No... Not OC'ing at all... I wanted to get the system up and stable before touching anything... BIOS settings are at default... except for minor things like boot order, on-board AC'97 disabled. No timing/voltage settings were touched!
Well.. I finished my testing last night (early this morning) around 5am.... I had everything working fine with two sticks of Crucial DDR266. When I swapped in my Corsair DDR400's, it ran okay too! I was playing around with drivers/updates for 20-mins.... then I decided to install a game to excercise the cpu/gpu a bit... I installed Generals... and that ran well... But after a while, it reseted itself again!!!! Went to bed right after that... going to try more testing tonight after work... but I'm getting pretty tired from lack of sleep.
So, here are a few observations/questions:
-When the random resets occurs, I hear the hard drive click, as if right after a power-on.... normally, when a computer performs a soft reset (start->shutdown->reset), you don't hear the initial click from the hard drive, right? With this observation, I'm assuming that somehow, the power supply has caused the reset by not supplying enough power?? A sudden cutoff in power?
-How much current does a P4 and Radeon 9500 draw??? I'm using an Enhance 430W?? power supply.... are these any good?! I have a Sparkle 300W, but I thought that may not be enough... I may swap it out.... but I'll probably buy an enermax or something in the 500W range. Stopping by Fry's after work and getting the best (or close to the best) PS I can find....
-Anyone with problems/success with these (or similar) parts? I assume they're a pretty common combination: P4 2.4B, Gigabyte 8qs800, Corsair, 2 sticks of Corsair CMX256A-3200 XMS3202v1.1 (256MB/DDR400) running in dual channel (128-bit) mode, Sapphire Radeon 9500, Western Digital 120GB Special Edition, Lite-on 48x12x48 CD-R.