Failing prime at stock

[ender11122]

I just bought a used NewCastle 3000+ from a fellow ATer and its failing prime at stock speeds and volts. Possible reasons why?

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: ender11122
I just bought a used NewCastle 3000+ from a fellow ATer and its failing prime at stock speeds and volts. Possible reasons why?

Describe your setup please...there are MANY reasons that are possible.

 

[ender11122]

NM, I just saw I had 1.62 volts to it. Temps were a little warm but not real hot. Could that many volts throw it off.

 

[Duvie]

yes...and so can the default test if you allocate too much ram....There was a whole topic about this at prime's own web forum....It was causing the system to pagefile on the HDD and that was causing a delay that resulted in errors.....

The 1.62v shouldn't be enough for a newcastle that by default are 1.5v...what kind of coolinfg are you using???

 

[ender11122]

OK it did it again at stock 1.5 volts, 2000mhz

Here is my setup

A64 3000+ newcastle
Abit KV8
Sparkle 350w PSU, also tried a TT 420w PurePower, same result
512mb corsair XMS Cas2

Cooling is a TT All copper cooler, not sure of model. It did fine on my 2800+ so I dont think that is the problem.

 

[Duvie]

what prime test???

 

[ender11122]

the middle one

and its not just failing prime, its locking up

 

[Duvie]

All the components were used in your previous 2800+ setup??? sounds like a possible ram problem or power supply....

What do the voltages look like as well as the reported temps...

 

[ender11122]

reported temps looked fine until last restart.

They were at 40-50c depending on use

then they jumped to 60C last time.

I am swapping in the stock HSF to see what happens.


The new trick about this is, the first time i tried to put this in, the stock HSF did something to short out the chip or MB so that whenever i put pressure on the HSF, it wouldnt boot. I could start it by just laying the HSF on the CPU without locking it down, but now when it was fully attached

 

[ender11122]

OK, got the stock on.

Its running prime right now but its at 66C!!! No wait, 67!!

WTH is going on. Bad reading from the MB maybe?

Oh well, at least it hasnt failed or frozen yet

 

[Shimmishim]

bad contact between cpu and heatsink?

also, be sure to run small fft's

 

[ender11122]

its running fine now. Temps are just higher than normal. Oh well, I think its just a bad sensor because the HSF feel warm but not burning and I have checked contact and everything. Thanks for your help

 

[theMan]

if you have any more problems, run memtest to test your ram. gl.