- Aug 26, 2012
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Hey all,
Lightning recently fried my old motherboard. I was going to use this as an opportunity to upgrade but decided to wait until next year. In the interim, I bought some parts to repair my old rig.
I apologize if this is partially complete, I am having to work on this in spurts.
I re-used my E8400 core2 and dropped it into an ASRock motherboard and bought some GSkill ram that had a 10% rebate. After putting everything together I am having an issue getting the system stable. It will get to "starting windows" then it locks up/reboots or blue screens (still looking for the bios setting to disable auto restart on system failure). I used to have the cpu overclocked to 3.8 but the new motherboard does not let me fiddle with the vcore, so I am going to let the cpu run stock.
The system is sitting at 30-31 celsius, so I don't think it's a heat issue.
The question:
Did I miss something w/ the compatibility between RAM + MOBO + CPU?
Details -
Parts:
System settings:
I've been banging my head against this (and a dead PSU) for a little while now. So any help is greatly appreciated.
Edited for clarity:
I am working through this sticky (and its links): http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/288241-31-buyer-guides-troubleshooting-tips
I've also let windows run it's memory diagnostic. My next step will be to try to dig up memtest on an ubuntu disk.
Lightning recently fried my old motherboard. I was going to use this as an opportunity to upgrade but decided to wait until next year. In the interim, I bought some parts to repair my old rig.
I apologize if this is partially complete, I am having to work on this in spurts.
I re-used my E8400 core2 and dropped it into an ASRock motherboard and bought some GSkill ram that had a 10% rebate. After putting everything together I am having an issue getting the system stable. It will get to "starting windows" then it locks up/reboots or blue screens (still looking for the bios setting to disable auto restart on system failure). I used to have the cpu overclocked to 3.8 but the new motherboard does not let me fiddle with the vcore, so I am going to let the cpu run stock.
The system is sitting at 30-31 celsius, so I don't think it's a heat issue.
The question:
Did I miss something w/ the compatibility between RAM + MOBO + CPU?
Details -
Parts:
System settings:
■ Bios version: v02.67c
■ CPU Frequency: 333
■ RAM frequency: Have tried both 533 and 667 (I set the jumper for this as well)
■ PCIE Frequency: 100
■ FSB/CPU clock ratio: 9
■ DRAM timings 9-9-9-24 (I've tried both auto and 2n for the command rate)
■ North Bridge voltage: 1.23
■ DRAM voltage: 1.5
■ Vcore: 1.24
■ +3.3v : 3.364
■ +5v: 5.064
■ +12v: 12.408
I've been banging my head against this (and a dead PSU) for a little while now. So any help is greatly appreciated.
Edited for clarity:
I am working through this sticky (and its links): http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/288241-31-buyer-guides-troubleshooting-tips
I've also let windows run it's memory diagnostic. My next step will be to try to dig up memtest on an ubuntu disk.
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