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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
 
Cheers Pea0n

Only problem is, it seems to have moved into a "**** you" loop, it won't boot into Vista at all now, it just keeps rebooting, time after time................ someone kill me and put me out of my misery for gawds sake..............
 
Hi Wiggins

Yes mate I check them regularly, CPU temp in the high teens to low twenty's and system temp in low numbers too, but expected as the mobo is outside of the case at the moment and the Tuniq is working well

Can't understand why its rebooting constantly... :confused:
 
Alright lads

Wiggins: Strange that you should say that but while I was temporarily in Vista I ran the performance index and got a 5.9 on everything but the Ram which gave a much lower score which suprised me as I thought I'd bought decent RAM with the OCZ Reaper

I do have only one stick of RAM in at anyone time, I've tried different sticks in different slots with no change to the rebooting issue..

Pea0n: All cables appear to be correct, currently running with minimum connections i.e. no fans or other jumpers connected, simply H/Drive, Optical Drive, Graphic card etc

Machine is currently looping in a rebooting frenzy.... I'm so sad its not even funny...
 
Hi Smackhead

Which fan are you referring to fella?

As far as temps go I actually don't think that is the problem as it can reboot as 'soon' as I turn it on from cold, it runs through the post, looks like its about to run windows and then poof!! back into the post again.. :(

I'm going to temporarily fit an IDE h/drive and IDE optical drive to get rid of the SATA pair and see if either of them or their respective ports are the probem.

Cheers for the input mista.

Dave
 
hmmmmmm well I've swapped out the sata h/drive and optical drive for IDE versions, installed xp and am currently running prime95 and haven't had a single hiccup in 3 hours....

Could all of my nightmares over the last 10 days be simply down to sata drives???
 
But that sounds like an OS corruption issue, I've had this thing rebooting since its first build nine days ago, so much so that installing an actual OS was nigh on an impossibility as it would keep rebooting during installation...

I've since swapped hard drives, leads, RAM, RAM slots, rebuilt it all again, rebuilt as minimum spec outside of case (current state) and finally gotten some success once I've taken the SATA drives out of the equation..

It's currently running slick with an old 40gig IDE h/drive rather than the SATA II Barracuda and the Pioneer optical drives that I originally bought..

I'm struggling to believe that all of my headaches and heartaches over the last week and a bit are down to SATA drives...

My questions are.. Why??? followed by... What do I do next??
 
Hi Smackhead

My card seems to be running ok, mind you I'm suprised at just how much warm air it kicks out, I'm currently running Prime95 and have been for a few hours, I'm about to install 3DMark 06 which will push the card so we'll soon see what this bad boy can do...

I'm just at a loss as to what to do next, of course I want my Barracuda H/Drive and new optical back into the rig but this is the first time that I've had an actual working PC...

I'm hoping that some of the more experienced guys will get involved with this thread to give me some direction

Dave
 
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