XPS 720 Continuous reboot fixed?

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I had lots of good advice fro this board and I tried everything and nothing would stop the continuous reboot I started getting when I put a new motherboard in the XPS 720. As a last resort, I downgraded the bios from A04 to A02 and it seems to have made a big difference with stability. No more reboots. I had one blue screen 'memory management'. Any ideas to fix this would be appreciated. I swapped out memory 2 gig to 2 gig and downgraded memory from 4 to 2 gig but still get this blue screen. At least it is up and running more than it is down right now. I suppose I could try go up to the A03 bios and see what happens there. Obviously it still seem so like something is wrong if it won't run on A04 bios. No one knows what though.

MoneyGuyBK · Answer

This post by Dell_ChrisM might just be related. I have not updated to A04 yet, and A03 has been stable.   Peace   Just be sure to do it with

mylessthanXPS71 · Answer

i love how dell states BIOS A04 is 'URGENT'....but gives absolutely no info on 'why' it's urgent.   i luv dell

zray5 · Answer

now my problem seems to be continuous blue screens -each time with a different error message.

EviLTaz · Answer

When you have BSOD, it is most likely due to the hardware problem. Providing more details and the rig of your system would help analyze your problem.

zray5 · Answer

Thanks. I have: Dell XPS 720 - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 3.00GHZ FSB1333MHz 2 gb DDR 667 - I have 4 sticks - I have interchanged to see if memory is a problem - doesn't seem to make a difference Creative x-fi sound card - extreme game EVGA 8800GT 512MB DDR3 PCI Express 4xCD 16XDVD 500GB Sata Vista Home Premium also, I ran the Dell diagnostics full scan which took 3 days - no error or problem messages.

gdwrnch3 · Answer

It really seems these QX6850's have been problematic on these machines. I ordered one yesterday to test, along with a evga 8800gt, should be here first of the week and I will try it out.

zray5 · Answer

I had the e6750 processor which I have swapped out and still have the same issues.

EviLTaz · Answer

I'd suggest you to run memtest, downloaded from http://www.memtest.org/, for each module. Let us know the result.

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