considered unstable?

entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
edited April 2004 in Hardware
just a few mins ago (while reading a folding .doc on this site actually) my comp just ... reset itself. like if you do a hard reset by pushing the reset button. at first i thought i broke my monitor somehow but it all went under. booted up perfectly fine, after. it was only rebooted about an hour ago, BUT aside from occasional restarts the fans/cpu...everything has had power coursing through them for about 2 weeks. not sure if maybe that's why but i doubt it. so how many times and how often do you have a random crash before you think i should back off the overclock? the temp was only at around 20*c when this happened, too.

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  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    sounds to me like theres some kind of crash. i'd run memtest86+ for a couple passes, see if its a memory instability
  • rykoryko new york
    edited April 2004
    random reboots could also be associated with psu issues....check the stability of your 12v and 5v rails
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited April 2004
    always wondered what those are lol. how do i check them?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Actually random reboots are most often associated with RAM.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    Actually random reboots are most often associated with RAM.

    You got in a second before me. heh...
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    i got there before either of you, keep that in mind
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
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  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    mmmm chocolate chip
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited April 2004
    those are not chocolatechips in that cookie..

    Knowing Thrax, its pieces of.... Intel chips...


    GObbles
  • rykoryko new york
    edited April 2004
    Originally Posted by entr0py
    always wondered what those are lol. how do i check them?
    MotherBoardMonitor or you can just check in your BIOS


    to the rest.......mmmmm.......cookie :buck:
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    I'm so hungry... I get off in 20 minutes. Must... stop... going all day... without... food...
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    i know we've hijacked this thread, and i apologize, but i do that all the time trekky. when i do it its because im sitting around all day going "im hungry, but i can always eat later" and then by 7 i'm fricking starving
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    No way! Cookies are filled with nummy goodness, so it's only natural that delicious AMD chips would be in my cookies. Yes, it's tragic to see those harmless, Virtuous AMD chips dip into the cookie dough.. But I know for it's a good cause!

    Unless I'm trying to kill you -- Then you'll eat prescotts.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    oh on top of the possible memory prolbem, you said "the temp was only at around 20*c" which is honestly not possible if you're talking about cpu temp. either youre using an asus board and/or your temp probe is broken
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Yes, your temp is wrong. If you are running fully loaded (folding) it will be over 40C.

    How many reset before I back off? I expect ZERO resets. I get a few months at a stretch out of OCed folding boxes running w2k between boots.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited April 2004
    it's a gigabyte board, and it wasn't folding, either. totally idle (except for IE). and this is what it says in mbm5 in windows, when in bios, idling around 24. found the volt rails, 5v never wavered, ever. currently, +12 is at 11.49, lowest is .43, highest is .55, average is 11.49. those numbers mean nothing to me, so if someone could interpret...(btw i'll run memtest in a bit). lol it's ok if it's been hijacked, 1) draws more attention to it and 2)i could really use some cookies :S
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited April 2004
    yep, problem with memory. when i shut down (just after posting my last msg) i got one long beep until the power was totally off. then, i booted memtest86, set it to run all the tests (not sure if this is default, but i did it for insurance). came back a bit later and lo and behold, an error! damn! here's what it said

    tst 11
    pass 0
    failing address 000025bfac0 - 37.9MB
    good fffeffff
    bad ffffffff
    err-bits 00010000
    count 1
    chn 0


    i havne't a clue what that means, so there ya are
    EDIT: SiSoft Sandra pro says my memory (after benching) is at 83% efficiency...god knows what that means but it may or may not help
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    83% is damn low, but you have fairly poor RAM in the first place.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited April 2004
    well, i wonder if that's because it's overclocked and becoming [more] inefficient, or because it isn't in dual channel, and it's saying it's running at 83% of what it could be...
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Entr0py:

    I hate to say it, but any failure means you have a bad stick of ram. You need to replace the one that's bad. Sorry :(
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited April 2004
    damn. damn damn damn. :banghead: think if i backed it back to 2.8 and see whta happens it'll change? cuz before i overclocked, i ran 8 straight-through tests without a single error :bawling:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Yes, it's entirely possible that it's overclocked too much.

    As an aside, Sandra reports memory efficiency from theoretical maximum of your current configuration. If it was comparing you to dual channel, your efficiency would be down around 45%.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    UNSTABLE???

    Is sOMeOnE tAlKiNg AbOuT ME??? ;)
  • DisvengeanceDisvengeance
    edited April 2004
    You could also try running memtest with one stick at a time, just to see which is possibly bad.
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