Hi,
I turned on my PC today to get a loud beep, to then restart and find this error message on boot (CPU fan and low power CPU heatsink are normal):
So I tried taking the end DIMM out and then I got this:
It then tried to boot, crashed and then booted again with no errors and went into Windows - I got about 2 minutes in Windows before it froze. I then unplugged the PC and plugged it back in, booted it and got this Windows recovery:
So finally I restart using the button on screen, it boots with no errors and so far for around 30 mins I haven't had it freeze again.
My specs are as follows:
It is a very *jerry-rigged* PC, it started as a normal quad core 10GB ram HP Z400 workstation (http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01709671#N10013), I then added a 780TI with a secondary PSU configured in the same way as Austin did his in Scrapyard Wars 3 (2nd PSU with paperclip in 24pin only connected to GPU), added a Be Quiet! Shadow Rock 2 cooler and lost 2 sticks of RAM due to failure making it 6GB RAM. Here is a picture:
The RAM, however I am completely unsure of. I think it is ECC RAM and it is DDR3, here is a picture:
What I now want to try and work out, is if I need ECC RAM to go along with the existing 3GB of working ECC RAM, or I can mix and match ECC and non-EEC or if I can replace all the ECC ram with non-ECC RAM and see if that works? Thanks guys!