Help please

ClutchClutch North Carolina New
edited October 2004 in Hardware
This post is for EgoShowcase, his computer is down now and we are trying to find out why. It started when he was installed Desert Combat mod for BF1942. It goes to 80% then crashes to the NF7S sirens. He ran memtest with no errors but it did crash when Prime95 started to run. He has took out one stick of memory and it did the same thing. He is not overclocking anything so nothing is overheating from what I can tell.

He just got this motherboard because his one prior was dead. Could it be the PSU failing? Or maybe both sticks of ram?


He has an Athlon XP 220+, 2x512 corsair platinum, NF7S motherboard, 450w switching PSU.

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  • EgoShowcaseEgoShowcase North Carolina
    edited September 2004
    Any ideas anyone?
    Ive removed a stick at a time with no help
    comp runs fine under normal use but crashes under stress. i cleared cmos still nothing.... Im runing out of ideas. maby mobo prob. power supply craping out. errr bad carma
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited September 2004
    Have you installed MBM on it yet? If not, then install it and monitor your temps and volts and see what's happening. If the psu is going away, you should see a voltage drop on one of the rails when you load the processor up I would think. Same for the temps too.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    I was having a similar problem just the other day, and upping the DDR voltage cured everything. Bump up the DDR voltage to 2.6 and give it a shot.
  • EgoShowcaseEgoShowcase North Carolina
    edited September 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    I was having a similar problem just the other day, and upping the DDR voltage cured everything. Bump up the DDR voltage to 2.6 and give it a shot.

    My ram was already runing at 2.6 so i bumped it to 2.7 and 2.8 with no help.
    muddocktor wrote:
    Have you installed MBM on it yet? If not, then install it and monitor your temps and volts and see what's happening. If the psu is going away, you should see a voltage drop on one of the rails when you load the processor up I would think. Same for the temps too.

    I cant get the .exe to run on m comp. I keep geting "This Program must be run under Win32"

    Anyone else have a ideas? Im really considering giving up on computers all together.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Either a bad PSU or motherboard, at this point.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Check your temperatures under load.

    I have an NF7-M here at work that dies with sirens when running a VB application, further investigation showed the CPU cooking in the rack case @ 70c.
  • EgoShowcaseEgoShowcase North Carolina
    edited September 2004
    Shorty wrote:
    Check your temperatures under load.

    I have an NF7-M here at work that dies with sirens when running a VB application, further investigation showed the CPU cooking in the rack case @ 70c.

    Temp if fine.
    primesuspect wrote:
    Either a bad PSU or motherboard, at this point.
    New motherboard but it could have came in defective.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Yeah, don't discount it. I had a brand new mobo "bad out of the box" just last week - on a time-critical server, no less :werr:
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    go to clutchs comp steal the mem and test it in your pc
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2004
    Did you just get the NF7? If so did you reinstall the OS it just plug the new one in with old drivers?
  • EgoShowcaseEgoShowcase North Carolina
    edited September 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    Did you just get the NF7? If so did you reinstall the OS it just plug the new one in with old drivers?

    I replaced my old nf7-s with this new one. thay are both version2. the only dif is the new one has a updated bios

    and if its the mobo then.... argggggggggggg i got it from bestbuy caus i didnt want to wait for newegg to ship it. and i think the return policy is expired


    And can anyone tell me how to get the .exe that you d/l from there site or S-M to run? (motherboard moniter)
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited September 2004
    Go to this page here and click on the LiveWire icon on the right. That is the latest .exe version of MBM.
  • EgoShowcaseEgoShowcase North Carolina
    edited October 2004
    i still cant get the exe to work. I asked Clutch to try it and he gets the same thing
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    steal Clutchs PSU and give it a shot
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited October 2004
    haha, I love your thinking Gnome ;)
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    EgoShowcase wrote:
    I replaced my old nf7-s with this new one. thay are both version2. the only dif is the new one has a updated bios

    and if its the mobo then.... argggggggggggg i got it from bestbuy caus i didnt want to wait for newegg to ship it. and i think the return policy is expired


    And can anyone tell me how to get the .exe that you d/l from there site or S-M to run? (motherboard moniter)


    if you bought the mobo from bestbuy, and if it really is the mobo gone bad, u can still get a replacement from bestbuy.

    I had a sony monitor went bad on me before, and i bought it from bestbuy.
    it went bad 2 month after i bought it, and i still could get it replaced from bestbuy.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    Maybe a different BIOS will help you out.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Ok, since no one have suggested that you check in the health thing in the bios, do that. Look at the values for 3 minutes and write down every one of them. Voltage, temperatures, voltage readings. Write down the lowest and highest of each value. (the fluctuation). I know, the winbond chip isn't 100% trustworthy, but since you can't even load an .exe file, reading the bios values could help us helping you. I have a feeling that the psu is about to die. Also, is the fan straight over the heatsink for the cpu? The reason i ask is that i currently use an amd heatsink, stuck on the heatsink with sealstring (sticky rubber). The fan have fallen off many times, practically making the cpu passived cooled. Until i knew what happened i couldn't start any app at all and after a few minutes, the pc powered down. Worth a check.
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