Freezes and Crashes
Hi all, it's not an emergency but I couldn't think of a better category for spontaneous crashes.
I've previously overclocked to 3.4GHz, I've been experiencing crashing, so I put the settings back to defaults (2.67GHz). Now, every time I play Medieval 2: Total war, when I start a battle my PC freezes. It plays the normal frozen sound, where it repeats the last 0.5 seconds of sound very fast over and over again, a bit like cheap techno music. Once that happens the PC is totally unresponsive except for pressing the power button. Anyone got any ideas as to what is wrong? I've been playing loads of games before, even at the same time at 3.4hz and it hasn't crashed, only recently has it started crashing, and more and more frequently. Temps are fine )Idle: Core 0 = 15, Idle: Core 1 = 13).
UPDATE: This is no longer an "onoz, game crashes" post. I clicked "check volume for errors" and that resulted in an instant crash... I smell a reformat Any halp?
I've previously overclocked to 3.4GHz, I've been experiencing crashing, so I put the settings back to defaults (2.67GHz). Now, every time I play Medieval 2: Total war, when I start a battle my PC freezes. It plays the normal frozen sound, where it repeats the last 0.5 seconds of sound very fast over and over again, a bit like cheap techno music. Once that happens the PC is totally unresponsive except for pressing the power button. Anyone got any ideas as to what is wrong? I've been playing loads of games before, even at the same time at 3.4hz and it hasn't crashed, only recently has it started crashing, and more and more frequently. Temps are fine )Idle: Core 0 = 15, Idle: Core 1 = 13).
UPDATE: This is no longer an "onoz, game crashes" post. I clicked "check volume for errors" and that resulted in an instant crash... I smell a reformat Any halp?
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Usually that's what that CMOS error means, you have a timing setting out of whack.
Tested with Orthos:
Launching 2 threads...
Using CPU #0
Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.
Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 1, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 0 minutes 18 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted.
They can and they can't really overclock memory before installing it. They make memory that is better for overclocking but it's not really overclocked until you put it in a board and then overclock it. But they can (if they got finicky) choose not to warranty it because just because it's better designed to handle overclocking they can't guarantee that it'll run at whatever specs you try and push through it....
Bottom line don't tell them you overclocked it.
I could argue this all day. But it's not overclocked - outside of it's own specs unless you do that on your board. So for all intents and purposes it's a 1066mhz chip of ram that is backwards compatible.
However, the overclocking is covered under warranty. I thought it was the RAM, glad you've got a fix under way.
Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 0 minutes 55 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted.
It would also help us if you posted your computer specifications. That's one of the reasons many of us post specs in our signature - not for bragging rights, but for information purposes.
At this point, if your NB cooling is good, I am betting on stubborn overclocking settings that won't erase as planned. The first thing to do when an overclocked system gets snotty is to fully erase the overclock and start clean and clear. If it then runs OK not overclocked, you probably have identified the problem. Also, keep in mind that when overclocking goes bad to the point of hurting hardware, RAM is usually the first victim. GL!
Northbridge uses a regular heatsink
Unplugging the power and removing the motherboard battery clears my CMOS fine. The RAM is working fine, and 1 and 2 are single channel. I've tried reducing the overclock/removing it completely but it seems to be the RAM slots that are being bitchy. Unless you suspect my NB is overheating?
The problem might be my northbridge actually.. it's hot to touch
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If you can, return or exchange that RAM for one that is approved. If not, you can sell it or try to play with timings to "make it work" on your board. Bad break there bud.