D0 I920 and Gigabyte EX58 UD5 issues.

Hmmm, I dont really think a bright red PSU would look very nice in my Silverstone chassis...

I have made my mind up, I'm going for the 750w BeQuiet Dark Power Pro...

I like the modular cable design of the BeQuiet, it would mean I would have less wires to hide inside the case that way...

Although at the price of the PC P&P, I would have managed to get it this week, but tbh, I would rather just wait til I had the money for the BeQuiet! one instead...

750w will be more than enough for my system right?
 
Well, I dont know what has happened, but now my system seems to be fine!!

I decided to try testing each module one at a time but in the 2nd white slot instead of the first one that I had tried before, and I had read somewhere else online that raising the QPI/VTT voltage a little bit might help stabilize it..

So I enabled the XMP profile, and I raised the QPI/VTT from the 1.35v that XMP sets it to 1.355v, and I managed to run memtest on each stick for 5 hours without any issues..

Then I installed all three modules, and tried running memtest again, it went perfectly for about 3 hours 30 minutes, and then it froze...

So I tried giving Prime a go after that, and it has been running perfectly for 20 hours without any issues at all...

I am still going to get a new PSU for this rig, and I have decided to get another 6GB of RAM, as I noticed you can get a 6GB set of 1333MHz G-Skill RAM for £42 which is a great deal... Hell, I paid more for 4GB of DDR2 about a year ago!!!!
 
lol, nooo, I wont be running the G Skill alongside the Corsairs!!!

I just want somemore RAM to test, and I want to eventually build another i7 box for my fiancee, but I can't afford to go out and buy everything at once...

I'm still unsure about my own rig, because as you know from following my thread, I have managed to get it stable with the 6GB of RAM installed before, and then all of a sudden it would start playing up again...

This current run of Prime has been going for 22 hours now, I will stop it when it gets to 24 hours, and then I will start installing my games and see how that goes...

I'm going to be getting my Dark Power Pro 750w PSU next week... and hopefully the new RAM to...

The reason I built this i7 rig in the first place was so I could have loads of fun overclocking it and have a super fast system, but I have ended up with a system that wont even run at its rated specs without crashing and locking up on me..

This really isn't what I would call fun....
 
Well, the crashing has started again with this rig...

Somebody suggested that I should test out the IntelBurnTest software to check my rig for stability, so I gave it a go, I used the Maximum Stress setting, and ran 8 threads and choose to run it 5 times, and it managed to complete 1 out of the 5 runs, and just as it was getting to the end of the second run, it comes up with an error telling me that my system is unstable!!!

So I decided to drop everything back to stock settings in the BIOS and test again using the Burn Test software, and the EXACT same thing happened again, at the same place!!!

No matter which settings I choose in the BIOS the burn test crashes, even with the RAM running @ 1066MHz...

I talked to someone on the Phone at OcUK's technical help line today, and to begin with he told me it was my RAM, then he went on to blame the mobo, and in the same breath he then said it was my PSU!

I will never get anywhere with this PC when people at technical help try and blame every single piece of hardware inside my case...

He also told me that I wouldn't be able to return my CPU for testing, even though it was only purchased on the 6th of May... Surely this isn't correct is it??

I was already given an RMA number from another person at OcUK about a week after I got it...

I dont want to wait until I get my new PSU to test everything and find that the same faults are still present, because that will take even more time, and by then I definitely wont be able to do anything about returning the CPU...

I thought these OEM processors have 1 year warranty on them???

Why cant I return the Processor if I think that it may be faulty???

I can run Prime95 overnight with the CPU running @ 3.5GHz and the RAM @ 1400MHz, but IntelBurnTest crashes after about 6 minutes.... Surely if burntest crashes as quickly as it does, this would mean that there is something wrong with my system??

And it does this EVERYTIME, no matter how what I have the BIOS settings at.. even running RAM at 1066MHz...

Does anyone know of any decent places that I could send my system to have it repaired?
 
