Originally posted by: cpmee
Originally posted by: JWalker55
Originally posted by: cpmee
Originally posted by: JWalker55
I just recently rebuilt my system with this board and am having some lockup issues in XP.
My system is:
Asrock 4CoreDual-Sata2 Bios: 1.60
Core 2 Duo E4500 Allendale
1 GB (2x512 MB) PC3200
eVGA GeForce 7600GT 256 MB PCIe (Forceware 169.21)
Creative SB Audigy 1 w/front bay (onboard audio is disabled)
160 GB Seagate IDE
80 GB Hitachi IDE
40 GB Western Digital Sata
Samsung 16x DVD burner
Cyberhome 16X DVD burner
Enermax 460 Watt PSU
So far lockups seem random. It's only happened twice so far, but I know it will happen again in the future if I don't figure out the cause. The first lockup was in the middle of a game (NASCAR 2003). The 2nd was after I brought BeyondTV out of fullscreen mode back into windowed mode, then hit Live TV. In both instances I heard strange static/popping for a few seconds, then the system completely froze. One thing that concerns me is that I have noticed that the 12v rail is down in the 11.4 range, and occasionally dips down to 11.3, according to speedfan. BIOS shows 12.076v
Aside from those issues, performance seems pretty good. I have run this board in Vista, but didn't run it long enough to see any issues. I may just end up getting a different board along with memory.
Random lockups can point to memory. Have you run memtest86+ for at least a few hours ?
Yes, Speedfan voltage readings are off from bios readings and from meter readings. CPUIDs new Hardware monitor reports voltages that are close to meter readings.
Did you also disable the onboard midi and onboard gameport ?
The memory was taken from a perfectly stable system, but i've yet to run memtest on it.
I'll probably get some DDR2 eventually.
onboard midi and gameport are disabled.
Yeah, run memtest86+ for a few hours. Ram can be picky. Just because it runs flawlessly on one system doesnt mean it will on others.
In both instances I heard strange static/popping for a few seconds, then the system completely froze.
See if you can isolate where that noise is coming from. PSU maybe ?
Sorry, I should've clarified. The sound is coming from the speakers/sound card. That happened the first 2 times, haven't heard it since. If it were coming from my case, I would've tore it apart and diagnosed it right there.
I was finally able to get it to throw a BSOD, and ran the minidump through the debugger. It references nv4_mini.sys. Going to uninstall and reinstall another set of drivers and run memtest. I understand about memory compatibility issues.