First time building a system, first time posting. My system is very unstable and any help would be
greatly appreciated.
My system has the following:
Lian Li 6099B
Antec Truepower 550w
Gigabyte 8KNXP
P4 2.8C
SLK-800U heatsink
Thermaltake Smart Two Case Fan
AIW 9800 Pro
(2) WD 200MB SE drives
Sony DDU 1612 DVD (OEM)
(2) sticks HyperX 512MB PC3500 (says 2.5v on the sticks)
Delkin six in 1 USB card reader
SB Audigy 2 Platinum
Floppy Drive (OEM)
It is set up as follows:
One memory stick in bank 1, the other in bank 4 (running in dual channel)
IDE 1 has Sony DVD. IDE 2 empty.
IDE 3 has one drive, IDE 4 has the other drive. They are running in RAID 0.
SATA connector 1 has the Giga "card" that lets you plug SATA drives to the back of the
computer case (this is not a card that plugs into a PCI slot but just screws to the back of the case)
SATA 2, 3 and 4 are empty..
PCI 6 has the Audigy card and PCI 1 through 5 are empty.
The Lian Li has two front USB ports which are connected to internal USB connectors.
The card reader is also connected to an internal USB connector.
Some BIOS Settings
Memory timings are set SPD (which results in 2.5, 3, 3, 8)
FSB 200
AGP Voltage -- normal
CPU Voltage -- normal (which is 1.525)
DIMM Voltage -- normal (says 2.5v on the sticks)
This was the first setup and it resulted in blue screens, windows "serious error" dialog boxes, random freezes, difficulty installing SB Audigy and
general weirdness such as Windows no longer displaying the Sony DVD under My Computer (reinstalling XP would fix this but it would happen again).
The games that came with the hardware (Morrowind and Hitman 2) would each crash afer a few minutes.
After reading Anandtech forums I increased DIMM voltage +0.1. This made a big improvement.
I no longer have the problem of Windows "losing" the DVD drive. It system is somewhat stable now but still not good.
For example, I was now able to install SB Audigy (after getting a message "The instruction at 0x772200e4 referenced memory at 0x001637c8.
This memory could not be "read"." Say what?) but occassionally the machine would still lock up. Many Windows "serious error " dialogs closing the program.
Internet explorer will just stop working too.
I tried running Prime95. It gets a fatal error either immediately or after 1 minute. I tried boosting DIMM Voltage +.2 and +.3 but still no Prime95.
I was, however, able to run Prime 95 with just one stick of memory for about 4 hours until it got a fatal error.
The games still crash and the machine will still lock up and not infrequently give a "serious error" dialog.
Any ideas on why this thing is so unstable? Thank you.
greatly appreciated.
My system has the following:
Lian Li 6099B
Antec Truepower 550w
Gigabyte 8KNXP
P4 2.8C
SLK-800U heatsink
Thermaltake Smart Two Case Fan
AIW 9800 Pro
(2) WD 200MB SE drives
Sony DDU 1612 DVD (OEM)
(2) sticks HyperX 512MB PC3500 (says 2.5v on the sticks)
Delkin six in 1 USB card reader
SB Audigy 2 Platinum
Floppy Drive (OEM)
It is set up as follows:
One memory stick in bank 1, the other in bank 4 (running in dual channel)
IDE 1 has Sony DVD. IDE 2 empty.
IDE 3 has one drive, IDE 4 has the other drive. They are running in RAID 0.
SATA connector 1 has the Giga "card" that lets you plug SATA drives to the back of the
computer case (this is not a card that plugs into a PCI slot but just screws to the back of the case)
SATA 2, 3 and 4 are empty..
PCI 6 has the Audigy card and PCI 1 through 5 are empty.
The Lian Li has two front USB ports which are connected to internal USB connectors.
The card reader is also connected to an internal USB connector.
Some BIOS Settings
Memory timings are set SPD (which results in 2.5, 3, 3, 8)
FSB 200
AGP Voltage -- normal
CPU Voltage -- normal (which is 1.525)
DIMM Voltage -- normal (says 2.5v on the sticks)
This was the first setup and it resulted in blue screens, windows "serious error" dialog boxes, random freezes, difficulty installing SB Audigy and
general weirdness such as Windows no longer displaying the Sony DVD under My Computer (reinstalling XP would fix this but it would happen again).
The games that came with the hardware (Morrowind and Hitman 2) would each crash afer a few minutes.
After reading Anandtech forums I increased DIMM voltage +0.1. This made a big improvement.
I no longer have the problem of Windows "losing" the DVD drive. It system is somewhat stable now but still not good.
For example, I was now able to install SB Audigy (after getting a message "The instruction at 0x772200e4 referenced memory at 0x001637c8.
This memory could not be "read"." Say what?) but occassionally the machine would still lock up. Many Windows "serious error " dialogs closing the program.
Internet explorer will just stop working too.
I tried running Prime95. It gets a fatal error either immediately or after 1 minute. I tried boosting DIMM Voltage +.2 and +.3 but still no Prime95.
I was, however, able to run Prime 95 with just one stick of memory for about 4 hours until it got a fatal error.
The games still crash and the machine will still lock up and not infrequently give a "serious error" dialog.
Any ideas on why this thing is so unstable? Thank you.
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