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- Sep 27, 2003
So I'm helping out another business owner. He built this gaming machine for a client and it's randomly rebooting:
-eVGA x58 micro
-i7 920 stock cooler
-Antec 650w earthwatts (also tried another PSU)
-Vista (have to check which version)
-3x2gb Patriot DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24 1.65v (also tried a corsair 1600 set, identical specs)
-evga 9800gtx
I came to his office and I see a GTX260, a 9800gtx, a Seventeam 850W PSU that he also swapped with and tried.
So I come in here an tried the machine with the corsair ram and loaded optimized defaults, which set ram to 1066.
I ran small FFT and it was going fine for at least I'd say 30min, checked up on it every 10min, and the last time I came back it was in windows desktop with nothing running (obviously rebooted).
I downloaded evga's leet OCing software and all 4 cores were in the high 70s. Also, I placed a nice big blizzard fan blasting over the whole system, b/c originally the NB and SB chipset heatsinks were SCORCHING HOT to the touch... but once I placed this fan over the system, they seemed fine.
I checked the PSU with a DMM and it's well within spec.
I'm still working on this, but any quick pointers out there? I've NEVER touched an i7 system before...
-eVGA x58 micro
-i7 920 stock cooler
-Antec 650w earthwatts (also tried another PSU)
-Vista (have to check which version)
-3x2gb Patriot DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24 1.65v (also tried a corsair 1600 set, identical specs)
-evga 9800gtx
I came to his office and I see a GTX260, a 9800gtx, a Seventeam 850W PSU that he also swapped with and tried.
So I come in here an tried the machine with the corsair ram and loaded optimized defaults, which set ram to 1066.
I ran small FFT and it was going fine for at least I'd say 30min, checked up on it every 10min, and the last time I came back it was in windows desktop with nothing running (obviously rebooted).
I downloaded evga's leet OCing software and all 4 cores were in the high 70s. Also, I placed a nice big blizzard fan blasting over the whole system, b/c originally the NB and SB chipset heatsinks were SCORCHING HOT to the touch... but once I placed this fan over the system, they seemed fine.
I checked the PSU with a DMM and it's well within spec.
I'm still working on this, but any quick pointers out there? I've NEVER touched an i7 system before...