. Other than that I will need to find a liquid cool kit or something because winter, temps low heaters high heat, bad pc environment. Any good budget minded kits. I know off topic but I told prime to stop because temps were hitting 60c ....to high for me...
 I rather not get a self contained kit.
But what I want to do is keep temps down near the 30c or lower.. No higher than 33c. If a coolit would do it or h70 then please tell me. Trying to o this on air with an ambient temp up near 80f or more is not fun..

Nope no over clocking all regular settings.

[Dark Mantis]

Don't forget however you decide to cool the system whether it is by air or water you will at best get the tempertures down to even a few degrees above ambient in the room so if your room is too hot you have problems.

[bigdaveberg]

Okay, so now WOW is not doing that. and my total memory is listed at 4095mb with 2285mb available with 1696 free. before it said 4095mb total and 1908 available with  only 13 free.....

I just went through an reseated the memory and tested each stick per slot. I did notice that with this motherboard you have to have atleast a memory modual in slot 1 or else it will not boot. Is my assumption correct? Because i let memtest run for 14 hours, no errors and prime ran for a while nothing wrong. I did how ever remove a cold cathode light kit and noticed my temps went down to 37c, I did check fan connections the works.
The question now is when i checked the memory and put it back in stick 2(th one i thought is bad) the end facing the PCIE16 slot was up a very small amount, enough to let the system boot, and be reconized but not usbale, i think. I currently now have 4093 total  memory, 542cahce,3094 available and 2616 free.

My system is now booting on first button press. Atleast this time after i took out the cold cathodes(were not on at all during this incident). And reseated the memory. Could this issue have been from possible bad cold cathode kit(had to super glue power connector in because cord pulled out from factor) and memory seated off a smidge. Again, i only powered on the system once so far(atleast to get on  into os and post this) and it went no issues.

[bigdaveberg]

Please see above post after i modified it.

[bigdaveberg]

Okay so i just rebooted 2 times and it did the issues i was talking about were it would not load on first go.
Now i recorded a a succesful boot from cold and a no boot from cold then reset to boot.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/499/7wq.mp4 ---------------No boot, with reset boot
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6669/uhh.mp4 ---------------Boot without reset
the no boot video is fuzzy but you can se what it is doing. It is rando when it happens now. I thought maybe it was a mouse keyboard issue, so now before i go i will move the mouse and keyboard into different usb(the ones near the ps/2 port) and then make sure onboard video is disabled...


EDIT 12:46am

Now i did run hijack this just to poke around and this is what i found...
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3444/hijackthiserror.png
An error with the boot, record....hmmm... I know this isnt an infection forum, but i wonder....Damn norton 2011, work...gahh..

maybe this is causeing alll my errors

[bigdaveberg]

Okay i got it fixed. It was ...drum roll please...MBR.EXE virus, that no scanner even caught. it took me hours i had to write a special script and....just joking combofix found and removed it, but alas they did not fix the boot issue. So i reinstalled with AHCI set to sata ports 1-3 done