Jeff7181
Lifer
Just installed an Intel DH55HC motherboard with a Core i3 530 and an 8800GT with the latest published WHQL drivers and the OCZ memory below:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227346
Windows XP 32-bit install went just fine. Fully patched now with MSE installed and updated. When I was installing software it froze... keyboard and mouse unresponsive, display frozen, not changing. Had to hard boot the thing to get it going again. It did this once more when installing something different but both times the reinstall went fine the second time I tried. Another time I just opened Firefox and got a BSOD.
I checked the CPU temp in the BIOS and it's 48C idle. Just using the retail heatsink/fan with the thermal goop Intel applies. Sounds a little high, but I don't think heat is the problem here as the heatsink is getting nice and warm which tells me it's making proper contact with the processor.
So I downloaded Prime95... ran 4 threads for 20 minutes, no problems. Even installed some other software while it was doing that, no problems.
So I stuck my Ultimate Boot CD in (4.1.1) and immediately after hitting enter to boot, the computer locks up and I have to hard boot. I can repeat this over and over - it never successfully boots to the UBCD menu.
So I downloaded a Memtest-86 ISO. I first selected the single CPU test - it got through about 60% of the first test and the PC rebooted. I can repeat this over and over as well. I tried disabling Hyper-Threading, no help. I tried disabling one of the processor cores, no help. Tried disabling the other processor core, no help. However, if I select the multi CPU test, it keeps running and doesn't show any errors... 1 pass completed as I type this. Also, if I choose the old version (3.4) I can run a full pass with no reboot or errors.
I checked the memory voltage, it was at 1.5v so I set it to 1.6 based on what OCZ's specs say the memory should run at and that didn't help, same issues. Verified I have all the connections plugged into the motherboard that should be... 20-pin power connector, extra 4-pin connector next to the CPU, 6-pin PCI-Express connector on the 8800GT. Checked the voltage on the 12 and 5 volt rails - less than 3% difference from spec on both.
I'm about to take a stick of RAM out and try one at a time because in my experience (from my overclocking days and all the stability testing that went with it) it sounds like a memory issue. If that doesn't turn up anything I think I'm going to attempt to flash the BIOS, although I'm hesitant to do that because of the instability of it... that's just what I need, the PC to lock up in the middle of a BIOS update.
If you'd like to throw in your 2 cents, I'd welcome any suggestions.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227346
Windows XP 32-bit install went just fine. Fully patched now with MSE installed and updated. When I was installing software it froze... keyboard and mouse unresponsive, display frozen, not changing. Had to hard boot the thing to get it going again. It did this once more when installing something different but both times the reinstall went fine the second time I tried. Another time I just opened Firefox and got a BSOD.
I checked the CPU temp in the BIOS and it's 48C idle. Just using the retail heatsink/fan with the thermal goop Intel applies. Sounds a little high, but I don't think heat is the problem here as the heatsink is getting nice and warm which tells me it's making proper contact with the processor.
So I downloaded Prime95... ran 4 threads for 20 minutes, no problems. Even installed some other software while it was doing that, no problems.
So I stuck my Ultimate Boot CD in (4.1.1) and immediately after hitting enter to boot, the computer locks up and I have to hard boot. I can repeat this over and over - it never successfully boots to the UBCD menu.
So I downloaded a Memtest-86 ISO. I first selected the single CPU test - it got through about 60% of the first test and the PC rebooted. I can repeat this over and over as well. I tried disabling Hyper-Threading, no help. I tried disabling one of the processor cores, no help. Tried disabling the other processor core, no help. However, if I select the multi CPU test, it keeps running and doesn't show any errors... 1 pass completed as I type this. Also, if I choose the old version (3.4) I can run a full pass with no reboot or errors.
I checked the memory voltage, it was at 1.5v so I set it to 1.6 based on what OCZ's specs say the memory should run at and that didn't help, same issues. Verified I have all the connections plugged into the motherboard that should be... 20-pin power connector, extra 4-pin connector next to the CPU, 6-pin PCI-Express connector on the 8800GT. Checked the voltage on the 12 and 5 volt rails - less than 3% difference from spec on both.
I'm about to take a stick of RAM out and try one at a time because in my experience (from my overclocking days and all the stability testing that went with it) it sounds like a memory issue. If that doesn't turn up anything I think I'm going to attempt to flash the BIOS, although I'm hesitant to do that because of the instability of it... that's just what I need, the PC to lock up in the middle of a BIOS update.
If you'd like to throw in your 2 cents, I'd welcome any suggestions.
