Well that was just a suggestion from the OCZ guy. They memtested fine at 2.1 and 2.0 so the memory can be ruled out.Originally posted by: phile
Originally posted by: olaf
I set the vcore to 1.350 and left the mem voltage at 2.00
I was able to complete the Prime95 self test finally and havent had a BSOD yet. Also I left memtest on all night, no errors. So I think it is safe to say that if there is a hardware problem its not the memory. I still feel like something is wrong though, with one of the components. I just dont know which.
If you can't run the OCZ Platinums at their rated 2.1v, yet they are stable at 2.0, I'd be suspicious of the PSU.
-phil
Originally posted by: desk003
phile: I know you posted this once in here, but I've looked all over this and can't seem to find it. Since you have the same proc,mobo, and ram that I'm gonna recieve soon, I'd like to try your exact OC settings, after I burn in and do the cooling mods. Could you post your settings again please? Thanks very much.
Originally posted by: olaf
Well that was just a suggestion from the OCZ guy. They memtested fine at 2.1 and 2.0 so the memory can be ruled out.Originally posted by: phile
Originally posted by: olaf
I set the vcore to 1.350 and left the mem voltage at 2.00
I was able to complete the Prime95 self test finally and havent had a BSOD yet. Also I left memtest on all night, no errors. So I think it is safe to say that if there is a hardware problem its not the memory. I still feel like something is wrong though, with one of the components. I just dont know which.
If you can't run the OCZ Platinums at their rated 2.1v, yet they are stable at 2.0, I'd be suspicious of the PSU.
-phil
The problem is that in order to get any kind of stability I have to set memory to 2.0 and vcore to 1.35. Everything else stock, no FSB overclocking, no memory overclocking. And its still not really stable, I still get BSODs they are just rarer. It will run Prime95 and not error. But playing WoW last night I got 2 BSODs in like 5 hours. Whereas before I was getting them within 15 minutes or so trying to run Prime95. And the BSODs are very generic 'Page Fault in Non-Paged Area'/win32k.sys. I tried to debug the crash dumps and according to MS its either memory/cpu/mobo/psu.
I am 99% sure its not Windows. I am 99% sure its not the vid card. I dont think its the CPU. It seems like it has to be either the mobo or the PSU.
I am going to try and RMA the mobo and the PSU. Will Asus cross ship? Anyone know? PC Power and Cooling will I believe, I had a problem with a PSU of theirs once a long time ago and they next dayed me a new one.
olaf
Originally posted by: olaf
Same issues with the different PSU. So I guess that points strongly to the problem being the motherboard.
Originally posted by: olaf
I have disabled most of the stuff in BIOS I am not using. 1394 controller, audio, LAN2, etc. all disabled. I have the Jmicron stuff disabled, I am only using the intel SATA/IDE controllers. I have legacy USB disabled and have 4 USB ports enabled. I also took off the wireless module. I have 2 SATA drives one on SATA 1 and the other on SATA 3. I have 2 IDE devices, a drive and a DVD burner on the same IDE channel, drive is set to master, DVD to slave.
I have a USB KB and Mouse connected, a NIC, DVI connection to LCD. The soundcard (XFi Music) is in currently but I tested with it removed and with an Audigy 2 and that didnt fix anything.
The BSODs only happen under load. During prime95 stress testing or when playing games...of which the only game I have played on this comp is WoW. I have Oblivion installed but I havent messed with it.
I have CoreTemp installed and it reads 53/53 under extreme load, dual Prime 95s running one per core. Idle is low 40s.
PC Probe II, the Asus app says 38C for CPU under load and 37C for the mobo.
Originally posted by: olaf
Yeah pretty much. Basically set mem volt and vcore to auto (if I have them at 2.00 and 1.35 respectively then the machine is stable for longer but it will eventually crash) and then run prime95x2. It will either just reboot after about 15 mins or it will BSOD. When it BSODs it dumps the memory and when it comes back it generates a report that I sent to MS. Then it opens a link to a vague explanation of what they think caused it but they have no ideas. They are a little different each time and generally blame cpu/ram/mobo/psu or a device driver than cannot identify.
Now I did do the heatsink stuff described in this guide http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106563 Do you think Asus or my retailer will give me ****** about that? I can easily reattach the wireless module but the tops of those heatsinks are gone.
Originally posted by: desk003
phile: thanks for that info. I can't wait for it to arrive. Sad thing is, It's not my system, but my uncle's. Ah well, I get to set it up and play with it.
olaf: do report back to tell if they give a ****** about that. Personally I'm waiting to make sure the board is good before I'm doing those mods, just in case there is something wrong and they void the warrantee, but i wouldn't know why, as it's not like you're doing anything that could HARM the board. You're actually helping it.
Also, once I do the new thermal paste and such, I bought a couple 40mm fans to stick on the NB and SB, for the hell of it, because it's shown combined to drop the temp of each around 10ºC. Which is awesome, and totally worth the cost of the $6 fans.
Originally posted by: mikepaul
I think the poor job I did of installing the stock fan is why my temps START at 50c and climb rapidly from there. I noticed I'd smudged the pre-applied paste, but didn't think it'd have that much effect.
So my Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro is due later this week, and I picked up the Arctic Silver 5 from CompUSA on Sunday.
What's best to clean off the 'dried' paste from the CPU and whatever comes pre-applied to the Freezer?...
Originally posted by: Pahonix
Are the drive cables that come with this mobo satisfactory? I'm going to be putting in a 150gb raptor sata, 500gb wd sata, an IDE lite-on dvd-rom, an IDE nec dvd+-r all into a P180b. If I could do better as far as cable management, can anyone suggest appropriate cables and lengths that I could get? Rounded IDE cables sound like a good idea both from an aesthetic standpoint as well as a cooling standpoint. I have all the parts (I hope) except for the motherboard and HSF which should ship out today or tomorrow, but I'm hoping to avoid any build setbacks from not having the right accessories.