E6300 & ASUS P5B Deluxe @ Video Problems

[Tr0n]

Hi all,

I'm having a rather strange stability problem and was wondering if you folks could help me out. First the specs:

E6300 @ 2.8 GHz (400x7)
Asus P5B Deluxe (Bios 0711)
SuperTalent T800UB1GC5 1GB PC6400 DDR2 (5-5-5-15)
nVidia 6600GT (no-OC)

DRAM Frequency - DDR2-800 MHz
PCIE Frequency: 100
PCI: 33.33
Memory Voltage: 2.10v (tried up to 2.25v)
CPU vCore: 1.3625v (tried to 1.3750v)
FSB Termination Voltage: Auto (tried 1.400v)
NB vCore - 1.45v (tried 1.55v)
SB vCore (SATA, PCIE) - 1.6v (tried 1.7v)
ICH Chipset Voltage - Auto

C1E Support - Disabled
Max CPUID Value Limit - Disabled
Vanderpool Technology - Disabled
CPU TM function - Enabled
Execute Disable Bit - Enabled
PECI - Disabled

PEG Link Mode - Auto (tried Normal)
ASUS C.G.I. - Auto

I've ran Prime95 and Memtest86 for several hours and 3DMark06 a few times without any errors or problems. Games also rune fine. The CPU core temp rarely hits 60C under load (CoreTemp application).

The problem is every time I watch a movie (DVD, XviD) the system either freezes (sound starts to loop and I need to hard reset) or it begins to studder (sound loop's and continues and loop's again, the mouse also moves, stops, moves). The freeze after I start the movie happens anytime between 10 and 60 minutes.

Now, when I get back into Windows after the reset the nVidia message appears that it had to stop because there was danger of damaging the card.

But it's kinda strange since I can run very 3D demanding games with no lockups, but video output locks the system.

Any ideas what might be wrong here? It's very annoying to say at least.

 

[Tr0n]

So no ideas?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Sounds more like a driver/firmware issue with your optical drive, than an O/C stability issue. You can test this by dropping back to stock settings and see if your still having the same problem

 

[Tr0n]

I'm watching movies from HD, not from the DVD drive.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Ahh! Well then I would suspect it's a software issue, I would try reinstalling and or updating the program your using to play movies. Windows media player? Realplayer? Nero? Cyberlink?

 

[Ronnie]

Hey Tron, got the same problem with my e6300@3.73 with P5B Deluxe when I updated to bios 0711, I'm thinking it has something to do with the PEG Link Mode or ASUS C.G.I.

 

[Tr0n]

I have the feeling that it has something to do with buggy Asus jraid, network or soundmax drivers. That or some other bios thingy.

I've tried changing the PEG Link Mode and C.G.I. (which are if I understood correctly kinda like GPU overclocking tools) but so far no luck.

 

[KBTuning]

i use to have that problem w/ my 6600GT and it was a driver issue... find another driver... like the one that Futuremark Specifies for 3Dmark05 or whatever actually specifies the 6000 series.

 

[Tr0n]

You mean another driver for the 6600GT? I have the latest official ForceWare 91.47.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Tr0n
You mean another driver for the 6600GT? I have the latest official ForceWare 91.47.

There's your problem. I got a nice crash back to the desktop when trying to use any driver later than 84.25 with my 6600. The latest drivers don't work well at all with the 6600 series cards. This site has 84 series drivers, including what I would use with a 6600GT, the 84.25: link.

 

[Klokuil]

I'm having *exactly* the same problems!

Windows XP Pro x64
CPU: E6300
Mobo: ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
Vid: nVidia GF 7800GS XFX

I'm really looking forward to solving it. I thought it was a VFW problem though. I don't think the video card can be the problem.

--EDIT--
I tried playing video in WMP, Winamp, Divx, Media Player Classic (alternative Quicktime) and Quicktime, to no avail. All "crash". Really odd tho, it seems like it turns into a very slow computer at once, the screen redraws very slow (one thing at a time). Another thing, Adobe Premiere *does* play video! But it uses it's own VFW.

 

[Regalk]

You guys should check the PCIe mode with CPU-Z - I believe it is falling back to 1X - look at my BIOS settings posted here or try increasing PCIe to 110 OR

South Bridge (remember I gave this 1.70volts & temps are 40C - heatsink appears to be too small)
PCIEX16 2/PCIEX 1 1Force - X4Mode (Fast)....perhaps this is why I do not have PCIe mode dropping to 1X even though I set the speed to 100 (some use 110)

 

[Klokuil]

I have an AGP card, or is that a dumb thing to say as a reaction to what Regalk said?

 

[Regalk]

comments only relate to PCI-e not AGP & ASRock boards - my motto is that the single most important part of your box is the MB so NO ECS, ASrock, Foxconn, Biostar and stuff like that

 

[Klokuil]

Come on, that's nonsense and you know it. I've had ASRock boards for the past 6 years and never had problems with it. I see one connection between our boards, and that's the CPU.

Yes, I know ASRock isn't known as the best board producer, but they are generally budget nice performance boards. I am sure that that can't be the problem, since Tr0n has an ASUS board, why would it be the motherboard?

 

[Tr0n]

The funny thing is, watching movies no longer freezes my system.

I have no idea why it stopped. I did install the latest beta XviD codec and the new official ForceWare drivers 93.71, but I'm not sure it's because of that.

I still think these are sound or network driver issues.

 

[Klokuil]

I'll give it a go and pray. It's driving me nuts.

--- one day later ---
It worked! It f-ing worked! But then I installed WMP11, and nothing works again! *goes mental*

Can you describe again what you did? Did you do anything else besides installing the new XviD codecs and new forceware?

 

[Tr0n]

Yeah, I basically played around with different versions of codecs (XviD 1.1.0, XviD latest beta, DivX and then back to XviD latest beta). I use Media Player Classic for movie playback.

I still have WMP10, so I didn't upgrade to 11.

Oh, I also updated the P5B Deluxe bios to the latest official version (0804) so maybe this helped also.

Let us know how it goes. I really wanna nail this issue.

 

[Klokuil]

Okay, reinstalled windows (just to be sure). I'm sorta 100% sure it are the VFW files. First they didn't play, because it couldn't locate the VFW files. They were installed in the SysWOW64 folder instead of system32. Now I relocated them, and I get the error "%1 is not a valid win32 aplication". Then I reinstalled ffdshow x64 (Celtic Druid's build, thanks) but it uses up one core, plus I don't get any image, just sound.

Can you send me these files? (nmsoft.daedalus@gmail.com)

ff_vfw.dll
xvidvfw.dll

(Located in either your SysWOW64 folder or System32 folder)

Thanks in advance,
Nick