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Genun

08-19-2004, 12:59 AM

My board just drives me insane with constant freezing. I'm running SETI@home, winamp, IE, anti-virus, and in 5 to 30 minutes it freezes.

I've tried a few bios-settings, but none of them are helping, i've tried CPC on/off, tried to in- and decrease voltages..........ah i didn't try all settings on/off but i'm out of ideas.

What should i do to stabilize the system?

btw i have the latest bios flashed in (at least i think so, nothing is for sure in this mobo), and the latest nForce drivers installed.

Before you'd ask, yes, i have a crappy psu and rams but they've been working fine in my previous mobos, the msi k7n2 delta-l, and the asrock k7vm2.

:help:

Thanks in advance.

Bennah

08-19-2004, 07:10 AM

Genun

08-19-2004, 09:11 AM

You will have poo in here saying I told you so ;) Get Folding@Home going, help out our team :grin:

I found that my psu f0cked me up in my A64 rig, it was rated at 450w but poor quality, running more than 3 programs caused it to blue screene and sometimes freeze, keeps doing it.

Can you borrow anyother psu to try out for a few nights to see if it gets better? You would be better off buying a quality psu really ;)

Well don't shoot but i'm folding for the Hungary team. :P

No offence i really like this forum but my home country is more important. :)

Maybe if it worked like at seti@h, whereas anyone can work for any team but their points are also added to the country team, i'd surely join InsaneTek.

Ah, yes i need a better psu but no one of my homies have a better psu....all codegen, nonames..........

Anyway i have 3 256 ram sticks, 2 'samsung' and 1 noname, i've removed the noname and it didn't freeze since that, but i'll run folding all night and i'll see if it freezes or not........hope not.

Damn with 512 mbs Farcry loads a century long! And it swaps lots of data on the hdd, really annoying.

Bennah

08-19-2004, 10:14 AM

Yea I hear ya about your home country, we understand...

Its best to have identical sticks of memory or very simliar sticks, personally I wouldnt mix sticks...

Genun

08-19-2004, 10:55 AM

Yea I hear ya about your home country, we understand...

Its best to have identical sticks of memory or very simliar sticks, personally I wouldnt mix sticks...

Yea thought about that but there was no prob with the rams in the msi, that's why i put the noname into the the new board aswell. Well, guess i better get some nice rams, 2x512 at least. Maybe kingmax. Ah, whatever.

Thank for the advices, Ben. :wave:

Bennah

08-19-2004, 12:09 PM

How much do you have to spend around on the memory? Kingston Value Ram is usually good.

Genun

08-19-2004, 01:26 PM

How much do you have to spend around on the memory? Kingston Value Ram is usually good.

I'm low on dough. Buyed the mobo and next week i'm a goin to a concert. :rockout:

Yeah heard good things about the valueram......but my pipedream will be the Kingmax 500........ah i'll see how much cash i'll get at xmas. :D

poiuy223

08-19-2004, 01:41 PM

the kingmax is a waste of money. heres what you should do. sell your lanparty, get the infinity if you must go DFI, get a better psu, and get better memory

Bennah

08-19-2004, 01:59 PM

Get some Kingston Value Ram and a Raidmax psu, check it out in our reviews / articles section...

And XMAS, its a long time till then....hopefully, I would be on the Darkside with a P4EE / 6800U and Mach II GT by then :grin:

poiuy223

08-19-2004, 02:06 PM

HAHAHAHAHA. with the cost of that system i'll buy a cheap car for my girl

Genun

08-19-2004, 02:23 PM

the kingmax is a waste of money. heres what you should do. sell your lanparty, get the infinity if you must go DFI, get a better psu, and get better memory

Look: if id sell the lp, that wouldnt be enough, need to sell psu, rams, cooler, the cpu, then id need a psu, a board, a good cooler, rams.....maybe an axp-m...lol and then i could OC but that's just crazy.

Im intending to sell the rams, the psu, and get a pair of cathode tubes, better rams, and a better psu. Thats it, over for at least another year or somethin. im tired of feeding this throw-in-your-money pothole....id rather :hatecompu

Hell its getting late over here. Hard to write in english...bye......... :wave:

Genun

08-20-2004, 01:56 AM

So ive run the rig all night, when i woke up there was no signal output to the monitor. So it froze or somethin. :crazy:

There's a nother issue: eighter the music stops playing or the mouse stops and doesnt want to move. Its a Logitech mx310, on usb. WTF is the cause of this??

Anyone?

ill try to set the rams to single channel maybe thatll help. :shrug:

Genun

08-20-2004, 03:19 AM

Seems to run stable now......ill run a 20x loop of 3d03 and thatll surely confirm the stability. :)

Bennah

08-20-2004, 04:19 AM

Run prime95 for a stability test.

Genun

08-20-2004, 12:20 PM

Ive run a 30x loop of 03 and it didnt freeze or crash. :thumbsup:

Ill try prime too, maybe tomorrow.

Bennah

08-20-2004, 02:23 PM

3D Mark 03 is more gpu dependant, does'nt test the cpu not much, prime95 will so you if its stable or not ;) Try running SuperPI aswell, 8MB test...

Genun

08-21-2004, 08:51 AM

3D Mark 03 is more gpu dependant, does'nt test the cpu not much, prime95 will so you if its stable or not ;) Try running SuperPI aswell, 8MB test...

ok, ill run prime today. Torture test, right? App. how much time will it run?

Ill download superPI too.

Btw i see you're benchin an mx440 on an A64 rig.....how's it goin? :D Got to 10k yet?

Genun

08-21-2004, 12:27 PM

Ive run prime for like...3 hrs now, i think its stable. :)

Maybe ill run an 8m PI too.

Genun

08-23-2004, 08:52 AM

Wow, ive managed to stabilize the stuff with 768 mbs, prime doesn't freeze. :rockout: