Hey there, just got my xp2500 system together and Im having some instability issues at stock speeds.
My motherboard is a Biostar M7NCD PRO and im running a barton 2500, using 1 stick of buffalo pc3200 ram (512 megs). Im running a radeon 9800 NP clocked at 380, 315 and onboard sound and LAN. Im using the stock AMD cooler, and it is the one with the round copper contact on the bottom and Arctic Silver 2.
Under heavy load (prime 95 test for around an hour or 2) my computer randomly reboots. That is the basis of my problem.
Now, this is the part that is confusing me. The default volts for a Barton 2500 are 1.65 correct? Well, im getting about 1.6-1.62 or so. Ive seen it drop as low as 1.58. As a matter of fact, during idle, after watching it for quiet some time I cant recall seeing it at 1.65 at all.
Its been awhile since ive messed with it, but IIRC, on my IWILL kk266 board the voltage was not spot on with BIOS settings, meaning that if you wanted to get 1.75 you would have to set it to like 1.8 or so. But I remeber on my IWILL setting it to DEFAULT would run it exactly at 1.75 with only the normal fluctations. 1.75 was the default voltage for my old TBIRD.
With default on this biostar, its not touching 1.65 at all. Could that be causing my instability? Do I need to manually set it a notch higher to get actual 1.65? This seems odd if so, as I would think it would default to a good working voltage so the layman would never have to worry about it.
I am indeed running a generic PSU, and that could be the problem, but I want to explore all my options before settling on that.
Thanks in advance anandtechers, if you need any more info let me know.
My motherboard is a Biostar M7NCD PRO and im running a barton 2500, using 1 stick of buffalo pc3200 ram (512 megs). Im running a radeon 9800 NP clocked at 380, 315 and onboard sound and LAN. Im using the stock AMD cooler, and it is the one with the round copper contact on the bottom and Arctic Silver 2.
Under heavy load (prime 95 test for around an hour or 2) my computer randomly reboots. That is the basis of my problem.
Now, this is the part that is confusing me. The default volts for a Barton 2500 are 1.65 correct? Well, im getting about 1.6-1.62 or so. Ive seen it drop as low as 1.58. As a matter of fact, during idle, after watching it for quiet some time I cant recall seeing it at 1.65 at all.
Its been awhile since ive messed with it, but IIRC, on my IWILL kk266 board the voltage was not spot on with BIOS settings, meaning that if you wanted to get 1.75 you would have to set it to like 1.8 or so. But I remeber on my IWILL setting it to DEFAULT would run it exactly at 1.75 with only the normal fluctations. 1.75 was the default voltage for my old TBIRD.
With default on this biostar, its not touching 1.65 at all. Could that be causing my instability? Do I need to manually set it a notch higher to get actual 1.65? This seems odd if so, as I would think it would default to a good working voltage so the layman would never have to worry about it.
I am indeed running a generic PSU, and that could be the problem, but I want to explore all my options before settling on that.
Thanks in advance anandtechers, if you need any more info let me know.
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