System crashing???

[FastGame]

My experience with the Nforce2 boards is that they need a good power supply and are at times picky about ram.

You say that you tested the ram so I guess that meant things like running Memtest 86 or Prime 95 and they both ran error free ? did you try the ram in different banks ?

Floppy drives can go bad and cause a crash on bootup floppy seek, disable the floppy & test.

Cold boot problems are usally caused by the video card or a not so good motherboard bios.

If your crashing in Windows I would be looking into the software that caused the crash, the ram or the video card.

Go to >Start >My Computer >Properties >Advanced >Startup & Recovery >Settings and under System failure uncheck the box *Automatically restart*, now when you crash you should get the error message instead of a restart....that should help in finding the problem.

Go to Start > Acessories > System Info > Hardware Resources >IRQs and see if anything is sharing a IRQ.

On the A7N8X go into the bios and disable all the onboard perf's that your not using.