Two problems with K8N Neo, comments/suggestions?

[Gaothfanai]

First off, everything I've got in this K8N board are components I had in a (now dead) EP-8RDA+ mobo, and confirmed working in other systems, just to be sure.

Memory is 512x2 Mushkins
Graphics is NVidia Geforce FX 5200


The two problems are:

1) about 2 or 3 times a day, while playing DAoC, the machine simply shuts down. gone, poof, not cold boot, but shutdown. Booting up immediately everything works as normal, and the problem isn't associated with heavy load on the graphics processor. The time it takes for this to manifest is random - anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours.

2) I've yet to find the actual cause, but at some point the onboard 1Gb port seems to stop working, and the only way to fix this is to remove the driver and reinstall it, at which point it will work fine until the next time it somehow craters. The problem persists between warm and cold resets, the only way to fix it is to reinstall the network driver. I've downloaded the latest release driver from NVidia, doesn't fix the problem.

I've got a 2800 processor, and have swithced to running failsafe defaults (and no, this is not acceptable) to see if this fixes any problems - I got the above two problems regardless whether I was overclocking or not, and did nothing agressive to start with as I never do when first getting a new mobo (had it a total of 4 das so far).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[mechBgon]

Try raising the memory voltage to 2.7 volts if it's on Auto at the moment. Also, is the power supply a good-quality brand, and how much wattage is it rated for?

 

[Gaothfanai]

It was on auto, and I've raised it, as well as the default agp voltage to the yellow range (was low, in red settings for it). The Power supply is a good one, and rated at 400w.

Thaks, I'll post my results, although that doesn't seem to do anything for my networking issue (I may have to bite the bullet and run a pci network card, unfortunately).

regards,
Mark

 

[FiberoN]

I had the same shutting down issue on mine while playing Unreal Tournament 2004 for hours. Turns out I had a heat problem. A Vantec Tornado and some sound absoribing material, it's a porblem of the past. Must be a heat problem you have. Try getting a good fan in the front of your case to cool your northbridge.

 

[Gaothfanai]

Thanks for the help folks, I've yet to have the shutdown problem again, but I'm still plagued by my 1Gb integrated network adapter going south on me - every time it does this, removing and reinstalling the driver seems to fix it - until the next time( once or twice a day). I'm at a loss as to why, but hoping someone else hs at least seen this problem and can shed some light for me. There's no correlatoin to idle time, or anything else I can figure out.

Regards,
Mark