Thanks for the reply Plec...

It only seems to be IntelBurnTest that is causing the problems.. I am testing with OCCT atm, and it runs without an issue, same as Prime95...

I haven't used memtest recently, the last time I used it, it ran for over 3 hours, but when I came back to check on it, my PC had froze, and the bottom half of the screen was all corrupted...

But when I ran it with only one module installed it went the entire night without any errors...

Would you class 3 hours of memtest without any errors stable??

When I run OCCT it passes every stress test available on there except the Power Supply one... It completes the test, but it comes back showing 28 errors...

And also when I look at the graphs it creates at the end of the test, the graph for the 12v shows some really weird inconsistencies...

Check out this graph to see what I mean:

2009052915h19volt12.png


Surely this can't be correct??

When I run the CPU tests on OCCT, the 12v only goes up to 6v at the most...

And every single piece of software that I have used for monitoring voltages has shown the 12v like this...

I hope the new PSU will resolve these annoying problems.. I am sick fed up of this crap!!!

I got more enjoyment out of my old Dual Core Athlon rig that I do with this thing.. And the Athlon system cost about a quarter of the price of this machine!!!!
 
Thanks again Plec, you are very helpful!!!

Well, I managed to get my rig to pass 5 runs of IBT @ maximum stress level with my CPU @ 3.32GHz and RAM @ 1400MHz...

Someone on Corsair Support Forum told me to set IBT to run 16 threads because there is some kinda problem when you select 8 threads... or at least this is what he told me... I was kinda suspicious about all this, as I thought I would only need to have 8 threads running on my CPU...

Anyway, I tried this out, and sure enough, it worked like a charm, and my system passes the test no sweat!!!

But I still get crashes when I try running OCCT.. it keeps giving me errors and stops working, however it doesn't seem to be freezing, BSOD'ing, or reseting itself anymore which is a good thing IMO!!!

I really dont understand this PC at all... how can the problems come and go like this??

I guarantee when I wake up tommorow and turn my PC on and run some tests the problems will be back again...

I'm really gutted right now, as I will have the money to get my PSU this week coming, and I really wanted to get the 750w Dark Power Pro unit from OcUK shop but they dont have any in stock right now... and I dont want to have to wait for them to come into stock again...

So it looks like I either buy another unit, or I get the BeQuiet! one from somewhere else... I would prefer to get it from here though TBH...
 
Hi again Plec,

This sounds like a good idea, although, you say to run bench tests that my rig passes everytime, and there really isn't any benchmarking tool that it does pass everytime!!!

It has even started giving me BSOD when I am doing simple things like web browsing, and also background services have started randomly crashing as well...

So it would appear that whatever it is that is giving me the problems is slowly starting to get worse...

I think I should really stop putting all this pressure onto my system until I get a new PSU, because the last thing I want is for the PSU to go bang and also take out other pieces of hardware at the same time, that would be devastating!!!

I will be ordering a new PSU this week, so I don't really have long to wait...

What Happy has said about the system resetting itself when it is placed under stress sound a lot like my rig tbh...

Although sometimes it will freeze, BSOD, or just stop running the software because of errors... I am hoping to god that the PSU is the cause of this..

I got a reply back from people at Corsair today, and the guy said to me, because I have tested each RAM module individually and memtest never found any errors, that the problem isn't due to the memory, and more to do with the processor not being "overclockable"!!!

Even though the problems happen while the processor @ stock frequency??

I personally think that the guy is talking nonsence...

There have been times when I have had the CPU running @ 3.5GHz and RAM @ 1400MHz, and it has been solid for 2 days running Prime, OCCT, and IntelBurnTest without a single error, or reboot...

Then the next day I turn it on and experience problems...

If the crashing still happens with a new PSU, I will have no other option but to RMA everything back to the suppliers to have them tested properly...

But as I said, things seem to be getting worse, because it has BSOD'ed on me twice already today when I have just been browsing online, and Superfetch service has closed down, and also got an error with Firefox as well this morning...

