Barton 2500 on 7N400 Pro reboot problem

[mrEvil]

Okay, what am I missing here? This 2500 keeps rebooting the system if I run the UT 2k3 Botmatch benchmark or Sandra.

Items of interest:

(1) The CPU ran Sandra through 50 times on my Asus 7V333
(2) The 1800 I have ran Sandra for 2 hours on the 7N400

The 7N400 Pro only has 1 512MB stick of Crucial PC2700 and a GF3 Ti500 card in for testing.

The 7V333 had 2 256MB sticks of Crucial 2100 in it, along with a GF2 Mx, Audigy, NIC and the Leadteck Winfast TV2000.


I obviously do not think it is drivers and I do not think it is the CPU itself. The only difference between the two is the obviously larger size of the heatsink on the 2500. I am pretty sure it is not an overheating issue because the crazy thing will (sometimes) reboot after 1 or 2 iterations of Sandra. To test for this, I am crippling the cpu down to 133 FSB and running through the UT Bot demo script 6 or 7 times.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Crucail 512mb Pc2700 has or had known issues w/ Nforce 2 chipset motherboards you prob. need to Exchange your memory w/ Crucial to get it to work properly. Hope this helps....

 

[mrEvil]

Arcancedeath - thanks...and I just found that out. It runs fine at 133mhz....craps out at 166mhz. Ran prime and got the boot right away...funny, my Kingston KVR PC2100 is running prime fine @ 166mhz FSB.

 

[Gamingphreek]

I am having that same problem on a different M/B. I have heard that it is memory problems. Also Nforce 2+Any Creative Labs card is not good. Try new memory and if you have a creative card then move it around on the PCI slots.
Best Luck
Kevin

 

[mrEvil]

It's definitely the memory. Got an RMA from Crucial. To quote from the guy at tech support: "We had 12 different model of PC2700 chips and 4 of them do not work with the nForce2 motherboards."

I will probably be putting my Audigy2 into my nForce MB, but it should not pose a problem as I believe it is slot 5 that shares the AGP IRQ, if memory serves me correct. Should be no different than where I have it in my KT400.

Thought people might find that quote from Crucial interesting, because I know I did. I almost wanted to ask why a motherboard should make a difference if it is PC2700 and I am trying to run it at 166mhz. Also consider the fact that all my Crucial PC2100 runs fine at 166.

Now I just need to find one of the Crucial boxes I have lying around....