Lockup problems with Dual Tyan Tiger MPX rig.

mobogasm

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Hi,

I have a Tyan Tiger MPX board with dual Athlon's (XP 1900's modded), 512mb PC2100 DDR ECC Reg Crucial Ram, 80GB WD SE HDD, Lite-On 40x Burner, Antec 400 watt p/w, ATI 8mb AGP Video. When I run RC5 I can run day and night 100% utilization on both processors and not have any hiccups or lockups, then when I go to prime95 it usually only lasts 60 minutes at the max. Temperatures hover around 50C for both processors and never over 55c which is not unreasonable in my opinion. I realize prime95 stress test is supposed to REALLY test the stability of your system so I was wondering what I could do to troubleshoot my stability problem? Where do I go from here so I can get prime95 to run 24/7? I have the latest bios on my motherboard and am using WinXP Build2600. I also receive random lockups about once a day for no apparent reason. Heat does not seem to be an issue but I could be wrong. Could it have anything to do with my modded processors? Please advise me with any information/recommendations to troubleshoot this. Thanks.
 

mastertech01

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IMHO Crucial ram has been unreliable in the Tyan boards in the past. I wont even buy Crucial and Im running 4 dually of various makes including 2466-4m which I am running a 512MB stick of Mushkin non ecc, a Thunder K7, a Gigabyte MPX, and a Chaintech MPX all on Samsung ECC REG with no problems. I avoid Crucial because I have seen many posts at 2CPU and AMDMB.com where people have had problems with it.
 

damonpip

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It could be the RAM as mastertech01 stated, I've heard of that problem as well. My Tiger MP is running great with Corsair Registered DDR. Also, you may want to make sure the L5 mods are good, I think I've heard of bad mods causing problems. I'm not sure what would cause it to suddenly lock up though, I think RAM is the most likely problem.