Freezing and strange temporary solution

rickfin · Feb 21, 2007

Hi! About a week ago my computer started to occasionally. First when I watching a movie and then when I using guitar pro. Orthos blend also froze my system after couple of hours but it was small ffts stable. This was @8x400. I couldn't figure out what was the problem. I had an idea and put 8x402 with same voltages and everything. And guess what it was rock solod. Orthos blend was 17 hours stable without errors and no freezes. Now after a week I'm get another freezes first in Armed assault and then in supreme commander. What could be the problem? I'm very confused more fsb--> more stable doesn't make sense. Other voltages are @ defaut except ram @2.1v. Bios is F10.

Automata · Feb 21, 2007

rickfin said:
Hi! About a week ago my computer started to occasionally. First when I watching a movie and then when I using guitar pro. Orthos blend also froze my system after couple of hours but it was small ffts stable. This was @8x400. I couldn't figure out what was the problem. I had an idea and put 8x402 with same voltages and everything. And guess what it was rock solod. Orthos blend was 17 hours stable without errors and no freezes. Now after a week I'm get another freezes first in Armed assault and then in supreme commander. What could be the problem? I'm very confused more fsb--> more stable doesn't make sense. Other voltages are @ defaut except ram @2.1v. Bios is F10.

What is your RAM divider? At that speed, it should be 1:1. Along with that, try upping your voltage a step or two to see if that fixes the stability problem.

rickfin · Feb 21, 2007

Ram is 1:1. I upped the vcore to 1.2645 but it didn't help. I think that the cpu isn't the problem because last time it was freezing I was still able to do small ffts. Maybe I should up the other voltages(FSB, MCH..)?

hUMANbEATbOX · Feb 21, 2007

most 965 mobos have a "hole" in the fsb between 350 and 400. setting to 401 gets you past this "hole".

rickfin · Feb 21, 2007

hUMANbEATbOX said:
most 965 mobos have a "hole" in the fsb between 350 and 400. setting to 401 gets you past this "hole".

Thats good to know. But now the comp is freezing with 402 fsb. A week ago it was at least 17 hours blend and 24 small ffts stable with 8x402 1.25v. What's causing this?

Automata · Feb 21, 2007

rickfin said:
Ram is 1:1. I upped the vcore to 1.2645 but it didn't help. I think that the cpu isn't the problem because last time it was freezing I was still able to do small ffts. Maybe I should up the other voltages(FSB, MCH..)?

Sorry, should have been more specific there. I meant your RAM voltage...lol :bday:

rickfin · Feb 21, 2007

thideras said:
Sorry, should have been more specific there. I meant your RAM voltage...lol

Ram is @2.1V as said in my first post.

Automata · Feb 21, 2007

rickfin said:
Ram is @2.1V as said in my first post.

...?

In my previous post I requested that you up your voltages. Have you tried upping the RAM voltage?

rickfin · Feb 21, 2007

thideras said:
...?

In my previous post I requested that you up your voltages. Have you tried upping the RAM voltage?

Oops! I read too quickly..Upping the ram voltage made to system more unstable.

Automata · Feb 21, 2007

rickfin said:
Oops! I read too quickly..Upping the ram voltage made to system more unstable.

What?! It shouldn't....can you loosen the RAM timings a little?

rickfin · Feb 22, 2007

I doubt the ram is the problem, because I can run memtest86 12+ hours without errors. I think the motherbard is causing this but ds3's nb gets quite hot so I don't want to up the motherboard voltages if I don't really have to.

inkfx · Feb 22, 2007

I found when my P5B-D NB was getting to hot it limited my OC. So I pulled off the stupid aluminum thingy that said Asus on it and stuck a 40mm fan via rubber bands on it. The NB doesn't burn to the touch anymore and everything is a lot more stable now.

orionlion82 · Feb 22, 2007

inkfx said:
I found when my P5B-D NB was getting to hot it limited my OC. So I pulled off the stupid aluminum thingy that said Asus on it and stuck a 40mm fan via rubber bands on it. The NB doesn't burn to the touch anymore and everything is a lot more stable now.

umm, heatsink = surface area. removing it is teh bad.

remounting with thermalpaste and fan, however is a good call.

or even a heatsink upgrade with paste and fan

and i can allso confirm by BT-6 did not like voltage. its not totally a wacky thing.

hUMANbEATbOX · Feb 22, 2007

orionlion82 said:
umm, heatsink = surface area. removing it is teh bad.

remounting with thermalpaste and fan, however is a good call.

or even a heatsink upgrade with paste and fan

and i can allso confirm by BT-6 did not like voltage. its not totally a wacky thing.

he didn't remove the whole heatsink, just the stupid cover that asus puts over top of it, that totally blocks all airflow into the sink.

rickfin · Feb 22, 2007

The Nb isn't hot to touch but it's warm ofcourse. My case antec 900 has pretty good air flow and I have an Antec spotcool flowing air to the nb heatsink from distance(Can get the spotcool close to nb heatsink because the tuniq tower is so big). Should I try to up the motherboard voltages?

inkfx · Feb 22, 2007

What's the stock voltage for the processor? Rereading your posts, it seems like you aren't putting enough voltage through the CPU. Try giving it some more and run Orthos small FFTs again.

rickfin · Feb 22, 2007

I can run small ffts without freezing but blend and sometimes games freezes the system. I ran orthos small ffts @8x402 1.25V(default) 24 hours without freezing and errors a weeks ago (as well blend over 17 hours) so the cpu isn't probably the problem.

inkfx · Feb 22, 2007

Hm, and you say Memtest86 passes 12+ hours. Strange. My next bet would pointed towards not enough voltage through the NB/SB.

rickfin · Feb 22, 2007

inkfx said:
Hm, and you say Memtest86 passes 12+ hours. Strange. My next bet would pointed towards not enough voltage through the NB/SB.

12h memtest session was a couple of weeks ago with 8x400. Maybe I should run it again but memory isn't probably the issue. Maybe I should add voltage to NB as you said.

Automata · Feb 22, 2007

rickfin said:
12h memtest session was a couple of weeks ago with 8x400. Maybe I should run it again but memory isn't probably the issue. Maybe I should add voltage to NB as you said.

I second the motion, keep us updated! :bday:

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