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Hi
I wonder if any of you experts can help a poor confused country boy..
I recently bought a whole new rig in bits from OcUK, please see sig for a list of some of it, I've still to get it running properly after a week of messing about.
The problem is that it reboots itself repeatedly..... No please don't leave!!! I know its another "It Reboots" thread but I badly need your help....
I've searched for and then read so many threads on here of people having similar issues to myself and so have followed some of the excellent advice given to them, one of which was to run it outside of the case, so last night I completely stripped it down, cleaned off the artic silver, re-fitted cpu, tuniq tower etc and plugged it in outside of case.
It reboots so often that I've only just gotten Vista installed after a week of trying as it kept bombing out halfway through the installation.. So I've had no indication as to what the problem has been as it would simply shut down like I'd pulled the plug, and then it would post again.....
I've swap leads, hard drives, memory sticks in memory slots, upped RAM voltages from 1.9 to 2.1, I've pulled and poked and scratched my head until I could scream like a girly (of course I wouldn't cos I'm from the North and we're dead'ard.... erm.. yeah.. ) anyway.... although it kept rebooting I have eventually gotten vista installed for what use it is as the damn thing still reboots but the last time it just blue screened and gave the error message
"A clock interrupt was not recieved on a secondary processor within the alloted time interval"
Now this is the first message that I've been able to get from the machine and would like to know if it may indicate that it is my Q6600 that is faulty and is causing the constant reboots
I have been able to swap out the hard drive and have also alternated memory sticks so feel that I have removed them from the "may be faulty" list.... although this still leaves, cpu, mobo, graphix card, sata optical drive.. The first three I'm stuck with, I could replace the optical with an IDE version..
I'm hoping that the error message above is a sure fire indicator of a problematic cpu so that I can nail down the problem and finally get a system that I can use as intended.
Thank you very much in advance for any help you guys can send me way.
Cheers n Beers
Dave
I wonder if any of you experts can help a poor confused country boy..
I recently bought a whole new rig in bits from OcUK, please see sig for a list of some of it, I've still to get it running properly after a week of messing about.
The problem is that it reboots itself repeatedly..... No please don't leave!!! I know its another "It Reboots" thread but I badly need your help....
I've searched for and then read so many threads on here of people having similar issues to myself and so have followed some of the excellent advice given to them, one of which was to run it outside of the case, so last night I completely stripped it down, cleaned off the artic silver, re-fitted cpu, tuniq tower etc and plugged it in outside of case.
It reboots so often that I've only just gotten Vista installed after a week of trying as it kept bombing out halfway through the installation.. So I've had no indication as to what the problem has been as it would simply shut down like I'd pulled the plug, and then it would post again.....
I've swap leads, hard drives, memory sticks in memory slots, upped RAM voltages from 1.9 to 2.1, I've pulled and poked and scratched my head until I could scream like a girly (of course I wouldn't cos I'm from the North and we're dead'ard.... erm.. yeah.. ) anyway.... although it kept rebooting I have eventually gotten vista installed for what use it is as the damn thing still reboots but the last time it just blue screened and gave the error message
"A clock interrupt was not recieved on a secondary processor within the alloted time interval"
Now this is the first message that I've been able to get from the machine and would like to know if it may indicate that it is my Q6600 that is faulty and is causing the constant reboots
I have been able to swap out the hard drive and have also alternated memory sticks so feel that I have removed them from the "may be faulty" list.... although this still leaves, cpu, mobo, graphix card, sata optical drive.. The first three I'm stuck with, I could replace the optical with an IDE version..
I'm hoping that the error message above is a sure fire indicator of a problematic cpu so that I can nail down the problem and finally get a system that I can use as intended.
Thank you very much in advance for any help you guys can send me way.
Cheers n Beers
Dave
Other things would be to try spare components. it is unusual to get a faulty CPU, usually it is RAM or motherboard related. So yeah try memtest.
