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I have a Soyo KT333 mobo Dragon Ultra Edition (Black) for almost 2
years now and just recently it has been giving me problems. My system
is setup with a custom water cooled system, Zalmon heatsink on the
Northbridge and a nVidia 4200 128MB video card in the AGP slot. I just
recently added a modem and Winfax to do some office work. About a few
days later my system has been freezing on me, even when I'm not doing
any intensive work. I've had to reboot every 5-10 minutes.
I finally decided to do a full reformat and re-install of Windows XP
from scratch, thinking it might be .DLL hell that's killing me.
Re-installing went fine with Win XP - SP1, mobo drivers, video driver,
then started to install hotfixes and updates and my system reboot
itself. I then needed to install a small app to get some work done and
my computer froze and rebooted again. I went to inspect my system and
notice that one of my Water hoses were crimped up on the water block
(the weight of the tubing and position was bending it) and probably
slowing the rate of the water.
I fixed that and the flow is great! But, I'm still getting freezes. If
I reboot immediately it sometimes freezes on POST. I decided to let it
cool for a few minutes and then it boots up fine only to freeze again.
During the next reboot I went into the BIOS and into PC Health so I
can take a look at the CPU temp. All the temps are fine (CPU and
Chasis). I even left the case open. Now, I've noticed that the BIOS
screen was getting some video artifacts so I decided to blow clean the
Zalman heatsink and unmount the video card and get a can of air and
clean the cooling unit for the video card. There was a lot of dust
everywhere but I was able to clean EVERYTHING!
Now, put everthing back together and go back in the BIOS screen and I
still see screen artifacts. This time I leave my system in the BIOS PC
Health screen and walk away and come back later to see if the temp
readings are higher. I come back and the screen is jubberish and the
computer frozen.
This answers a few things:
1) My windows wasn't hosed so I didn't need to re-install everthing
from scratch.
2) It's not the Video card.
3) It's not the CPU (temps are good, around 36 degrees C.)
4) Water cooling rig is operating fine.
I don't understand, I've had this same setup for months and EVERTHING
has been fine.
The next thing I'm going to try when I get home is remove the modem
and if that doesn't help I'm going to put a fan blowing in the
computer case and see if the Northbridge is the culprit.
Can anyone else help me diagnose this problem? I'm usually a genius
and can usually solve hardware problems on my own!
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I forgot to add, I decided to upgrade the BIOS to kvxb2aa9 to see if
it helped, but didn't.
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I have a Soyo KT333 mobo Dragon Ultra Edition (Black) for almost 2
years now and just recently it has been giving me problems. My system
is setup with a custom water cooled system, Zalmon heatsink on the
Northbridge and a nVidia 4200 128MB video card in the AGP slot. I just
recently added a modem and Winfax to do some office work. About a few
days later my system has been freezing on me, even when I'm not doing
any intensive work. I've had to reboot every 5-10 minutes.
I finally decided to do a full reformat and re-install of Windows XP
from scratch, thinking it might be .DLL hell that's killing me.
Re-installing went fine with Win XP - SP1, mobo drivers, video driver,
then started to install hotfixes and updates and my system reboot
itself. I then needed to install a small app to get some work done and
my computer froze and rebooted again. I went to inspect my system and
notice that one of my Water hoses were crimped up on the water block
(the weight of the tubing and position was bending it) and probably
slowing the rate of the water.
I fixed that and the flow is great! But, I'm still getting freezes. If
I reboot immediately it sometimes freezes on POST. I decided to let it
cool for a few minutes and then it boots up fine only to freeze again.
During the next reboot I went into the BIOS and into PC Health so I
can take a look at the CPU temp. All the temps are fine (CPU and
Chasis). I even left the case open. Now, I've noticed that the BIOS
screen was getting some video artifacts so I decided to blow clean the
Zalman heatsink and unmount the video card and get a can of air and
clean the cooling unit for the video card. There was a lot of dust
everywhere but I was able to clean EVERYTHING!
Now, put everthing back together and go back in the BIOS screen and I
still see screen artifacts. This time I leave my system in the BIOS PC
Health screen and walk away and come back later to see if the temp
readings are higher. I come back and the screen is jubberish and the
computer frozen.
This answers a few things:
1) My windows wasn't hosed so I didn't need to re-install everthing
from scratch.
2) It's not the Video card.
3) It's not the CPU (temps are good, around 36 degrees C.)
4) Water cooling rig is operating fine.
I don't understand, I've had this same setup for months and EVERTHING
has been fine.
The next thing I'm going to try when I get home is remove the modem
and if that doesn't help I'm going to put a fan blowing in the
computer case and see if the Northbridge is the culprit.
Can anyone else help me diagnose this problem? I'm usually a genius
and can usually solve hardware problems on my own!
----------------------------
I forgot to add, I decided to upgrade the BIOS to kvxb2aa9 to see if
it helped, but didn't.
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