It never done this before,, so this would indicate to me that whatever is causing the problem is getting worse...
 
Man, now it has started crashing Prime95 Blend test with the RAM @ 1066MHz...

I know I said I would give my system a break, but because of these new crashes, I decided to put everything back to stock speeds to see if it would run stable, I booted up with optimized defaults in the BIOS, and then fired up Blend test in Prime, and all threads stopped because of errors after about 1 minute!!!

Something seriously is messed up here...

I am getting extremely stressed out because of this.. I wish that there was somewhere I could send my rig off to have it properly tested by professionals...

The PC shop near me do offer a repair service, but I personally wouldn't trust those guys with my rig, they dont have a clue tbh, the shop only stocks AMD processors, and low end graphics cards... When I asked them about the GTX280 before I got mine, they never even knew they existed...

Same with Core i7... they thought I was talking about Core 2 processors!!!

I talked to someone at OcUK the other day, and he told me that they are thinking about starting up a repair service, which would be awesome, I would trust them with my system 100%... But he didn't know when they were planning on starting this...
 
I will be buying my new PSU on Wednesday, as that is when I get the money...

The last time I ran memtest was 2 days ago now, with all three sticks installed, running @ 1600MHz, and I finally stopped it after about 10 hours I think it was, and no errors were found... However, that was before this random crashes started happening..

Do you think this type of behaviour could be caused by a PSU that is going bad?

One part of me thinks that it is, and then another part of me says it is something else..
It is driving me up the wall, I really should just leave it alone, but I keep going back for more!!!

I tried what you suggested earlier in this thread, I downloaded Furmark, and I set Prime95 on a small FFT run, and then started running Furmark, and it managed to finish the test on furmark with Prime running in the background...

It is really weird, because I am unable to run a Blend Test, or Large In-Place FFT's without the program stopping most threads or all of them because of errors, but if I choose small FFT's it will run quite happily all night without a problem!!

I also tried to run small FFT's and 3d Mark Vantage, but 3D Mark managed to load up the first test, but failed to start, it just froze as soon as the loading bar reached the end... However I was able to Ctrl/Shift/Esc to task manager and close it down, and Prime was still running...

I don't understand, I thought this would have ground my system to a hault...
 
The local PC shop doesn't even stock DDR3 memory!!!

They only keep 2 different motherboards in stock.. a crappy mATX board, and an ASRock AM2+ mobo!!!

I plan on ordering 3GB of RAM at the same time as my new PSU.. however I am unsure which modules to go for... there is the 1333MHz G Skill stuff for £28 that I am thinking about buying, or I could get 6GB of OCZ Platinum 1333MHz for £55 from the clearance memory section...

At least if I get RAM as well as a PSU I will be able to rule out two things from my system...

I was wondering, are any of the Coolermaster PSU's on here any good?

Like this one for instance?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-147-CM&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1103
 
Or I can get the 850W Xigmatek NRP-MC851 from elsewhere for £140... I like the look of the Xigmatek PSU, and the review I read said it was a really decent unit...

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Sorry for double posting, I meant to edit my last one!!!

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Well, I just went downstairs to make some hot chocolate before I goto bed, and I had noticed that my i7 rig was still powered up even though I shut it down about 20 minutes ago, so I turned on my monitor and it had Blue Screened, it must have happened during the shutdown process...

It said something like "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"..
 
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I still like the Be Quiet, but the only place I have found cheap DDR3 triple channel RAM is here, and I don't want to buy my PSU from one place, and the RAM from another because that means paying postage twice!!!

I can get the 750w Be Quiet PSU from another place, but they dont have any cheap DDR3 RAM...

Will 750w definitely be enough power for my rig???
 
^^^ Grrrrrrr!!!

Who wants an i7 rig???

I feel like smashing it to pieces, seriously!!

