New to the board here and need some advice. I am a very old man that quit working on computer hardware over 20 years ago.
I have a system that was built for me last year that has been giving me problems constantly. The place that built it can not fix it, so I am trying to do it myself.
I work this system real hard and I have two problems with it. One is that I am a writer and after 3 to 4 hours of writing, I can not highlight a single word in my writing program, Internet Browser or even when using a terminal. When I try to highlight a single word or letter, it will end up highlighting an entire paragraph or page, instead of simply one word. When I try to click on a tab on my browser, it will open a new blank window instead of a tab. I don’t expect help here for that problem. I am simply explaining it as a symptom of one of the problems this machine give me.
The main area I need your help with is the freezing. In Linux, I have some “magic keys” that I can normally use to save data and reboot a computer when it is acting up, however when this thing does a hard freeze, the only thing I can do is a hard power down. Even the reset button on my case will not reboot it when it freezes.
After looking at the bios, I discovered this board is set for a Dram frequency of 2133 MHz, however they installed 2-32 gig Crucial Technology chips at 2933 MHz and 2-8 gig Kingston chips at 3200 Mhz.
As I was looking at new memory, there was a very limited choice that uses 2133 MHz and back in ancient times, we had to manually change “jumper” settings on a board in order to change the frequency.
I know that on the older boards, we could change the settings for the Memory to accommodate different frequency memory chips just like it would Processor speeds, however I haven’t found out if this bios has that option or not and even if it does, I don’t want to go too high on a Dram setting, so if anyone could update me a bit on what I should buy, and how to set it, I would appreciate it.
Once I get the new memory, I may also need a little advice on some of the other settings for the new style bios.
I did notice this MB only accepts a total of 64 Gig memory, so I will most likely end up buying a new MB in the near future, however I want to correct this problem first, before I get involved with building a new system from scratch.
Thanks in advance for any advice
I have a system that was built for me last year that has been giving me problems constantly. The place that built it can not fix it, so I am trying to do it myself.
I work this system real hard and I have two problems with it. One is that I am a writer and after 3 to 4 hours of writing, I can not highlight a single word in my writing program, Internet Browser or even when using a terminal. When I try to highlight a single word or letter, it will end up highlighting an entire paragraph or page, instead of simply one word. When I try to click on a tab on my browser, it will open a new blank window instead of a tab. I don’t expect help here for that problem. I am simply explaining it as a symptom of one of the problems this machine give me.
The main area I need your help with is the freezing. In Linux, I have some “magic keys” that I can normally use to save data and reboot a computer when it is acting up, however when this thing does a hard freeze, the only thing I can do is a hard power down. Even the reset button on my case will not reboot it when it freezes.
- My MB is a 2379-A PRO (MS-7B48)
- The shop replaced my original AMD processor with a Intel© Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz × 6 CPU,
- I recently replaced my power supply with an EVGA 750W Gold and that allowed me to work for a week without a freeze, but now it has frozen 3 times in 2 days.
- I was originally running 3 storage devices, but I removed (2) 2 TB internal HDDs and (1) 2 Tb NAND chip. So now I am only running (1) new 2 Tb, HDD as a test.
- I replaced the HDD Sata cable with a new one connected to a different plug on the MB
- I unhooked my floppy drive and DVD.
- I run multiple monitors/TV sets and use a NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] that I plan on replacing.
- I have 2 other systems in my office that both run the same version of Linux that I run, and neither of them have the problems freezing, however I do run some software that the other systems do not use.
- I conducted a fresh boot last night and started a program that will “index” all the words in every doc on my HDD, so I can search them. I shut down my browser and even the monitors when I went to bed, but left the computer running that index. It ended up freezing within an hour after I went to bed.
- I just started checking the bios for data and discovered the shop installed two separate types of memory chips. This is where I am now, as I want to replace the memory. But I need some input on what to use and how to set it.
After looking at the bios, I discovered this board is set for a Dram frequency of 2133 MHz, however they installed 2-32 gig Crucial Technology chips at 2933 MHz and 2-8 gig Kingston chips at 3200 Mhz.
As I was looking at new memory, there was a very limited choice that uses 2133 MHz and back in ancient times, we had to manually change “jumper” settings on a board in order to change the frequency.
I know that on the older boards, we could change the settings for the Memory to accommodate different frequency memory chips just like it would Processor speeds, however I haven’t found out if this bios has that option or not and even if it does, I don’t want to go too high on a Dram setting, so if anyone could update me a bit on what I should buy, and how to set it, I would appreciate it.
Once I get the new memory, I may also need a little advice on some of the other settings for the new style bios.
I did notice this MB only accepts a total of 64 Gig memory, so I will most likely end up buying a new MB in the near future, however I want to correct this problem first, before I get involved with building a new system from scratch.
Thanks in advance for any advice