• CPU Upgrade, Vista Freezing
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Upgraded my CPU from an E8400 to Q9450. Specs: [B]MoBo:[/B]P7N Diamond (780i) [b]RAM:[/b]4GB DDR2 800MHz, 5-5-5-18 at the moment. [b]CPU:[/b] Q9450, stock [b]GPU:[/b] 9800GX2, stock The freezing occured once or twice before the upgrade too, actually. Most prominent when running a game. Changed RAM timings to 4-4-4-12 and 2.1V, as Corsair recommends, froze almost instantly. Changed timings and voltage to Auto, froze while loading desktop. CPU idles at 55, maxes at 65 in TF2. Not great, but it'll have to do while I get a new cooler. Going to swap around my RAM sticks now, see if that stops the freezing. Then I'll remove one, if it freezes I'll swap it with the other. If it still freezes I'll stick both back in and run MemTest, any other suggestions greatly appreciated, as I'm heading out to i37 LAN tomorrow.
Just restore all default settings in the BIOS and see what happens then. If that fails try reinstalling the OS? I don't really know.
Swapping the RAM sticks suddenly made the Motherboard refuse to even POST. Removed the stick I think might be faulty, I'll update later. I'll restore default settings and try the Optimized settings too. [editline]05:42PM[/editline] Still no crash from TF2. Going to swap in the other RAM, might be the RAM slot that's the culprit. [editline]05:54PM[/editline] Yup, faulty stick of RAM.
It's back, and this time it's not the other RAM. (I checked with MemTest). These are the facts, put as simply as I can: [list] [*]Good airflow in case, and using Noctua NH-U12P with MX-2... [*]However, CPU idles at 47-50C across cores according to Core Temp. [*]However, my BIOS (MSI P7N Diamond, v1.2) says it's idling at 28C. [*]Running Prime95 small FFT's, system completely freezes at Test 3, but CPU doesn't go over 65C. CPU heatsink is cool, and the northbridge isn't so hot that I can't hold my finger on it for a while. [/list] What the hell could be the problem? Which temperature reading is accurate? Could faulty sensors be causing the CPU to lock up the system? Is the whole CPU faulty?
My core temp does the same.The cores are a different temperature then the CPU. Download and use Hardware Monitor and post what temps you get from that up.
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Yea coretemp is pretty accurate. Hmm I cant think of what can be causing the problem.
Doesn't have to be the hardware.. Might be a virus.
Clean install, so no.
How long ago did you do a clean install?
Yesterday.
Do you have any anti-virus installed? Doesn't hurt to try a scan. Are you on the computer that's freezing now?
Yes, and it's not software related. It happened on Vista, it's happening on Windows 7. Software is not the culprit.
[QUOTE=User.;16500203]Just restore all default settings in the BIOS and see what happens then.[/QUOTE] .
Don't you think I'd have done that already? :downs:
what type of corsair ram is it?? (IE: budget, dominator, Ect.) EDIT: have you updated to the latest BIOS?? EDIT2: List of RAM tested by MSI, check if your exact type of Ram blocks are there: [url]http://www.msi.com/uploads/test_report/TR10_1372.pdf[/url]
[QUOTE=Van-man;16622009]what type of corsair ram is it?? (IE: budget, dominator, Ect.)[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showpost.php?p=16620576&postcount=4[/url] Ignore the first 3 posts.
I dropped my RAM ([url]http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX.pdf[/url]) timings to 5-5-5-18, and downclocked it from 800MHz to 667MHz. This stopped the crashing during Prime95. However, there's still the issue of temperatures. CoreTemp, RealTemp, Hardware Monitor all report idle temps of ~51C and load temps of ~65C. HOWEVER, MSI CoreCenter, which I presume takes readings from the BIOS, shows idle temps of ~28C and load temps of ~40C. What?
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