E0 stepping prescott giving me problems.

[nighthawk15]

A few weeks ago I got a new CPU (an Intel 3.2E) to replace my old C0 stepping 3.0E that got some pins broken off. It works great for the most part except for one thing. Adobe Photoshop, both CS and CS2 hang up and freeze on me. FireFox does the some thing unless I run it in windows 98 compatibility mode (no idea why this fixes it but it does). What confuses me so much about this is it has no problems under heavy load or anything. It's just those couple of programs. I have already reformatted twice, reset my CMOS, checked the ASUS web site to make sure my BIOS are compatible with the CPU, and am currently running at stock speed until I figure out the problem. Here are my basic system specs.


ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe (1017 BIOS)

Intel 3.2E Prescott

1 GB (2x512) of Corsair XMS PC3200 2-3-3-6

2x 120GB Seagate Barracudas in RAID0

Nvidia GeForce 6800GT

Any ideas at all would be greatly appreciated.

 

[stevty2889]

So none of those problems happened with the 3.0E? You swapped the cpu and they quit working? Have you tried turning of hyperthreading temporarily to see if that helps? If you stick the old CPU back in, without re-installing windows, do the programs start to work normaly again? Have you run memtest to make sure it's not a memory related issue, which could also cause this problem, or could cause hard drive corruption as well?

 

[nighthawk15]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
So none of those problems happened with the 3.0E? You swapped the cpu and they quit working? Have you tried turning of hyperthreading temporarily to see if that helps? If you stick the old CPU back in, without re-installing windows, do the programs start to work normaly again? Have you run memtest to make sure it's not a memory related issue, which could also cause this problem, or could cause hard drive corruption as well?

Thanks alot for the reply. The problem never happened with my 3.0E. I can't try putting it back in because it's damaged or else I would, but I'm reasonably sure that the problems would be gone because as soon as i put in the E0 revision CPU they started. I'll try turning off HT and see if that fixes it. If that doesnt work I'll try memtest but I really dont think its memory because of how well games and benchies run.

 

[nighthawk15]

Turning off HT seems to fix it for some reason. I wonder why that would be?