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Athlon 64 3200+/ASUS K8V Deluxe Instability
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Posted by: SID67
Hey peoples, I'm wondering if anyone here can shed some insight into my problem. I've had this computer for about 2 weeks now, but it's been plauged by random crashes, sometimes when I'm surfing, and very often when playing any games (BF, AA:O, KotOR) Crash time varies from boot, hours when sitting idle, minutes when playing a game. I've played with the BIOS until I was blue in the face, got some stability by forcing my ram to CAS3.0 from it's native 2.5, then stability when out the window and I'm relatively stable at CAS2.5, which doesn't make any sense for some reason. (even though my ram is C2.5, the "recommended" one from asus is 3.0) Anyhow, here are the specs...
Athlon 64 3200+
Asus K8V Deluxe
Antec Sonata Case /w 380W PSU
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
2x 512 PC3200 Kingston RAM (KVR400X64C25/512)
SB Audigy 2 ZS
D-Link AirPlus XtremeG Wireless card
Latest drivers for all of the above, DirectX 9.0b, CPU temperature 28C idle, 41C under full load...
Any thoughts?
Posted by: arturo238
Have you checked your CPU voltage and multiplier settings to see if they match the default settings for your proc? These problems sound like they could be caused by the auto shutdown protocol built into Asus mobos.
Posted by: Superfly3176
Try changing you CPU shutdown temp. All I know is mine is alot hotter than yours and remains stable.
Posted by: SID67
yeah, the multiplier settings are all set correctly, FSB @ 200Mhz with 10X multiplier = 2000Mhz as the processor is clocked. Core voltage is 1.50-1.55 depending on the program I check with (1.50V with Asus Probe, 1.55V with CPU-Z) and it's supposed to be at 1.50V
As for the CPU shutdown temp, I don't think there's an option for that in the BIOS, unless I'm partially bind, but I don't think it's a heat problem, mainly since it's locked up before while just running MemTest. (I've also overclocked it by 100Mhz a couple of times and only saw at most a 2C increase in temp...) Plus, the ambient temperature in my house is fairly low, 17C. I'm also using a silver-based thermal compound...
Oh, and I made a mistake, it's not crashing, but freezing (kinda makes a difference when troubleshooting...) Each freeze usually results in lots of audio static or fragments of whatever was playing last in a short loop. Screen freezes on whatever was there last.
Posted by: redwench
try running with each of the ram chips individually. one of them might be having issues.
Posted by: SID67
Thanks for the input. Didn't solve my problem, but lead to me finding a solution. What I had done was make a really stupid noob mistake... motherboard manual says to put the ram in slots 1 & 3... I put it in 1 & 2... put it in the correct slot, everthing works fine now. Thx
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