Instability Problem with new M7NCDPro

[DarkTXKnight]

Ok Ive installed this MB in a machine with an XP 3000+ and 1GB corsair dual channel ram. all seeme dto be working fine until I actually try to run programs, then it reboots for the heck of it. there is nothing obvious in the event log, but when I look at nvmonitor it shows green for the CPU voltage but red for the AGP and says 2.7 v and red for the mem that says 1.5 v. the video cardis a ti4600. Can anyone help me figure this out? This is not overclocked at all and these are the lowest voltage settings on the RAM and AGP in fact everything should be set to auto.

Thanks,

 

[VirtualLarry]

That's bizarre, sounds like the monitoring program is wrong, because 2.7v for vDIMM and 1.5v for AGP (8x?) voltages would be in the ballpark.

But if you are having sudden crashes, that's another issue altogether. Since this is a recent build, any number of things could be an issue. What PSU are you using, since you didn't mention? Have you tried running it in single-channel, with just one stick of RAM? Have you made a bootable MemTest86+ floppy or CD, and used that to test the RAM overnight? You may actually need to manually bump the RAM voltage up to 2.6v or 2.7v in the BIOS too, if you have everything set to lowest or AUTO settings, it may be defaulting to 2.5v.

 

[DarkTXKnight]

Ok Im looking in the bios now, it is reading CPU voltage at default, Agp voltage at 1.5v and DRAM at 2.5v IGP at 1.6 v The power supply is a coolmax AP-450x (cx-400b) and I also have a WD 200GB and Maxtor 120 as well as optowrite 16xdvdrw. this really has me scratching my head. 2 weeks ago i could run prime95 with no errors all weekend without a problem. I have not tried memtest yet.

**Edit** Im just looking at what you said... should this not be on 2.5V for the DRAM?? should it actually be higher? What about AGP?

 

[DarkTXKnight]

anyone have any ideas?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: DarkTXKnight
Ok this really has me scratching my head. 2 weeks ago i could run prime95 with no errors all weekend without a problem. I have not tried memtest yet.

go here and then report back..also turn off auto reboot
How to turn off Auto Reboot in XP
Right click on My Computer
Select Properties
Select the Advanced Tab->Startup & Recovery section
Select the Settings button
uncheck "Automatically restart" Apply".

This will give you a blue screen with the error message rather than rebooting the computer.