EDIT: Crap, I thought I was posting in the Tech Support forum. Could someone do me a favor and move this?
I recently assembled my new system, but like the title suggests I've been having a few issues with it. Here's the blueprints:
Cooler Master Ammo 533
Enermax Noisetaker 485
Athlon X2 3800 w/Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Biostar TForce4SLI
1gb (2x512) Crucial Ballistix
250gb WD2500KS
XFX 7800 GT Extreme Edition w/Zalman VF-700CU
X-Fi Xtrememusic
Everything looked good on paper, and I didn't anticipate running into any incompatibilities. But once I actually assembled it, I ran into the following two issues:
1) The Biostar board has a feature called O.N.E. (Overclocking Navigator Engine) integrated into the BIOS. It features, among other things, three automatic overclock settings - the V6, V8, and V12 "Tech Engines". V6 boosts performance by 10-15%, V8 by 15-25%, and V12 by 25-30%. Since I'm relatively new to overclocking, I thought I'd give O.N.E. a try to see just how an overclock affects a system. I booted up the system, entered the BIOS, and set it to use the V6 Tech Engine.
But when I went to save and exit and pressed enter, the system immediately powered down. I started it back up again, but nothing was displayed on the screen and two of the board's indicator LEDs were out which indicated a "CPU/Chipset error". I couldn't get it to do anything unless I jumpered the CMOS. The Gigabit jack on this motherboard is defective - maybe this is just one more defect?
2) This, I believe I have figured out.
At random, my system apparently likes to engage in fits of random reboots just as it's starting to load Windows. Clearly, it's got something to do with my X-Fi Xtrememusic since the system boots up just fine if I take it out (guess I'll have to get it replaced with one of the newer models), but what strikes me as odd is how sometimes it boots up when the X-Fi is in and other times it doesn't.
So while I've figured out how to solve #2, I'm still not sure about #1. Ideas? Should I just RMA the board, or is there something I could do to fix it? I've got an AN8-Ultra coming back from RMA that I could probably use if needed.
I recently assembled my new system, but like the title suggests I've been having a few issues with it. Here's the blueprints:
Cooler Master Ammo 533
Enermax Noisetaker 485
Athlon X2 3800 w/Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Biostar TForce4SLI
1gb (2x512) Crucial Ballistix
250gb WD2500KS
XFX 7800 GT Extreme Edition w/Zalman VF-700CU
X-Fi Xtrememusic
Everything looked good on paper, and I didn't anticipate running into any incompatibilities. But once I actually assembled it, I ran into the following two issues:
1) The Biostar board has a feature called O.N.E. (Overclocking Navigator Engine) integrated into the BIOS. It features, among other things, three automatic overclock settings - the V6, V8, and V12 "Tech Engines". V6 boosts performance by 10-15%, V8 by 15-25%, and V12 by 25-30%. Since I'm relatively new to overclocking, I thought I'd give O.N.E. a try to see just how an overclock affects a system. I booted up the system, entered the BIOS, and set it to use the V6 Tech Engine.
But when I went to save and exit and pressed enter, the system immediately powered down. I started it back up again, but nothing was displayed on the screen and two of the board's indicator LEDs were out which indicated a "CPU/Chipset error". I couldn't get it to do anything unless I jumpered the CMOS. The Gigabit jack on this motherboard is defective - maybe this is just one more defect?
2) This, I believe I have figured out.
At random, my system apparently likes to engage in fits of random reboots just as it's starting to load Windows. Clearly, it's got something to do with my X-Fi Xtrememusic since the system boots up just fine if I take it out (guess I'll have to get it replaced with one of the newer models), but what strikes me as odd is how sometimes it boots up when the X-Fi is in and other times it doesn't.
So while I've figured out how to solve #2, I'm still not sure about #1. Ideas? Should I just RMA the board, or is there something I could do to fix it? I've got an AN8-Ultra coming back from RMA that I could probably use if needed.
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