Hey guys. About a month ago I upgraded from my dell box to a nice conroe setup you can see below in my sig. About the only thing I kept was the RAM and the 3 harddrives. The Audigy 2 wasn't originally from the dell anyway.
My system works very well, nice enough 3DM06 scores and good SuperPi times. Certainly much better then my P4 3Ghz and 9800Pro. But there does seem to be a problem with the memory. I'm not sure why this is happening as because of my overclock to 300FSB the memory is on an 8:5 divider and so is only running at 187mhz and I've manually set it's timings to its usual 200mhz level that it used on the dell. Theoretically it should be more stable or atleast that what I'd have thought.
I keep getting crashes in games like Med2: TW and X3 Reunion. It just freezes up solid with some god-awful screeching from the speakers until I have to reset. The funny thing is it will always about 5 minutes into the game stop responding and the sound will stop completely. However it only takes about 10 seconds to come back to life and after that it is fine until the bad crash that kills the computer.
Now I was having some trouble with my audigy 2 and this motherboard as well but I was pretty sure I had most of the problems fixed after a complete clean install. Oddly the onboard sound causes worse problems then the audigy 2 ever did.
When I run memtest in windows I get an error after anywhere between 5% and 25%
So there are several possible problems:
1: The RAM could be borked, damaged possibly in the install or from overclocking attempts or maybe it was already damaged and just somehow managed to run ok in the dell computer.
2: It's the motherboard that's the problem. It is pretty cheap and could be causing the errors in memtest.
3: The Audigy 2 is still giving me trouble with the board.
It just occurred to me that I could put the memory back into the dell and run memtest on that and see if that's the problem. I'm currently rebuilding the dell with parts that I can scrounge off people for my gf.
My system works very well, nice enough 3DM06 scores and good SuperPi times. Certainly much better then my P4 3Ghz and 9800Pro. But there does seem to be a problem with the memory. I'm not sure why this is happening as because of my overclock to 300FSB the memory is on an 8:5 divider and so is only running at 187mhz and I've manually set it's timings to its usual 200mhz level that it used on the dell. Theoretically it should be more stable or atleast that what I'd have thought.
I keep getting crashes in games like Med2: TW and X3 Reunion. It just freezes up solid with some god-awful screeching from the speakers until I have to reset. The funny thing is it will always about 5 minutes into the game stop responding and the sound will stop completely. However it only takes about 10 seconds to come back to life and after that it is fine until the bad crash that kills the computer.
Now I was having some trouble with my audigy 2 and this motherboard as well but I was pretty sure I had most of the problems fixed after a complete clean install. Oddly the onboard sound causes worse problems then the audigy 2 ever did.
When I run memtest in windows I get an error after anywhere between 5% and 25%
So there are several possible problems:
1: The RAM could be borked, damaged possibly in the install or from overclocking attempts or maybe it was already damaged and just somehow managed to run ok in the dell computer.
2: It's the motherboard that's the problem. It is pretty cheap and could be causing the errors in memtest.
3: The Audigy 2 is still giving me trouble with the board.
It just occurred to me that I could put the memory back into the dell and run memtest on that and see if that's the problem. I'm currently rebuilding the dell with parts that I can scrounge off people for my gf.
