PT880 Neo-FSR P4 3.2G with HyperX HELP

I have been reading the forum for 2 days now and I'm still unable to find a solution to my problem. I have tried every suggestion I've found in this forum with no success. So, as a software dude I'm not the best hardware guy and I'm requesting help from any hardware guru in here.
Problem:
PC reboots constantly or locks up or blue screens this started after I loaded WinXP pro SP2.
Setup:
PT880 Neo-FSR (7043)
P4 3.2G
Kingston HyperX KHX3200A/512R
SATA 250GB HD
Tried Solutions:
1. Changing DRAM voltage ranging from 2.6v - 8v (problem got worse or persisted)
2. Tried running in different turbo modes. (problem got worse or persisted)
3. Tried changing DRAM clock to all kinds of settings.. (problem got worse or persisted)
4. Did not try changing any DRAM timing cause I'm not sure of the effect...
5. Upgraded BIOS rev to 2.0 in hoping to fix the issue. (no effect on problem)
6. Will contact Kingston next week for recommendations.
Thanks in advance for any help suggested besides purchasing new RAM

Have you tried update the VIA drivers?

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I just installed this motherboard which I purchased on eBay from someone who swears it was working fine before.
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RaidMax Scorpio case with a 520-Watt RaidMax Power Supply (its older, but digital P/S tester says everything is OK)
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I have tried defaulting BIOS several times, tried several configurations for boot sequence and using F11 Boot Menu. No matter what I do, booting from CD is hit and miss (1 out of 4 times will boot) and it will NEVER boot from the hard drive.
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Ummm... never had that trouble before... It should at least start booting, or at least recognize the boot sector has a valid boot record.
Those are all valid ideas, and I appreciate the input.
BTW, I am not a newbie. I am a telecom, network, and computer technician with almost 20 years of experience. This is just the first time I have had a problem with MSI boards, I use them all the time and they generally work flawlessly. I understand operating system licensing, OEM versions, 32 vs 64 bit, and how to copy files from one drive to another using multiple different ways. I was just hoping that there was something simple going on that I was missing that someone would just say "Yeah, turn XXXXX feature off in the BIOS".
I put an older 48x CD-ROM drive and a Western Digital 40 Gig in it and it worked beautifully, in the middle of installing Kubuntu Linux right now.
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I think I actually had two problems with the previous setup:
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MSI PT880 Neo-FSR http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=608
As read on the topic subject, I'm having trouble trying to boot up using my new SATA DVD-RW. This device works perfect while running Windows XP on my PC, but when I try to boot from it, I simply can't.
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Quote from: Henry on 03-September-08, 14:26:24
Are you saying it does work but you simply can't boot from it? Have you tried by using the F11 boot menu?
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Originally posted by Del UK
Hi,
17Amps on the +12V rail..............
Buy or borrow a PSU with 30+Amps on +12V rail or go for dual channel...........
Your system is drawing to much power through the+12V rail and you are hearing this.........
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I considered that too until I saw phishingtime's sig:
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Thats really nice! The board is a 533 thats oc'et... :(
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https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=79880.0
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P4 3.2GHZ EE
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1) Tested Memory (memtest86 latest version as of this posting)
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Jeez, i know just what you mean.
I play...er, try to play World of Warcraft. Every 30 minutes or so, i'd get a game crash and a WoW Error Message. The message read, "memory error" which I later learned from their forums was referred to as "memory dump". I figured Blizzard rushed the game out and left some flaws behind in the process. Then the crashes became more and more frequent until the game finally became pretty much unplayable. i then decided to download Microsoft's Memory tester.
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My Friend brought his PC (a bargain basement eMachine) to my house yesterday and I decided to mem test my Corsair memory on his PC. Sure enough 10 passes, with 0 errors. So I ran the larger memory, the 1024s...again 0 errors. I ran his memory for fun 0 errors. Switched PCs. Ran the mem test on HIS memory in MY pc, 5 errors. My Corsairs in my pc, 3 errors. My 1024 in my pc, 7 errors.
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I recently build my first computer (specs in sig) and am currently having issues with my system rebooting during any gameplay that utilizes my graphics card. After 4-5 minutes of gameplay my game will freeze for 10 seconds or so and then my monitor will lose signal and my system appears to reboot but never actually reboots. In BIOS my cpu temp appears to be running in the low 50s C and case in the high 40s C though Motherboard Monitor shows a steady cpu temp of 44-48 C and a case temp of 34-37 C. While this would appear high to me, I don't believe it is the culprit as I have used fairly cpu intensive apps in XP without any crashes or reboots.
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Halflife2 single player: Played for 10 minutes, no crash
Halflife2 multiplayer: Played for 15 minutes, no crash
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Starwars Battlefront single player: crashed 30 seconds in, game froze and monitor signal was lost
Starwars Battlefront multiplayer: played for 10-15 minutes, no crash
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory multiplayer: played for 10-15 minutes, no crash
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No luck on entering BIOS or getting graphic screen to clear.
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