My winchie wont run stable at stock speeds!!!

ironique

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Ok, here's the deal. I have a 3200+ (see sigg for full sys specs). My system just will not run stabely at stock speeds. It crashes less than 5 minutes after booting. Even when im typing out something in word!!! I've read that some mobos under-volt some components so I set vcore manually to 1.4v and vdimm manually to 2.7v. No help.

I got a newer modded bios, no help. I've relaxed my mem timings, no help. I've reduced the multiplier, no hlep. I've tried diff HTT, LDT, mem ratio settings, all with diff voltage settings, no help. So many different combinations of settings, I've come to one conlusion, my system is more stable when OC'd than at default!!! How is this possible? At 2.6ghz (see sig) it run well, but after like 40 minutes of HL2, it restarts/crashes to the desktop/gives me a BSD (blank, no text).

I've run prime95 stabely for hours without error, memtest for passes without errors, 3dmark crashes after around 40 minutes, Doom3 and MoH:pA also crash similarly. I dont know what to do any more. This is really frustrating! Help anyone?
 

SemiBad

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My best guess would be the power supply. Try to put a quality one on it, and see what happen...
 

ironique

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I'll try and get a better PSU and see if it helps. I hope that'll solve it, though it would be strange that when oc'd (using more power) it would run more stable. Right now, I'll do anything to get this thing to run stable. Any other suggestions?
 

ironique

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Ok, I think I finally solved it, but it's really wierd. I moved the ram over from slots 3 and 4 to slots 1 and 2. I was reluctant to do this at first as the Zalman 7700 is pretty big and would require to be removed to fit the dimms in the first two slots. Now all the stability problems are gone. Is this common?
 

ironique

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Didn't even change my PSU, though I eventually will have to, 400W most probably isn't healthy for my rigg.
 

driphter1

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from what i've read that is common. all the tip threads for that mobo recommend using slots 1 and 2, especially when ocing