I have been running my computer with a Gigabyte k8ns pro mobo for about 8 months. Suddenly the 400W PSU died and I had to replace it with a "higher quality" 350W one and replace the mobo that it took out with it with an MSI k8n Neo. Before this event the computer was stable as a rock. After this event I have been plagued with MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTIONs and random restarts that happen in graphics intensive games, when I exit some of these games, and when I am just in windows using (of all things) a simple pop up menu (this can be any windows menu including Quick Launch and the Start Menu). I have been fighting this problem for weeks and have only found leads as close as http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6142-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=100279&messageID=1151969 which describes my problem but doesn't give me a solution and http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php/t4882.html which also gets close to my situation but doesn't give me a solution. If anyone has ANY ideas PLEASE HELP! I've been smashing my head against a wall over this problem for 3-4 weeks now. Anyone that can fix this will be my hero! THANK YOU! Athlon64 3000+ ATI Radeon 9800Pro 256Mg 3x512 Corsair ValuRAM DDR 400Mhz 120 Gig Samsung SATA HD 60 Gig IDE HD

Ohh and the MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION is followed by: STOP: 0x0000009c (0x0000000000000004, 0xFFFFF800004F5BC0, 0X0000000B2000000, 0X0000000000070F0F) and the error report that I filed told me that it was a Hardware Failure most probably the CPU. Does anyone have any clues of what I should do if it is the CPU? Do I actually need to buy a new one? Athlon64 3000+ ATI Radeon 9800Pro 256Mg 3x512 Corsair ValuRAM DDR 400Mhz 120 Gig Samsung SATA HD 60 Gig IDE HD

I have also found http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/134325.html The problem also decreases in frequency when I only use 1Gig of my ram instead of 1.5 gigs of my non-ECC PC3200 Corsair ValueRAM (3x512). Would the problem be my non-ECC RAM like the above article might suggest or would it be a problem with my CPU? Any help would be a godsent thanks... Athlon64 3000+ ATI Radeon 9800Pro 256Mg 3x512 Corsair ValuRAM DDR 400Mhz 120 Gig Samsung SATA HD 60 Gig IDE HD

My first thought concerns the use of a 350w psu even though it may be a "quality" unit, 350w is cutting it short. sLLs

yeah I was thinking something along those lines too actually. Do you have a source for me to check how much wattage things take up, because I haven't quite been able to find a good one. Thanks a lot for responding =) Athlon64 3000+ ATI Radeon 9800Pro 256Mg 3x512 Corsair ValuRAM DDR 400Mhz 120 Gig Samsung SATA HD 60 Gig IDE HD

Here are some rough estimates: Power Supply Demands: COMPONENT WATTAGE Motherboard 15-30 Low-end CPU 20-50 Mid to High Range CPU 40-100 RAM 7 per 128MB PCI Add-in Card 5 Low to Mid Range Graphics Card 20-60 High-end Graphics Card 60-100 IDE Hard Drive 10-30 Optical Drives 10-25

Though I think power may also be a tangential issue, I think the problem more has to do with the CPU because that's what the error message says and because I swapped out the RAM with a friend and the problem still persisted. I've made another post at http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=47121&st=0&p=419034& if you want more details. Thannks for responding again. Athlon64 3000+ ATI Radeon 9800Pro 256Mg 3x512 Corsair ValuRAM DDR 400Mhz 120 Gig Samsung SATA HD 60 Gig IDE HD