Bazillions of C2D questions. :P

[CountryEvil]

Before anyone asks: Yes, I've trolled the forum for answers. Yes, I read the FAQ's. No, this is not my first system to build, nor my first to overclock. Yes, it's the first where I'm *really* paying attention to temperatures and stability.

E6600 (stock speed at the moment)

3GB (Would be 4GB, but Windows 32-bit apparently can't handle it!) Corsair TWINX2048-6400 (1GB DIMMS, DDR800) in asynchronus dual-channel mode (Didn't even know you could DO that, but apparently the P5W can..)

2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (Set up in RAID 0)

Sapphire X1900XTX 512MB

Memory is set to DDR-800 in BIOS, other than that, all "overclocking" options are untouched for the moment. I'm using the stock HSF, with AS5. It wasn't lapped or anything, I just scraped the crap TIM off and used the AS5.

Okay, so here's the temps (CoreTemp for CPU):

Ambient Room Temp - Around 75F, 24C
Idle 35C-39C The low end temps here are with my floor fan blowing.
Load 51C-54C

Orthos fails after about 2.5 minutes with the following:

1:FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
1:Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.

WTF, so there's something wrong with my system, right? Well, not so fast there..

This system was sitting at 2.9GHz for days, no problem. Been playing EQ2, encoding videos, and doing other various stuff, no problem. Runs 32M SuperPi (two instances, of course) and finishes no problem. Haven't tried MemTest yet, have to burn the CD, which is a PITA.

Keep in mind that every other program I run does fine at the overclocked speed, much less stock, but Orthos fails. Anyone got an explanation for this? A bug in Orthos, mabye? Oh, and there *is no stress.txt file anywhere on my computer, I looked for it*.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance,

You local n00b, CountryEvil.

 

[jose]

Run memtest at stock speeds.. Turn everything to default in bios, no oc'ding.

Then run prime95, 2 instances.. while in windows.

Report back..

Regards,
Jose

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Sounds like a ram problem. Check your ram voltage and timings and make sure your mobo is setting them per the rams specs, if not adjust them manually to spec

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: CountryEvil
Haven't tried MemTest yet, have to burn the CD, which is a PITA.

OH COME ON!!!

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: CountryEvil
Haven't tried MemTest yet, have to burn the CD, which is a PITA.

OH COME ON!!!

Go Go DFI's built in mem test on the BIOS :thumbsup:

 

[CountryEvil]

Jose - Nothing is overclocked. The memory speed in the BIOS was adjusted to match the spec of the memory, nothing more. Are you saying I should run MemTest with the memory *underclocked*, as the mobo would detect it by default?

Good point on the RAM voltages, GuitarDaddy, because I know for a fact that unless you go in and change the speed, it reports these DIMMS as PC-5800, which they clearly are not. I know the timings on the DIMMS are 5-5-5-12, but you'll have to pardon me, I'm a bit of an idiot when it goes that far.

This mobo has more than four memory timing settings, and I have no idea what the sequence on the timings refers to.

Part Number » CM2X1024-6400

Type » DDR2-800 (XM2S-6400)

Size » 1GB

Latency » 5-5-5-15-2T

I don't see any information on Corsair's site about what the actual voltage is supposed to be, though. :/ I'm *fairly* sure that the DDR2 standard says 1.8v, but...*shrug*

 

[CountryEvil]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: CountryEvil
Haven't tried MemTest yet, have to burn the CD, which is a PITA.

OH COME ON!!!

What? I don't burn a lot of discs. Sorry, but not everyone is some DVD/game pirate.. I know it's a bit hard to believe. I use an external HD for backup, because 250GB beats the hell out of 4.7. I just don't burn many CD's or DVD's, and I refuse to pay 50$ for Nero or something else when I'll only use it mabye once or twice a year.

If you'd like to not help me, I'm cool with that, but stop trolling my thread, thanks.

 

[tunar]

The same thing happens to me with my E6600.

On some speeds (let's use 395FSB (3.555ghz) CAS 4-4-3-11) Memtest86 will run fine and general usage will be fine (rendering in XSI/Mental Ray, playing games like Ghost Recon, X3, WinRAR bench for hours) But when I use SP2004 (Orthos BETA), it will fail after 30 minutes with the same rounding error warning.

