Okay, so I built a new computer 2 days ago and all was working well. My specifications are:
ASRock X58 Extreme LGA 1366 Motherboard
Intel i7 920 CPU
6GB DDR3 1600 RAM (OCZ)
600 Watt OCZ PSU
Seagate 750 GB HDD
Sapphire Vapor-X ATI Radeon 5770
I installed Windows 7 just fine and everything was working. My CPU was running rather hot (60c idle) so I decided that the next day I would reinstall the heat sink and get three more fans. I installed the fans and it booted fine. However, after maybe an hour of usage the screen froze. I rebooted and after maybe 20-30 minutes same thing happened. This time I just shut down my computer. Both times when it shut down I was browsing the web.
Today, it just restarted on me instead. After some tinkering with the fans it seems to be running fine. My CPU temp is 38-39c right now. It has been about an hour and a half so far. Only things I changed were I updated the BIOS, took one of the fans off the MOBO and onto the PSU, and plugged the PSU into a wall socket instead of a surge protector (I highly doubt this changed anything but I thought I should list it). At this point I went into the motherboard and began to pinpoint what was wrong. The first time I ran the BIOS I had to manually clock my RAM to 1600 and change the timing to 8-8-8-24 and the the voltage to 1.654V. This worked fine then. After updating the BIOS I had to do this again.
At this point it seems that my computer is running just fine, but my motherboard LED is giving me the AA error code. After looking it up I got this: Uninstall POST INT1Ch vector and INT09h vector. Deinitializes the ADM module. I don't really know what this means, but after some google searching I'm 99% positive it involves my RAM speed. This sort of leads me to believe I my system shutting down randomly was perhaps unrelated to this problem and I had just never noticed the LED error before. Any clue on how to fix this error, though? I'm thinking I need to go into the BIOS and change the settings, but I don't know what I need to change them to. Any help is appreciated - my thanks in advance. If you couldn't tell already, this is my first computer to build and I don't know too much about computer technicalities (at least not of this sort).
ASRock X58 Extreme LGA 1366 Motherboard
Intel i7 920 CPU
6GB DDR3 1600 RAM (OCZ)
600 Watt OCZ PSU
Seagate 750 GB HDD
Sapphire Vapor-X ATI Radeon 5770
I installed Windows 7 just fine and everything was working. My CPU was running rather hot (60c idle) so I decided that the next day I would reinstall the heat sink and get three more fans. I installed the fans and it booted fine. However, after maybe an hour of usage the screen froze. I rebooted and after maybe 20-30 minutes same thing happened. This time I just shut down my computer. Both times when it shut down I was browsing the web.
Today, it just restarted on me instead. After some tinkering with the fans it seems to be running fine. My CPU temp is 38-39c right now. It has been about an hour and a half so far. Only things I changed were I updated the BIOS, took one of the fans off the MOBO and onto the PSU, and plugged the PSU into a wall socket instead of a surge protector (I highly doubt this changed anything but I thought I should list it). At this point I went into the motherboard and began to pinpoint what was wrong. The first time I ran the BIOS I had to manually clock my RAM to 1600 and change the timing to 8-8-8-24 and the the voltage to 1.654V. This worked fine then. After updating the BIOS I had to do this again.
At this point it seems that my computer is running just fine, but my motherboard LED is giving me the AA error code. After looking it up I got this: Uninstall POST INT1Ch vector and INT09h vector. Deinitializes the ADM module. I don't really know what this means, but after some google searching I'm 99% positive it involves my RAM speed. This sort of leads me to believe I my system shutting down randomly was perhaps unrelated to this problem and I had just never noticed the LED error before. Any clue on how to fix this error, though? I'm thinking I need to go into the BIOS and change the settings, but I don't know what I need to change them to. Any help is appreciated - my thanks in advance. If you couldn't tell already, this is my first computer to build and I don't know too much about computer technicalities (at least not of this sort).