jst42daytoo
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The reason I asked is because some motherboards come with built in memory management utilities that support different types of overclocking. It seems that in some instances this feature is on by default, and if you are not doing any type of overclocking can cause symptoms similar to yours and just turning the feature off in the bios will sometimes solve the problem. I checked but couldn't find any details as to what features yours has. But I did notice that there is a very recent BIOS update on Gigabytes site for your board, as well as a not very old chipset driver. Not sure how much further you want to go with this but I would suggest, that in a lot of cases having the latest drivers and bios firmware for your hardware devices is generally a good idea, so I provided the link here GA-EP45-UD3LR (rev. 1.0) - GIGABYTE - Support&Download - Motherboard - Driver but first I would suggest perhaps, looking into the bios configuration and see if there is any such built in memory management utility that you can turn on or off. I know on certain Asus motherboards it's called XMP mode, but I'm not sure if Gigabyte has it or what it's called, just some thoughts.I've got a Gigabyte EP45UD3RL, E8400, 4 G's memory that I just tested tonight-they passed, NVidia 8600 video card and Windows 7 Pro 32bit, version 6.1.7600 build 7600.
I have used Revo to uninstall Adobe Flash and Shockwave player, CCleaner to clean up after it, installed latest version of Flash and checked everything I know how to do. Which isn't much.
I've also used NIS 2010 full scans, Prevx3 scans and Hitman Pro scans. The pc is clean of infections.
One thing I have noticed is that this problem seems to be affecting quite a few pc's.
I suspect a system problem because of the different 'cures' people are trying and nothing seems to be a cure all.
Thanks for any help.
J
I just wasn't sure if you wanted to pursue the bios and chipset updates, you'd actually probably be suprised at how many people just decide to just put up with the problem and don't want to be bothered with some of the alternatives offered in these forums. Keep us posted and let us know if the updates worked or if the problems is still there.Trouble,
The BIOS are the same as when I put the pc together. There have not been any changing things around other than to be able to boot from cd as first boot option. The white screen of woe has started recently.
I installed the BIOS and driver updates. Thanks for the link.
It might take another day or two before I could tell if I still had any problems.
You said you didn't know how much further I wanted to go.
This pc isn't usable with an occasional white screen lockup/major slowdown.
What else should I do?
Thanks.
J