- Feb 23, 2007
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Here's my story - had a Core 2 Duo E6600 + AsRock motherboard, couple of SATA drives, 2GB RAM, and an Antec TruPower 380W power supply.
Upgraded to Vista, and got stability problems (crashes in Vista) due to the onboard graphics on the motherboard. Bought an X1650 Pro, but didn't fix the stability issues
So I went out and purchases Asus P5E-Plus motherboard and 4GB Corsair RAM (prt number approved by Asus).
Fitted all together, and installed Vista.
After havingit working a few days and testing with Orthos (stable), I decided to overclock a little. I didn't change much - the PC wouldn't boot past 360MHz FSB, and wasn't stable at that, so I put it down to 350MHz with 1.45V Vcore. No other changes.
Stable at 350MHz on Orthos.
I tried running the Sisoft burn-in wizard and left it, and the PC had crashed in the morning when I checked it.
Restarted it and it was ok, but the PC rebooted itself a couple of times (in the event log is the error 'Unexpected shutdown at 11:59pm). Since then the PC got worse, and on boot said "Failed overclock". So I set it back to stock, but Vista wouldn't get passed the loading screen, and didn't load in safe mode either.
So I've tried now reinstalling Vista, but it doesn't get past the loading screen in Vista either.
So it seems like I have a hardware problem.
But I don't know what.
What should I investigate?
The only thing odd with my install is that my power supply only has an ATX power connector, and the motherboard ATXv2, so the plug is connected only to the first 20 pins (no second 12V rail). This should work ok. But it's possible this is causing the issues. The power supply should be plenty powerful enough (18A 12V line).
The other possibilities I guess are that I've fried my motherboard, my CPU or my graphics card.
Any suggestions what to do?
Upgraded to Vista, and got stability problems (crashes in Vista) due to the onboard graphics on the motherboard. Bought an X1650 Pro, but didn't fix the stability issues
So I went out and purchases Asus P5E-Plus motherboard and 4GB Corsair RAM (prt number approved by Asus).
Fitted all together, and installed Vista.
After havingit working a few days and testing with Orthos (stable), I decided to overclock a little. I didn't change much - the PC wouldn't boot past 360MHz FSB, and wasn't stable at that, so I put it down to 350MHz with 1.45V Vcore. No other changes.
Stable at 350MHz on Orthos.
I tried running the Sisoft burn-in wizard and left it, and the PC had crashed in the morning when I checked it.
Restarted it and it was ok, but the PC rebooted itself a couple of times (in the event log is the error 'Unexpected shutdown at 11:59pm). Since then the PC got worse, and on boot said "Failed overclock". So I set it back to stock, but Vista wouldn't get passed the loading screen, and didn't load in safe mode either.
So I've tried now reinstalling Vista, but it doesn't get past the loading screen in Vista either.
So it seems like I have a hardware problem.
But I don't know what.
What should I investigate?
The only thing odd with my install is that my power supply only has an ATX power connector, and the motherboard ATXv2, so the plug is connected only to the first 20 pins (no second 12V rail). This should work ok. But it's possible this is causing the issues. The power supply should be plenty powerful enough (18A 12V line).
The other possibilities I guess are that I've fried my motherboard, my CPU or my graphics card.
Any suggestions what to do?