Originally posted by: pakman916
I need some help...
Here's my setup:
Antec P180b
Corsair 520W
GA-P35C-DS3R Rev 1
Intel CD2 e4400 10x multiplier (stock at 2.0Ghz)
4GB Crucial Ballistix PC6400 DDR2 4-4-4-12 at 2.2v (this is what it's spec'd at)
2X320 Maxtor SATA
MSI 8600GT OC edition
Dual boot WinXP Pro 32bit / Vista Ult 64bit
Anyway, here's my situation. After putting everything together and loading the OS, I started to play around with OCing the cpu. I've heard good things about the E4300, E4400, etc. but I also heard some of the newer cpus aren't as good. So I started with something I thought would be easy (266Ghz FSB/2.66GHz). The stock vcore was at 1.325 and I just left it there. I set the memory ratio to what I believed to be 1:1 (2x) and the timings to the default for the ballistix (4-4-4-12 at 2.2v (+0.4v). It booted with no problems. But then I updated the WEI in Vista and I got a 4.7 score for my mem score. I thought this couldn't be right. So I started to mess with the mem settings. The only way for me to get above a 5 in WEI was to change the ratio to 1:2. This brought my score up to 5.4 (which is still odd to me)
To make a long story short, I had some random errors (BSOD, Freezing, Reboots). I thought maybe the memory was bad so I ran the mem diagnostic in vista and it found something. So I downloaded memtest86+ and after 4 hours, it found something too. So I figured my memory was bad. So I took out 2 sticks and left the other 2 in dual channel. Ran memtest again. After 6 hours, no errors. So I swapped the sticks with the other pair and ran it again. No Errors. I put all the ram back in and boot up and I get no issues running at 266FSB. So I'm totally confused now.
I ran Orthos to see if there were some other issues. No problems after 5 hours. I decided to play with the OC some more. After trying to get the mem timings right, the systems appears to be stable. I run Orthos again just to be sure. It failed after 1 hour. I ran it again just to see what would happen and it failed again after 12 minutes.
Needless to say, I don't know if I have bad memory, bad MB, bad CPU, or maybe my setup can't handle the OC. I recently reset everything to the spec settings (200FSB, 1:1 ratio, 4-4-4-12 at 2.2v) and so far orthos hasn't found any errors. I'll let it run all night and tell you what happens.
On a side note, I was downloading a 100mb file off the net, and it kept getting hung after a few minutes of downloading. I thought this was an issue with the file server so I decided to try and download the same file off my laptop. It downloaded just fine! I tried to download it again from my setup and it hung again. I ran a ping test and it came back with a small amount of packet loss, but so did my laptop. I'm wondering if that is an indication that my mobo is acting up. (on top of my other OCing issues)
Any suggestions on what I can try to isolate the problem?