Ok so I am on my second P4P800 board from newegg (thanks to RMA, whew) with a P4 2.6c.
The first board ran for a few days, then ceased to boot. The light on the board would turn on, but the system would not initialize anything, POST, beep or do anything else. The POST Reporter said "system failed CPU test"
Now I still am not sure what happened with that one. I assumed I had bumped a power connector while I was rearranging a case light (yes, it was on, and yes, I know that's dumb) and somehow screwed something up that way so...
I replaced it, popped stuff back together, and after some fiddling got it to a stable overclock of 3.12 GHz, everything seemed fine.
The other day, I bought a new USB keyboard.. popped it in, everything seemed golden. When I went to restart, the system would beep many times, (maybe 8 or so) and hang a little then sort of lurch through the post, and start the OS. Subsequent boots got worse, to the point that the system wouldn't boot with the keyboard plugged in at all. Hmm.. I figured, bad keyboard.
I plug keyboard into two other machines in my house, no problem at all.. smooth boot, everything's golden (these aren't overclocked systems however)
So.. I ended up flashing BIOS to 1015, which lists "USB Update".. and voila, system boots, doesn't beep at all.
Great. I fiddle with the OC again, as per a diff thread here, and nudge things a bit faster (3.2 GHz) by controlling the timings and bumping the CPU VCore a teense (1.6 volts) Everything is great, SuperPI and all benchmarks run great, I'm stoked.
So... I am sitting there a few days later, minding my own business, when the darn thing locks up solid..
I reboot.. nothing.. try agian.. won't load the OS.. go to Bios, set to standard standard, and auto voltage..
go into windows and wtf the system says it's running at 3.68 GHz! I am a bit weirded out by that, but I confirm it with Sandra, so I shut off, reboot, change bios to lock at factory, and reboot.. system won't boot..
few normal toubleshooting steps later, and I'm back to where I was with the first board.. "system failed CPU test" I tried popping the CPU out, and back in, and nada.. cleared the CMOS memory.. nada..
So the question is.. do I have a bad board? Is my CPU funky? or is there some other insidious culprit at work here... I have an Antec 480 watt power supply.. and I have never monitored any major heat increases (nothing over 106 def F CPU)
Since I am looking at replacing parts at this point I am trying to decide on what to get.. another P4P800 ? new processor? Should I just get that snazzy Abit Max one? hrm..
The first board ran for a few days, then ceased to boot. The light on the board would turn on, but the system would not initialize anything, POST, beep or do anything else. The POST Reporter said "system failed CPU test"
Now I still am not sure what happened with that one. I assumed I had bumped a power connector while I was rearranging a case light (yes, it was on, and yes, I know that's dumb) and somehow screwed something up that way so...
I replaced it, popped stuff back together, and after some fiddling got it to a stable overclock of 3.12 GHz, everything seemed fine.
The other day, I bought a new USB keyboard.. popped it in, everything seemed golden. When I went to restart, the system would beep many times, (maybe 8 or so) and hang a little then sort of lurch through the post, and start the OS. Subsequent boots got worse, to the point that the system wouldn't boot with the keyboard plugged in at all. Hmm.. I figured, bad keyboard.
I plug keyboard into two other machines in my house, no problem at all.. smooth boot, everything's golden (these aren't overclocked systems however)
So.. I ended up flashing BIOS to 1015, which lists "USB Update".. and voila, system boots, doesn't beep at all.
Great. I fiddle with the OC again, as per a diff thread here, and nudge things a bit faster (3.2 GHz) by controlling the timings and bumping the CPU VCore a teense (1.6 volts) Everything is great, SuperPI and all benchmarks run great, I'm stoked.
So... I am sitting there a few days later, minding my own business, when the darn thing locks up solid..
I reboot.. nothing.. try agian.. won't load the OS.. go to Bios, set to standard standard, and auto voltage..
go into windows and wtf the system says it's running at 3.68 GHz! I am a bit weirded out by that, but I confirm it with Sandra, so I shut off, reboot, change bios to lock at factory, and reboot.. system won't boot..
few normal toubleshooting steps later, and I'm back to where I was with the first board.. "system failed CPU test" I tried popping the CPU out, and back in, and nada.. cleared the CMOS memory.. nada..
So the question is.. do I have a bad board? Is my CPU funky? or is there some other insidious culprit at work here... I have an Antec 480 watt power supply.. and I have never monitored any major heat increases (nothing over 106 def F CPU)
Since I am looking at replacing parts at this point I am trying to decide on what to get.. another P4P800 ? new processor? Should I just get that snazzy Abit Max one? hrm..
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