I just ripped the Hiper PSU out of my rig so that I can't fiddle about with it until I get a new PSU... I think it is for the best, because I am just causing myself to get stressed out!

I stuck the Hiper into my Fiancees Dual Core Athlon rig so that she can use my old 8800GTX instead of the nasty 8500GT 256MB she had installed previously...

As for the IRQ errors, I don't have a clue what they are all about, and why they are happening... I will be able to rule out the RAM on Thursday when I get some new modules and new PSU that is if it comes the next day after ordering...

However, I am hoping that it is just the PSU that is giving me these headaches, as I can't be bothered RMAing things... It is a PITA having to strip down my PC and return items back to the seller...

Not ideal at all... but if RAM or mobo is the culprit, then I will have no choice but to return them.....
 
I am really glad that you have been here along the way with me on this nightmare of a journey Plec, your posts have helped to assure me with this problem..

You have been extremely helpful, and I appreciate it...

I cant say for sure whether a new PSU and RAM will resolve these problems, but at the very least it will help to narrow things down so that I can find the EXACT cause of this problem, whereas I am unable to do that with the hardware I have here...

I think I am going to get this RAM instead of the G Skill modules, as I have used OCZ RAM on several of my builds in the past, and I have never had a problem with them, but I have never used G Skill before, so I don't know what the quality of their products will be like, and @ £28 for 3GB of DDR3 there must be something wrong with it!!!!

I will be placing my order tomorrow, I am hoping that OcUK get either those new Corsair HX PSU's or the Be Quiet units in stock by then, but if they haven't then I will just have to shop elsewhere...

Also, I have decided to go for an 850w PSU instead of 750w, just so that I know I will have plenty of power there....

I can get the Be Quiet 850w somewhere else for £145...

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I just got a reply back from people at Hiper group, and the guy there also thinks that this problems are being caused by my PSU.. Here is a copy of what he said to me:

I think I will have to agree with the majority and say that a higher wattage PSU will fix your problem, as it seems your current setup is on or around the border for the HPU-4M630. This may explain why you are sometimes getting the BSOD and okay the rest of the time.
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I will find out on Thursday when my new gear arrives...
 
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I will be keeping the RAM as well as the PSU, as my Fiancee wants a new rig as well, so I will slowly start buying up components for another build as and when I have the spare money...

But what you have suggested would have been a good idea if I didn't plan on keeping it...

I really can't wait until Thursday so that I can install the new PSU and see if it clears up the problems I have had...
 
Lmao...

That sounds only to familiar to me.. Even the "Britains got Loons" thing!! :D

I really wish that I knew people in my area who were into PC's as much as myself, it would be really handy TBH... at least I could loan components to further test my rig on my own...
 
Well, that's my new PSU and RAM ordered.. I had to buy from elsewhere though unfortunately...

I went with the 850w Be Quiet Dark Power Pro, and 3GB of Corsair XMS3 1333MHz RAM... total was around £197..

It should be arriving tomorrow hopefully, I cant wait!!!

I love getting new hardware!!!!!
 
I will keep you posted on this thread Plec, and thanks again for being here to help me out man ;)

Fingers crossed it is just the PSU, as I can't be bothered with the hassle of RMAing goods... but if I have to I will obviously...
 
Well, the new PSU and RAM was a total ******* waste of money, I installed the PSU, fired up my rig and loaded optimized defaults in the BIOS and then set the XMP profile on the RAM for 1600MHz, and then loaded up Vista and started up a Blend Test in Prime, and the rig BSOD'ed in an instant..

I went back into BIOS and set RAM timings manually, loaded up Windows then fired up a Blend test and yet again another BSOD, with the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message at the top...

So then I decided to try out the new XMS3 RAM, and I get the EXACT same fu**ing thing...

Surely I haven't been sold a dodgy processor from OcUK???

At this precise moment, I just feel extremely upset, as I have spent well over £1500 on this build in total, and it doesn't even run stable at default settings...

What else can I try now???
 
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