Possible network problems from O/C'ing an e6600

[Entity]

The problems I'm having are kind of hard to isolate, but they only seem to be happening, to my knowledge, when I'm attempting to overclock my system. I have an E6600 with a P5B-Deluxe (1101 BIOS) and am trying to run it at 400x8 for a relatively easy overclock. Orthos reports this as stable over several attempts of 8+hrs, and heat doesn't seem to be an issue (P182 case with good cooling, Tuniq Tower for CPU).

The problem is a bit hard to describe so I'm posting it to see if anyone else has had it, since I can't find much about it at all.

Basically, when I'm using Firefox, certain pages don't seem to load properly. They'll load 1/2 way, or will not load the CSS but will load the page data. Other than that everything seems fine but that problem itself is quite annoying.

Anyone know what the problem is likely to be? I don't have any of the voltages in the 'red' range in the BIOS, can post them if need be.

Rob

 

[Entity]

Also, is there any software I can use to bench/test the network cards and their performance to actually see if I can figure out if the problem is in the network, or just with system instability, or somewhere else? The problem does seem to disappear when I run the system (at the same voltages) back at 266x9, but it's so hard to actually spot since it's inconsistent that I can't feel comfortable fully diagnosing it this way.

Rob

 

[Canai]

I have an E6600 on a P5W DH, and I lost connectivity randomly too.

I was running at 7x400, am now at 7x375, and still having problems. Heat not an issue, Orthos stable and all.

Maybe it's the ASUS boards?

 

[The-Noid]

You need to lock pci-e to 100, pci to 33.3 mhz.

Voltages mean nothing it is just if you lose devices because to too high a mhz.

 

[Entity]

PCI and PCIe are locked.

 

[cprince]

I would check the southbridge temperature. Also, it's possible that you have RF interference from the high FSB frequency. Try 333@9x.

 

[Entity]

K, this is now officially weird. Problem seems to still be resident when I'm not overclocking. System is stable ~24hr+ in Orthos, FWIW.

Any way I can test to see what the problem actually is? Here's a video of one of the more obvious problems (first problem occurs about 2:25 in). The other problems, as mentioned, are images not loading fully, connection suddenly basically dying but still "working", CSS not loading fully or properly..

http://www.roadtorobusto.com/networkproblems/

Rob

 

[Entity]

I'm running it through a few more tests when nothing is overclocked, overvolted, etc., right now to see if I can figure out wtf the problem is. It doesn't happen to any of the other computers in the house (wired or wireless) and I've plugged it into the cablemodem directly and still had the same problems.

Rob

 

[cprince]

Bad connection/cold solder joint at the network port, maybe?? Try putting in another NIC to see if you still have the problem.

 

[EvilRage]

I've been OCing my e4300 and the 2nd gigabit port on my eVGA 680i chipset died. No connectivity to the internet, but it can access the modem and router setup pages without issues. The first port appears to work fine, so I switched to it and hopefully it will continue to work.

Not so happy about network ports dying though.

 

[cprince]

EvilRage, it sounds like you have a DNS issue. If not, you should RMA the motherboard.