Heyas, I'm new here.
My new processor has been causing problems. The entrie system is running at spec speed, and nothing is or ever has been overclocked. The system frequently dies, briefly flashing a BSOD before restarting. From what I can read in the brief time it is on the screen, the errors are identical to those experienced by the user in forum post http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=3376. Running memtest86 on the system results in memory errors throughout the entire range of addressable memory.
I thought this was a memory problem, and bought a stick of Infineon chips on Infineon stick memory, only to find that exactly the same error would occur, regardless of what combination of memory I had installed (Inf/OEM/Inf&OEM). I then noticed that the errors only occured in the tests which utilised the processor cache, particularly test 1. It generates about 150 errors in one pass of the memory! Strangely, the error is always identical, the value stored to memory is increased by exactly 0x00002000, e.g. 0x80808080 becomes 8080a080, or 0x00000000 becomes 0x00002000. I disabled the L1 cache in the BIOS, and all the problems vanished. Unfortunately, my system is now slower than a 386. My question is if this is now due to a faulty processor (which tends to run quite hot btw, 45-60) or if the motherboard or power supply is to blame.
I have of course tried different swapping the memory sockets, swapping graphics cards (PCI & AGP), removing the processor and cleaning it and the heatsink with medical alcohol and reapplying the thermal compound, etc, etc.
Please let me know what you think about this so that I can resolve this issue ASAP. Thanks and hi from Germany, Leon
AMD AthlonXP 2400+ (128/256)
ASUS A7V266-EX (1011 BIOS)
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB (ELSA)
2x 512MB DDR266 CL2 RAM (Infineon/OEM Limbus)
Codegen 300XX Power Supply (350W)
Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 (Rev. 2)
My new processor has been causing problems. The entrie system is running at spec speed, and nothing is or ever has been overclocked. The system frequently dies, briefly flashing a BSOD before restarting. From what I can read in the brief time it is on the screen, the errors are identical to those experienced by the user in forum post http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=3376. Running memtest86 on the system results in memory errors throughout the entire range of addressable memory.
I thought this was a memory problem, and bought a stick of Infineon chips on Infineon stick memory, only to find that exactly the same error would occur, regardless of what combination of memory I had installed (Inf/OEM/Inf&OEM). I then noticed that the errors only occured in the tests which utilised the processor cache, particularly test 1. It generates about 150 errors in one pass of the memory! Strangely, the error is always identical, the value stored to memory is increased by exactly 0x00002000, e.g. 0x80808080 becomes 8080a080, or 0x00000000 becomes 0x00002000. I disabled the L1 cache in the BIOS, and all the problems vanished. Unfortunately, my system is now slower than a 386. My question is if this is now due to a faulty processor (which tends to run quite hot btw, 45-60) or if the motherboard or power supply is to blame.
I have of course tried different swapping the memory sockets, swapping graphics cards (PCI & AGP), removing the processor and cleaning it and the heatsink with medical alcohol and reapplying the thermal compound, etc, etc.
Please let me know what you think about this so that I can resolve this issue ASAP. Thanks and hi from Germany, Leon
AMD AthlonXP 2400+ (128/256)
ASUS A7V266-EX (1011 BIOS)
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB (ELSA)
2x 512MB DDR266 CL2 RAM (Infineon/OEM Limbus)
Codegen 300XX Power Supply (350W)
Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 (Rev. 2)