stability

[sandman001]

Alright, my system is in sig. Today, It wouldn't post at 2400mhz where I run it every other day. So, I clear the cmos, and go with stable settings.

Well, stuff on my screen was messing up, like Off to the side of an icon, you would see like another half of the icon real faintly. Then, everything turned a shade of red for like 1/2 of a second, and then I got a blank screen.

Everything was at stock, except the 9500, which was at 351/311 which really isn't that much of an overclock. It's not softmodded.

My voltages were 3.26, 4.86, and 12.46

WTF is up?

[sandman001]

and now when it does this the psu gets pretty warm in only about a minute's worth of time.

[stool]

I'd start to suspect the video card is crapping out(or perhaps too far OC'ed). Just last week I had a GF2 MX go bad, and during diagnosing the problem, it killed the PSU.

[sandman001]

hmm....alright, I just tried it with an old video card (TNT2), and the same thing happened. But, I noticed that the monitor plug thing was missing two of the pins. Could that be what it causing the problems?

[stan03]

ummm yea if the monitor thing is missing pins i would expect troubles.... were you not using this monitor before?

[sandman001]

I was, but I don't know when it lost the pins.

[sandman001]

meh, pretty much figurred out that it is either the processor or mobo. My geuss goes to mobo, just since they all seem to hate me.