For now I'm loosening up my CAS timings and it doesn't appear to be failing any more, but it's strange how it seems to be the only program to fail at these speeds. It crossed my mind that it might also be a bug, but I'm generally new to all of this so it's probably me just wishing it was a bug than it actually being one.

 

[CountryEvil]

Well, I did a bit of reading so I could go set the timings manually, did that. Set the voltage from Auto to 1.8v too. Orthos has been running for 10 minutes, never made it past 2:20 before, so it looks like the problem is at least partially fixed.

Thanks for the voltage suggestion, I think that was the one.

Now...

Anyone know why my mobo won't let me set the CPU voltage to anything other than Auto?

P5W DH Deluxe, 1101 bios revision, IIRC. 1201 seems to be the latest as of the 25th, though.

 

[phile]

Try disabling Speedstep and Enhanced C1 Control to unlock vcore.

An indispensable thread for P5W DH owners:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=110193

-phil

 

[CountryEvil]

Okay, Orthos ran 49 minutes, 53 seconds that time. Same error.

*edit* Thanks, Phile! I had already turned off Speedstep, since I couldn't figure out how to enable it in windows anyways. I'll look into that.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: CountryEvil

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: CountryEvil
Haven't tried MemTest yet, have to burn the CD, which is a PITA.

OH COME ON!!!

What? I don't burn a lot of discs. Sorry, but not everyone is some DVD/game pirate.. I know it's a bit hard to believe. I use an external HD for backup, because 250GB beats the hell out of 4.7. I just don't burn many CD's or DVD's, and I refuse to pay 50$ for Nero or something else when I'll only use it mabye once or twice a year.

If you'd like to not help me, I'm cool with that, but stop trolling my thread, thanks.

wtf trolling your thread?! you just said YOURSELF that your computer runs "fine" except you haven't used any memory apps. and where the heck did DVD/game pirating come from!? is it that hard to download an ISO from http://www.memtest86.com/ and then use a FREE burning program like DVD Decrypter http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/ to burn the iso... way to show your gratitude

edit: to the post that's two below:

you asked for what could be wrong with your system, and you don't test any memory applications (even though you pointed out that fact yourself). could it be any more obvious that there could be one area that might be unstable if you hadn't tested memory?

trolling your thread by pointing out the obvious? you're going to have a tough time on these forums. and not all EVIL PIRATING SOFTWARE are used for ILLEGAL means. i already pointed out that it is a FREE program that can burn ISOs, which is all you need for MemTest86+, so you don't have to shell out $50 for Nero, but whatever, if you're too lazy to spend $0.10 on a CD to determine if your system is stable, then i think you shouldn't be building computers. i'm done with this thread, good luck everyone else!

 

[myocardia]

I'm almost positive that all Corsair XMS PC6400 is 1.9v, except for their 2.1v version. So, you still need more vdimm.

 

[CountryEvil]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: CountryEvil

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: CountryEvil
Haven't tried MemTest yet, have to burn the CD, which is a PITA.

OH COME ON!!!

What? I don't burn a lot of discs. Sorry, but not everyone is some DVD/game pirate.. I know it's a bit hard to believe. I use an external HD for backup, because 250GB beats the hell out of 4.7. I just don't burn many CD's or DVD's, and I refuse to pay 50$ for Nero or something else when I'll only use it mabye once or twice a year.

If you'd like to not help me, I'm cool with that, but stop trolling my thread, thanks.

wtf trolling your thread?! you just said YOURSELF that your computer runs "fine" except you haven't used any memory apps. and where the heck did DVD/game pirating come from!? is it that hard to download an ISO from http://www.memtest86.com/ and then use a FREE burning program like DVD Decrypter http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/ to burn the iso... way to show your gratitude

Gratitude? For what, you prick? Other people were trying to help, but up to this point, all you had done was troll the thread.

Nice touch, linking me to a program that exists solely to pirate DVD's, btw. And for convieniently relinking me to memtest after I said that I'd already read the FAQ's.

I hope your other 8000 posts haven't been as useless as the last two.

[face_hoping_for_board_squelch_already]

Jesus.