- Mar 5, 2007
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Hello,
My system is a bit older and I've been having some problems with it lately (and they've been getting worse).
Things started with CTD's when playing games - that got more frequent as time went by. I thought it was the
video card at first and up'd the voltage to it, reduce the speed to 4x AGP, etc. - all helped a little, but only
for a short time. Soon I was back to crashing to desk top as frequent if not more then ever.
I ran memtest86 for 24 hours with no error. I tried Orthos and it ran for about 16 hours before the system blue screened.
When I restarted it, I went into bios and poked around. I had the Vcore set to default voltage of 1.4V, but the Bios reading was showing under 1.3 (around 1.28). So i thought this was probably the culprit and I upped the Vcore
to 1.425 - but it still showed in Bios under 1.3. When I upped it to 1.45, it finally came up into the 1.3 range - fluctated between 1.328 and 1.344V according to the BIOS. I last tried 1.47V but still saw the same readings -
of course now I'm lucky if I get into BIOS at all. The system isn't even booting far enough most times to get into
BIOS and when it does, after a short time in it locks up on me.
Is it my cpu or are the VR's on my mobo shot? I hope I didn't fry the cpu by playing with VCORE but according to my last BIOS readings I was still well below default voltages.
Any thoughts on what it could be or what to do next? I was hoping to hold off on a full system upgrade until early next year - anyone know of a decent, cheap 939 boards with AGP (or I could go 939 with PCI-E and bite the bullet on the upgrade on the GPU now, even though I just bought this card about 8mo's ago).
Thx,
Sdrac
- by the way, the PSU is fine. In BIOS the readings are 12.16V, 5.08V and 3.34V. I also checked with a Multimeter and got 12.01V and 5.1V (not sure why BIOS was a bit off - I trust the MM more then BIOS).
My system is a bit older and I've been having some problems with it lately (and they've been getting worse).
Things started with CTD's when playing games - that got more frequent as time went by. I thought it was the
video card at first and up'd the voltage to it, reduce the speed to 4x AGP, etc. - all helped a little, but only
for a short time. Soon I was back to crashing to desk top as frequent if not more then ever.
I ran memtest86 for 24 hours with no error. I tried Orthos and it ran for about 16 hours before the system blue screened.
When I restarted it, I went into bios and poked around. I had the Vcore set to default voltage of 1.4V, but the Bios reading was showing under 1.3 (around 1.28). So i thought this was probably the culprit and I upped the Vcore
to 1.425 - but it still showed in Bios under 1.3. When I upped it to 1.45, it finally came up into the 1.3 range - fluctated between 1.328 and 1.344V according to the BIOS. I last tried 1.47V but still saw the same readings -
of course now I'm lucky if I get into BIOS at all. The system isn't even booting far enough most times to get into
BIOS and when it does, after a short time in it locks up on me.
Is it my cpu or are the VR's on my mobo shot? I hope I didn't fry the cpu by playing with VCORE but according to my last BIOS readings I was still well below default voltages.
Any thoughts on what it could be or what to do next? I was hoping to hold off on a full system upgrade until early next year - anyone know of a decent, cheap 939 boards with AGP (or I could go 939 with PCI-E and bite the bullet on the upgrade on the GPU now, even though I just bought this card about 8mo's ago).
Thx,
Sdrac
- by the way, the PSU is fine. In BIOS the readings are 12.16V, 5.08V and 3.34V. I also checked with a Multimeter and got 12.01V and 5.1V (not sure why BIOS was a bit off - I trust the MM more then BIOS).
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