Major help needed... is this an OC'ing error or OS error?

[itpromike]

Ok I've about had it with this board... So after all the issues with getting this board booted some time ago and then ordering a new board and having even more troubles with that one(switching out ram to get a good boot etc.. and having to use a different ram stick to boot almost every time) I finally got this thing running stable (or so I thought?). It's been up and running for a little over a month now stable at 3.5ghz. So I'm using my pc yesterday and I start up firefox and get an error...so I tried it again and another error... then I had another error popup on my screen before my pc decided to reboot. When it rebooted it went through the windows bootup process then bluescreen at the login screen...'irql not les than or equal too' or something like that....so it rebooted again... and AGAIN at the login screen I get another error message 'memory handling error' ok... so then I go into bios and adjust the vcore voltage to 1.48 and booted into windows, got passed the login screen and then BOOM another freaking bluescreen. So THEN I lowerd my nbcore and raised my memory core and I got into windows finally... BUT NOW my network card can't get an ip address from my router and I have no sound. No audio device found is what I get... and my NIC card is there but it cannot acquire an IP... So I uninstall my sound card and nic card and reboot again... but before it boots I go into bios to set my settings back to the original voltages and settings... (385x8, vcore 1.4625, memory@2.25, sb 1.65) ok so now I boot into windows and YAY my sound card is there, but my nic still cannot get an IP. So removed and installed my NIC yet AGAIN and BOOM my sound and NIC are both gone once again... I'm stumped. I even defragged and then uninstalled and reinstalled the nic/sound again to no avail... ANY IDEAS?!?!
I'm at my witts end, I don't know if this is an issue with my OS or if this really is a motherboard issue or a PSU(which I highly doubt) or what????

 

[akahuddy]

What board?

 

[GregF]

It sounds to me that your northbridge and southbridge voltages are wrong. I had a problem with this board where the audio gave problems - whenever the processor was loaded, the audio would be very jerky. I eventually diagnosed it to overvolting the northbridge!! Very unexpected, since the northbridge isnt directly connected to the Analog Devices soundmax audio module. I lowered the NB voltage from 1.65v to 1.55, and could achieve nearly the same OC speeds (not quite as high of course). Note that when this board is running at FSB of 350-400, the NB is seriously overclocked, and you need a high NB voltage. After 400, the 1333 strap kicks in and the NB isn't as badly overclocked. However then your memory bandwidth falls quite substantially.

 

[itpromike]

Well in an interesting turn... Last night I was playing around with it and one of the nic ports on my mboard the light would turn on when it was plugged into the router, and the other one would not turn on at all... Then I lowered my nbridge voltage and they both came on, and my sound card re-appeared as well. But now my sound card is 'there' and I can go into it using creative sound panel but when I go into volume control in windows it says no sound device detected... Yet I can hear sound just fine and use the creative panel, but not the windows volume control. When I double click the sound icon in my system tray it says 'no mixer device installed' I've uninstalled and re-installed the sound card several several times and it's the same issue. My sound card is listed in hardware manager, but when I double click the speaker icon in my system tray it says no mixer device installed and when I go into control panel in windows it says no audio device is detected... But I can hear sound just fine lol... and I can use the creative labs sound panel. This is sooooo weird... suggestions?

 

[AdamBomb42]

It sound's like you didn't lock you PCI bus.

 

[Bungsta]

The creative labs mixer is supposed to replace the default windows speaker icon that is normally used for volume control. If you want to control your mixer with the windows one, I believe there is an option in the creative control panel somewhere that says "synchronize with windows audio mixer" or something to that effect. If that isn't it, you could try uninstalling the onboard sound and disabling it in the bios.

 

[itpromike]

My pci bus is locked at 33 =\
Any other suggestions?

 

[itpromike]

The creative labs mixer is supposed to replace the default windows speaker icon that is normally used for volume control. If you want to control your mixer with the windows one, I believe there is an option in the creative control panel somewhere that says "synchronize with windows audio mixer" or something to that effect. If that isn't it, you could try uninstalling the onboard sound and disabling it in the bios.

You sure about that? Even if that is so...when I go into control panel and go into sounds etc... it won't let me even go into the sound schemes etc... everything is grayed out and it is says at the top of the sound properties 'no audio device detected' and what's even lamer is that the applications that I have previously installed work fine with my sound card... but if I reinstall an app or game or if I change any of the settings that were there before any of this started then that app or game is no longer able to detect a sound device... This is so strange...this is a very confusing issue as I don't know if it is my pc or my os that could be causing this...

 

[Bungsta]

Well, if you have an extra hard drive you could install windows on it, and see how things go. If you decide to try that, unplug your main hard drive first.