Kernel Panic on every other Boot

[Middleman]

Guys,

Could it be a defective RAM, CPU or motherboard? As that's usually the case which causes a KP (assuming you have a stable setup and have run Permissions Repair on your drives). Try downloading the Memtest86+ ISO, burn it to a disk and running that on your system to test your chips and see what comes up...

 

[cunning plan]

Thanks for your reply and suggestion Middleman.

I will try this when I have finished the current project I am working on and post back. Ironically, a RAM upgrade is on my shopping list. 4GB just doesn't seem sufficient anymore when you have Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Steam, VLC, Thunderbird and multiple Chrome tabs running!

 

[kid_idioteque]

I'm going to buy new RAM because I did notice on my previous build I had some problems (though not as prevalent) start around the time I got my current RAM. I'll update when I've installed it.

 

[kid_idioteque]

I forgot to mention that I had to change my baseclock on the machine to 100.10. I had random freezing/crashing issues and I had read that was a good solution for this MOBO. Could that cause KPs on startup?

 

[kid_idioteque]

For anyone following this thread, I decided to buy some new RAM (Corsair Vengeance 2*4GB) and now the freezing has gone away completely. Looks like it was RAM afterall, despite having ran memtest without issue. We should be good to close this.