ExcaliburMM
Senior member
Greetings Anand,
My lovely LP DK X58 as seen in my signature seems to be having some trouble. The past couple of days I've been manually booting between my Win7 64 and XP 32 which are on different drives. About an hour ago when trying to switch back, it failed to boot and the CMOS needed to be reset.
During that time when trying to boot it seemed to have forgotten or corrupted its BIOS but later fixed/recovered them. I was given a screen at one point proclaiming 'AHCI BIOS not installed!', and was quite worried.
On a separate but possibly related note, playing movies in VLC on my XP 32 HDD, every minute or so the movie will have a slight skip, more noticeable in the sound than picture. I'm not sure if that HDD is failing, the OC is the issue, or if VLC and XP just aren't playing nice. At any rate the same file works fine on VLC + Win7. I copied the file to the XP 32 HDD when playing just to see if it being on the other drive was a problem, but that wasn't it.
Anyway the problems culminated in a hard lockup while watching a movie on the XP 32 drive, the kind where everything is totally locked and you get that terrible screeching sound from the speakers. 🙁
I'm trying to isolate the cause and I've come up with the following:
-RAM timings may be too tight / freq too high.
Possible because before the problems I upped the memory multiplier a bit since the RAM was well below spec. I haven't tried my previous 4GHz / 1333mhz RAM OC yet, but I'm running 3.33GHz / 1333mhz just fine with the timings I usually use which are slightly tighter than the stock. Prime indicates no errors but I didn't run it for very long.
-BIOS chip corrupted/dying.
Something I've heard about on various boards and seems like it might fit the issue. Would be a simple fix.
-Board (Possibly even CPU) can't sustain the 4GHz OC
Although not extreme, maybe my lovely DFI board just can't take the heat. My vcore is well below 1.4v which I believe was regarded as a maximum limit for 24/7 operation. I believe I'm using 1.315v when at 4Ghz, 1.296v at my current 3.33GHz. I have a 40mm fan running on the northbridge which makes me think NB heat couldn't be it. That and the fact the ambient in this room is always below 60F. 😛
-Later revision of the same board (T3eH6-A rather than T3eH6) has been put out, yet no reason / differences / problems fixed have been noted anywhere that I can find. Makes me a bit suspicious. The only changes I can gather from pictures is some color scheme changes, and I highly doubt they'd make a revision just for that.
All help appreciated.
-Ex
My lovely LP DK X58 as seen in my signature seems to be having some trouble. The past couple of days I've been manually booting between my Win7 64 and XP 32 which are on different drives. About an hour ago when trying to switch back, it failed to boot and the CMOS needed to be reset.
During that time when trying to boot it seemed to have forgotten or corrupted its BIOS but later fixed/recovered them. I was given a screen at one point proclaiming 'AHCI BIOS not installed!', and was quite worried.
On a separate but possibly related note, playing movies in VLC on my XP 32 HDD, every minute or so the movie will have a slight skip, more noticeable in the sound than picture. I'm not sure if that HDD is failing, the OC is the issue, or if VLC and XP just aren't playing nice. At any rate the same file works fine on VLC + Win7. I copied the file to the XP 32 HDD when playing just to see if it being on the other drive was a problem, but that wasn't it.
Anyway the problems culminated in a hard lockup while watching a movie on the XP 32 drive, the kind where everything is totally locked and you get that terrible screeching sound from the speakers. 🙁
I'm trying to isolate the cause and I've come up with the following:
-RAM timings may be too tight / freq too high.
Possible because before the problems I upped the memory multiplier a bit since the RAM was well below spec. I haven't tried my previous 4GHz / 1333mhz RAM OC yet, but I'm running 3.33GHz / 1333mhz just fine with the timings I usually use which are slightly tighter than the stock. Prime indicates no errors but I didn't run it for very long.
-BIOS chip corrupted/dying.
Something I've heard about on various boards and seems like it might fit the issue. Would be a simple fix.
-Board (Possibly even CPU) can't sustain the 4GHz OC
Although not extreme, maybe my lovely DFI board just can't take the heat. My vcore is well below 1.4v which I believe was regarded as a maximum limit for 24/7 operation. I believe I'm using 1.315v when at 4Ghz, 1.296v at my current 3.33GHz. I have a 40mm fan running on the northbridge which makes me think NB heat couldn't be it. That and the fact the ambient in this room is always below 60F. 😛
-Later revision of the same board (T3eH6-A rather than T3eH6) has been put out, yet no reason / differences / problems fixed have been noted anywhere that I can find. Makes me a bit suspicious. The only changes I can gather from pictures is some color scheme changes, and I highly doubt they'd make a revision just for that.
All help appreciated.
-Ex
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