ECS board - stress test crashes! Help.

[S7NNER]

Hi,

I have the ECS board and it works flawlessly. i've RMA it once before because it kept crashing randomly. Anyway now it is almost stable (on since October last year!) besides one issue. Everytime i try to run Virtual Dub (divx compression) or any stress testing program it crashes about after 10minutes. I dont know the actual problem of this. Is it the board?

I've tried stress testing with bare bone such as video card, no sound, RAM + IDE hdd, no cdrom either. and still the same effect.
RAM is 100% clear (MEMTEST86), CPU is at 48 degrees full load. My setup is.

- 400 Leadman PSU
- ECS K7S5A board (w/o LAN)
- XP 1600 CPU
- 256 Kingmax SDRAM.
- Leadtek GF2 Ti
- EN1207D and RTL 8139 NIC
- AudioPCI sound
- 10GB Seagate IDE.
- 10GB Seagate SCSI LVD.
- DC-390U2B SCSI LVD card.

 

[Buz2b]

What are you using to measure the temps on the CPU? Some can be off by quite a bit. For a simple test, try doing the same compression that causes the crash, but this time take off the side of the system and direct a small fan towards it for extra cooling. If it stays stable you will at least know you have a cooling issue of some sort. Then you can break it down further to isolate the CPU, RAM, Video card or HDD.
The other possibility I'd look into would be your graphics drivers. What OS and drivers have you installed for the motherboard and/or video card?

 

[Duvie]

Remember, Divx is a hacked codec and virtualdub even reminds you this may cause freezing...So this is definitely not a hardware issue as software cannot be ruled out...Divx freeware and shareware programs are some of the buggiest programs around.

I have run gknot (nanub) which is variable or vitualdub for several movies without a flaw...This was after I couldn't get virtual dub or flask's new xmpeg to finish an encoding...

Most of these programs are crap and chalk full of the bugs, hence the countless updates...