- Joined
- Mar 25, 2003
- Location
- Tucson AZ
Hi all,
First some backstory, since I haven't posted on here in quite some time and I'm kinda bored right now.....
I built the rig below for a buddy back in '09 and he has used it over the last 4 years running stock with Windows XP without any issues. Every year at Christmas, his wife gets a computer part and I install it for him. First year was a new DVD/RW, second was a new Radeon 5830 card and this year was a new Phenom X4 955. Everything ran fine until this last weekend.
A bunch of us talked him into buying Black Ops 2, which he did and installed. None of knew that it wouldn't run on XP, so it had all kinds of errors. We talked him into upgrading to Windows 7, which he did and installed. Then the problems really started. Crash boots, freeze mid load, freeze whenever it felt like it.
The OCZ RAM failed memtest in about 30 seconds, so I'm thinking it was good enough to run XP and surf the web, but couldn't handle a new OS and heavier load. I didn't know that OCZ quit making RAM in 2011, but they honored the lifetime warranty with a refund. Thanks OCZ.
Once I got the new Mushkin Silverline RAM installed, it passed memtest with flying colors, however it had multiple issues on Windows 7 startup and during games when I tested. Orthos ran overnight too, no issues.
I decided to go ahead and update the Bios from 1.30 (original) to 1.90 (newest) and the problems got worse.
The Bios defaults a lot of the settings to auto, but they are overvolting the CPU (1.45) and RAM (2.2v instead of 1.8v). The memory timings were way wrong too. I manually set the memory timings and CPU voltage to stock settings.
Does anyone have experience with this Bios for other settings that would still cause freezes? They are still happening, but not as frequently. There has to a setting off in the Bios, but I'm cooked and can't figure out what it is. CPU and HT settings are Auto with multi at 16x @ 3.2ghz.
I realize I'm chasing stuff down the rabbit hole with a 4 year old rig, but all the gear is solid, so I hate to see it act like this!
Any help is appreciated!
Original rig:
Athlon 64 X2 Brisbane 5400 (unknown temps)
onboard video
2x2Ghz OCZ platinum 1066 DDR2 (dual channel mode)
WD black caviar 640
Windows XP Pro SP3
As of today rig:
Phenom X4 955 BE (37c idle, 51c load)
Radeon HD 5830
2x2Ghz Mushkin Silverline 800 DDR2 (dual channel mode)
WD black caviar 640
Windows 7 32-bit (all updates loaded)
First some backstory, since I haven't posted on here in quite some time and I'm kinda bored right now.....
I built the rig below for a buddy back in '09 and he has used it over the last 4 years running stock with Windows XP without any issues. Every year at Christmas, his wife gets a computer part and I install it for him. First year was a new DVD/RW, second was a new Radeon 5830 card and this year was a new Phenom X4 955. Everything ran fine until this last weekend.
A bunch of us talked him into buying Black Ops 2, which he did and installed. None of knew that it wouldn't run on XP, so it had all kinds of errors. We talked him into upgrading to Windows 7, which he did and installed. Then the problems really started. Crash boots, freeze mid load, freeze whenever it felt like it.
The OCZ RAM failed memtest in about 30 seconds, so I'm thinking it was good enough to run XP and surf the web, but couldn't handle a new OS and heavier load. I didn't know that OCZ quit making RAM in 2011, but they honored the lifetime warranty with a refund. Thanks OCZ.
Once I got the new Mushkin Silverline RAM installed, it passed memtest with flying colors, however it had multiple issues on Windows 7 startup and during games when I tested. Orthos ran overnight too, no issues.
I decided to go ahead and update the Bios from 1.30 (original) to 1.90 (newest) and the problems got worse.
The Bios defaults a lot of the settings to auto, but they are overvolting the CPU (1.45) and RAM (2.2v instead of 1.8v). The memory timings were way wrong too. I manually set the memory timings and CPU voltage to stock settings.
Does anyone have experience with this Bios for other settings that would still cause freezes? They are still happening, but not as frequently. There has to a setting off in the Bios, but I'm cooked and can't figure out what it is. CPU and HT settings are Auto with multi at 16x @ 3.2ghz.
I realize I'm chasing stuff down the rabbit hole with a 4 year old rig, but all the gear is solid, so I hate to see it act like this!
Any help is appreciated!
Original rig:
Athlon 64 X2 Brisbane 5400 (unknown temps)
onboard video
2x2Ghz OCZ platinum 1066 DDR2 (dual channel mode)
WD black caviar 640
Windows XP Pro SP3
As of today rig:
Phenom X4 955 BE (37c idle, 51c load)
Radeon HD 5830
2x2Ghz Mushkin Silverline 800 DDR2 (dual channel mode)
WD black caviar 640
Windows 7 32-bit (all updates loaded)