Spec:
XP Pro 32bit (i know i have 4gig but i'm awaiting a 64 bit OS)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB)
Akasa AK-965 (CPU temp doesn't go above 30 degrees)
Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L Intel P43
Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 'XXX edition' 512MB GDDR3 (i haven't seen it go above 63 degrees)
PSU Corsair Memory 650W TX SERIES ATX (still under guarantee)
3 SATA HDDs
1 DVD-R
My computer crashes using Furmark and in Crysis. It crashes in Furmark after about 20 seconds and the temps are fine. Crysis crashes after about 10 minutes or so - but again the temperature of both Gfx card and cpu are fine - very cool in fact. Both types of crash are very similar in look and the fact that i have to do a hard reset. And other games so far seem to run fine - such as WIC and Bioshock.
However, i've checked the rails on my psu through Easytune and the BIOS itself and the values are as follows:
3.3v - 3.312v
12.0v - 11.795v
Obviously i'm not worried about the 3.3v rail but the 12v rail does all the grunt work and it seems quite low - is it within an acceptable tolerance - or is this the reason that my computer keeps crashing/freezing?
The computer is not clocked and i have run memtest and stressed the cpu. The above is the only problem i'm left with - apart from that the computer seems stable.
I have upped the cpu voltage and i have just upped the pci to 102 - no luck. I'm totally stumped - no idea what to rma even if it is a hardware problem.
Any advice grateful as this is proving to be the most frustrating build that i've ever done.
Plec
XP Pro 32bit (i know i have 4gig but i'm awaiting a 64 bit OS)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB)
Akasa AK-965 (CPU temp doesn't go above 30 degrees)
Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L Intel P43
Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 'XXX edition' 512MB GDDR3 (i haven't seen it go above 63 degrees)
PSU Corsair Memory 650W TX SERIES ATX (still under guarantee)
3 SATA HDDs
1 DVD-R
My computer crashes using Furmark and in Crysis. It crashes in Furmark after about 20 seconds and the temps are fine. Crysis crashes after about 10 minutes or so - but again the temperature of both Gfx card and cpu are fine - very cool in fact. Both types of crash are very similar in look and the fact that i have to do a hard reset. And other games so far seem to run fine - such as WIC and Bioshock.
However, i've checked the rails on my psu through Easytune and the BIOS itself and the values are as follows:
3.3v - 3.312v
12.0v - 11.795v
Obviously i'm not worried about the 3.3v rail but the 12v rail does all the grunt work and it seems quite low - is it within an acceptable tolerance - or is this the reason that my computer keeps crashing/freezing?
The computer is not clocked and i have run memtest and stressed the cpu. The above is the only problem i'm left with - apart from that the computer seems stable.
I have upped the cpu voltage and i have just upped the pci to 102 - no luck. I'm totally stumped - no idea what to rma even if it is a hardware problem.
Any advice grateful as this is proving to be the most frustrating build that i've ever done.
Plec
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