I finally ended up doing a complete reinstall of winxp + via4n1's and that did the trick for me. All volts are stock again and fsb is 140 from 133 (where I've always run it stable) on my xp2000+ & kr7a. Temps are running high but that's because I turned the delta 60x38 fan way down so it would stop scaring the students ...also cheapass suxor 250w psu that came with enlight case!!!
There is a new solution for the locking issue with SSE for Gro work, which involves a new core version that is being beta tested right now. I found this out over at the community forums and I'm presently running it on all my AMD machines, but I just started putting the new core on them so I can't say personally if it solves the issue.
Try this new core out if you are having lockup problems. It is also supposed to be just a smidgeon faster than the 1.55 core too, so you might even want to try it out on your Intel rigs too.
I had a hard freeze a few days ago. Possibly unrelated to the new core. Yesterday the computer rebooted while I was using it. Since F@H freezes the system and doesn't reboot it I'm going to say the random reboot was completely unrelated to F@H. I upped my vCore by .075 volts so we'll see what will happen.
I am running 1.56 on this box.
One thought is that the new core actually works the machine harder. An overclock that was compleetly stable before (3.24 and 1.54) doesn't cut it now.
IC1 experienced it's first lock the other day, which I suspect was due to the heavy overclocks and SSE. I lowered teh overclock for now, until the problem is solved.
I have 4 machines currently locking up using SSE
1) XP 2000+ (this may be the board since its a kt133a board that supposedly doesn't support XP's) -locks on first frame
2) Duron 1.6 GHz @ 2.3 GHz - locks after 5-10 frames while below 40*C. 3 Days folding uptime with no SSE.
3) XP 1700+ @ 2 Ghz - locks periodically after 20-40 frames
4) Centrino 1.4 GHz (laptop probably a heat issue and its not amd duh)
I didn't notice the locking since all by my laptop are my brothers machines and they reset them before I get home. I'm trying that new core and will report results.
I haven't had any problems with any machines locking up using -advmethods, -forcesse, and -forceasm. I don't have any overclocked machines and only run them at 95% instead of 100%. Just thought I'd throw that in for extra info.
qp, one of my boxes is a KT7A running a pally, it never locks. My KT7A running TBird never locks either. Both of these are oc'ed. The 266A mobo running a 2400TBred is the one that I am fighting with. It is oced. It had been at 2.1, now it is 2.07. We will see how it runs.
Temp isn't an issue on any of the boxes.
ok well everything except the centrino (which is definitely a heat issue) and the XP2000+ is folding merilly along. The 2000+ locks instantly when I try to enable SSE. There are some bulging caps on the board so I'm tempting to believe its a power / hardware problem not a software one.
Take that board out of service until you replace those caps, qp. That board might decide to take out some extra components. Those caps are definitely bad and need to be replaced pronto. If that KT133a board is a KT7-A, then you can send it back to Abit and they'll change the caps out for $25, which is a bargain as the caps themselves will cost you more than that to change all the big ones on the board.
I like living on the edge . The caps are actually for the AGP supply and do not regulate the CPU power at all (according to MSI's techs, they won't do crap about it and I'm not willing to start a small claims battle over it atm. IMHO they sold a defective product and are thus liable for repairing it even after the warranty is up). I'm using a PCI vid-card so it works out acceptably but I'm sure the caps screw with more than just the AGP supply. The board is slated for replacement ... sometime. Any recommendations for a solid board that's as cheap as possible and maybe with workable onboard ide-raid (only need mode 1).
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I guess that I will stay with the lower FSB.
Some wu's are much harder on it than others.
Anyways, here is the link for the new beta core to solve the lockup problem. http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/beta-core/
Try this new core out if you are having lockup problems. It is also supposed to be just a smidgeon faster than the 1.55 core too, so you might even want to try it out on your Intel rigs too.
One thought is that the new core actually works the machine harder. An overclock that was compleetly stable before (3.24 and 1.54) doesn't cut it now.
1) XP 2000+ (this may be the board since its a kt133a board that supposedly doesn't support XP's) -locks on first frame
2) Duron 1.6 GHz @ 2.3 GHz - locks after 5-10 frames while below 40*C. 3 Days folding uptime with no SSE.
3) XP 1700+ @ 2 Ghz - locks periodically after 20-40 frames
4) Centrino 1.4 GHz (laptop probably a heat issue and its not amd duh)
I didn't notice the locking since all by my laptop are my brothers machines and they reset them before I get home. I'm trying that new core and will report results.
KingFish
Temp isn't an issue on any of the boxes.
MSI KT6V-LSR.
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