Hi guys,
I'm after a little brainstorming session and hopefully some advice on my problems. My PC spec is in my sig, altho it's not overclocked at the mo (apart from the gfx card).
Recently, I've experienced some slightly odd crashes and instability. Of course when these crashes happened, I clocked the PC back, tested it, tried overclocking again etc. After a period of of a few weeks, my PC has ended up back at stock speeds with no crashes, but I do have some other problems that have developed since.
Now, I get very strange hardware lags, where my mouse and keyboard don't respond correctly to my input. This happens predominantly on Call of Duty 2 multiplayer. During these 'hardware lags', my ping is fine, and my gf's PC next to me has a perfect ping and no lag (we're sharing the same ADSL connection via a router and both play CoD2). I also experience seperate ping spikes when once again my gf's ping is normal. These two symptons are mutually exclusive (they never occur simultaneously).
Originally I suspected that my RAM had developed a fault. I came to this conclusion because whenever I set my CAS latency to 2.5, my PC crashes upon booting windows, yet it's fine enough to run Windows, PS, DW and CoD2 running CAS 1.5 or 2. However, memtest tells me otherwise, and I simply can't get any faults to show on the RAM no matter what settings I use (within reason, of course!).
Next my finger pointed to the memory controller in my Venice CPU. It seems odd that CAS 2.5 is unstable, yet CAS 1.5 and CAS 2 are stable enough to run windows and play CoD2.
Now I'm thinking that it could be my Ultra-D mobo, as I'm using the onboard nVidia LAN to connect to my router (might explain the ping spikes perhaps).
Basically, I'm a bit stuck as to what to try next to attempt to isolate the problem. I don't want to RMA the mobo or the RAM if they are not the culprit. I guess if it's the CPU then I simply have to buy a new one (Venice 3000+ running at 2.66Ghz probably won't be covered by warranty
)
Any advice on what to test next would be much appreciated! I don't have easy access to any other s939 CPUs or mobos which is a pain. I do however have access to some Crucial Value DDR, altho I'm pretty certain that it's not the RAM at fault anyway. I'll try some benchmarks and stuff over the next few days to see if they give me any more ideas.
Cheers,
Nami
I'm after a little brainstorming session and hopefully some advice on my problems. My PC spec is in my sig, altho it's not overclocked at the mo (apart from the gfx card).
Recently, I've experienced some slightly odd crashes and instability. Of course when these crashes happened, I clocked the PC back, tested it, tried overclocking again etc. After a period of of a few weeks, my PC has ended up back at stock speeds with no crashes, but I do have some other problems that have developed since.
Now, I get very strange hardware lags, where my mouse and keyboard don't respond correctly to my input. This happens predominantly on Call of Duty 2 multiplayer. During these 'hardware lags', my ping is fine, and my gf's PC next to me has a perfect ping and no lag (we're sharing the same ADSL connection via a router and both play CoD2). I also experience seperate ping spikes when once again my gf's ping is normal. These two symptons are mutually exclusive (they never occur simultaneously).
Originally I suspected that my RAM had developed a fault. I came to this conclusion because whenever I set my CAS latency to 2.5, my PC crashes upon booting windows, yet it's fine enough to run Windows, PS, DW and CoD2 running CAS 1.5 or 2. However, memtest tells me otherwise, and I simply can't get any faults to show on the RAM no matter what settings I use (within reason, of course!).
Next my finger pointed to the memory controller in my Venice CPU. It seems odd that CAS 2.5 is unstable, yet CAS 1.5 and CAS 2 are stable enough to run windows and play CoD2.
Now I'm thinking that it could be my Ultra-D mobo, as I'm using the onboard nVidia LAN to connect to my router (might explain the ping spikes perhaps).
Basically, I'm a bit stuck as to what to try next to attempt to isolate the problem. I don't want to RMA the mobo or the RAM if they are not the culprit. I guess if it's the CPU then I simply have to buy a new one (Venice 3000+ running at 2.66Ghz probably won't be covered by warranty
)Any advice on what to test next would be much appreciated! I don't have easy access to any other s939 CPUs or mobos which is a pain. I do however have access to some Crucial Value DDR, altho I'm pretty certain that it's not the RAM at fault anyway. I'll try some benchmarks and stuff over the next few days to see if they give me any more ideas.
Cheers,
Nami
