FictionPimp
Junior Member
Hello,
I recently built my first P4 system (all others have been AMD).
I bought a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP board, P4 3 gig 800mhz fsb, 2 512 kingston HyperX pc 3200 ram chips. ati 9600 pro, 430W Enermax power supply, Western Digital ata 100 60 gig HD, Lite-on CD-RW.
I bought the board because I wanted to eventually do serial ATA and raid.
Anyways, I set it up, ran memtest86 and it completed without error. I installed windows XP with hyperthreading enabled in bios. Windows installed fine.
Now here's the issue. I ran 3dmark 2003 and 2001 without issue, pluged in my case fans, put my case side on. Installed norton IS, and now at random my computer will short beep 3 - 5 times someitmes once, sometimes over and over. When this happens it sounds like my cpu fan drops slower for a second. This still happens even after I unhooked all my case fans. Also the system randomly restarts (although very rarly, and I think I need to change a windows XP setting to stop this and see the error). I am trying to figure out if this is a cpu, mb, ram, or power issue. Any suggestions?
*edit* also I have CPU fan control enabled in bios as well as CPU fan monitoring.*
I recently built my first P4 system (all others have been AMD).
I bought a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP board, P4 3 gig 800mhz fsb, 2 512 kingston HyperX pc 3200 ram chips. ati 9600 pro, 430W Enermax power supply, Western Digital ata 100 60 gig HD, Lite-on CD-RW.
I bought the board because I wanted to eventually do serial ATA and raid.
Anyways, I set it up, ran memtest86 and it completed without error. I installed windows XP with hyperthreading enabled in bios. Windows installed fine.
Now here's the issue. I ran 3dmark 2003 and 2001 without issue, pluged in my case fans, put my case side on. Installed norton IS, and now at random my computer will short beep 3 - 5 times someitmes once, sometimes over and over. When this happens it sounds like my cpu fan drops slower for a second. This still happens even after I unhooked all my case fans. Also the system randomly restarts (although very rarly, and I think I need to change a windows XP setting to stop this and see the error). I am trying to figure out if this is a cpu, mb, ram, or power issue. Any suggestions?
*edit* also I have CPU fan control enabled in bios as well as CPU fan monitoring.*
