New X2 4600+ and DVD burning doesn't work?

[rackley]

Hi all,

I just upgraded my system from a 3000+ AMD 64 processor to a dual-core X2 4600+. I've updated my BIOS (nForce4 MB by eVGA) and installed both the AMD and MS patches. But for some reason I can't burn DVDs anymore after this upgrade and I'm having some other issues too.

I burned about 20 DVDs a week before the upgrade and have *never* had any problems doing so. Now I can't burn a single one - I made about 10 coasters today trying. Different images and different programs all do the same thing - they work for about 1-2 minutes and then progress stops and it hangs. I can abort, but the DVD drive is unusable after that and I have to reboot.

I've also had about 6-8 instances of CHKDSK running automatically (JUST TODAY!) - they're finding bad entries on recent files too. I'm wondering if maybe I have some low level problem going on? Any advice?

Thanks,
Ray

 

[Captante]

If the CPU is the only change you made to your system, my first guess would be that you have a bad processor or somthing like the CPU voltage is too low... go into your BIOS & raise it a notch to check.... another possibilty is that you didn't seat the heatsink properly when you swapped the CPU & now its overheating.

 

[myocardia]

Rackley, make sure your motherboard has your vcore set to 1.35v. Most motherboards seem to think that 1.30 is all they need to run properly. It isn't.

 

[rackley]

Thanks for the ideas. Yes, the CPU is the only hardware change I made.

I checked my voltage with cpuz and it's about 1.352-1.360. I'm running the NVIDIA stress test and the CPU gets up to about 51*C max. I can play BF2 all day long with no problems, it just seems to be a problem with my storage. I'm getting CHKDSKs on one of my SATA drives at every boot, plus my DVD burner is obviously PATA so it seems like some kind of storage issue almost. I updated all the drivers from NVIDIA but I get the same issue. I find it hard to believe that both a PATA and SATA are going bad though. Back to the CPU.. I'll probably swap it out for the 3000+ this afternoon and see what the result is.

Thanks,
Ray

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: myocardia
Rackley, make sure your motherboard has your vcore set to 1.35v. Most motherboards seem to think that 1.30 is all they need to run properly. It isn't.

I wonder if that may the source of some intermittent issues with my X2 4200 as well. MSI's CoreCenter reports the vcore as 1.28v. Once in every several days, my system will completely freeze.