Would raising VIO help me solving this problem?

[coolnicklee]

I overclocked my celeron and temperature seems pretty good for 895Mhz... 24C idle and 31C while I play Unreal Tournament...
The problem is the computer reboots itself about 15 minutes after I start Unreal Tournament...
I raised the voltage up to 1.8V and I got locked up at windows boot.. Should I raise the VIO? Would that help?

 

[Tetsuo316]

raise the voltage.

 

[stockjock]

I agree, sounds like a voltage problem...raise it...

 

[coolnicklee]

Could it be video card problem?
Cause I ran burn-in cpu program and ran fine for 5 hours...
But when I try Unreal Tournament and 3DMark... It reboots...
Could it be video card? Can video card be the bottleneck?
I have Matrox g400 Dualhead 32M

 

[Tetsuo316]

no. that's a great card. different burn-in programs stress different parts of the cpu. raise the voltage.

 

[Steven the Leech]

Raise the voltage

 

[pillage2001]

Did you overclock the VGA card?? If not, just raise the voltage.

 

[Spindler]

definitely do what EVERYONe is suggesting and raise the voltage!!!

i ran prime95 and cpu stability test fine on my system for 8 hrs but as soon as i started playing diablo2, it'd lock up or shutdownreboot after about 10 mins. and diablo2 is not that cpu intensive of a game even.

raised voltage by half a volt and that fixed the problem really quickly.

 

[they call mr big]

I had the same problem with my 566 at 850, fine at 1.75 but couldn't play any 3d games, everyhting else was fine, so lefted the voltage to 1.85 and now completely stable

 

[coolnicklee]

This is weird..
I raised the voltage to 1.8v and I can boot up to flash screen of windows 2000
and I get locked up... with 1.75 volts everything is fine except the reboot problem...
Would raising VIO to 3.5volts help to resolve this problem? When do I raise VIO anyway?
Why do I get locked up at flash screen of windows2000 with 1.8 volts?

 

[nape]

HOLY CRAP SPINDLER! Raised it by half a volt!?!. Haha I know you mean .05v or at least I hope you did. .05v = 1/20th of a volt. Later

 

[Dexion]

coolnick, it sounded like a voltage problem for sure. However when you switched to 1.8, It leads me to think that the CPU might be overheating at this point. And the rebooting/freezing may also be caused from overheating. What kind of heatsink and thermal compound(if any) are you using?

 

[Tetsuo316]

need to know:

what hs/fan are you using on the cpu?
are you using a thermal compound between the cpu and the hs/fan?
how long ago did you build the sytem?
have you checked to see if the thermal compound is dried out?
do you have an intake fan in the front of your system?
do you have an exhaust fan in the rear of your system?

your cpu shouldn't overheat at default voltage, so you might have an airflow problem with your system.

 

[coolnicklee]

I have intake and exhast... one each and one from power supply...
I am using Alpha heatsink and delta 38CFM fan...
I do use thermal compound and it is not dried out yet... It is just regular thermal compound though.
Wold raising VIO help me out to stablity?
And my MB only support up to 1.8V for CPU...
Any solution???

 

[Tetsuo316]

i really don't know about the i/o voltage. you might want to edit the topic reflecting your new questions and someone might be able to help you. just EDIT your first post and you can change the title that way.

 

[lhampel]

Try this....go to the display properties/effects & uncheck "Animate windows, menus and lists"
LMK if that doesn't solve the problem

 

[paulip88]

3.5v for VIO should not be too much, since these new Asus boards come at 3.58v. However, this is a different chipset so there is not guarantee.

Have you considered whether this may a driver problem? Seems possible since it only comes up in UT.