HELP! Unstable PC. Think its CPU voltage related - D975xbx

[tomos]

hi all, recently built a new PC (spec in sig) and today, twice, the rig has frozen. while watching a vid, the sound repeated over and over and nothing responded. had to hard reboot to recover

now afaik, if its memory, you usually get reboots while if its the cpu - you get lock ups. on top of this, the intel hardware monitoring prog flashes red with the CPU core being ' out of range' frmo 1.8 to 1.2v

to try and work around this i checked out the bios to try and increase the voltage to the cpu a notch but cant find the option! i found ram options, MCH options and host burn in modes and &s but no vcore

i found this on anandtechs site re: overclocking this mobo but i cant find the options

 

[tomos]

well sounds like a new board or a dud buy.someone might put out modified vcores and multis for you.But seems like youve bought an non-clocker, at a time when you really wanted to buy a clocker

EDIT maybe check sound eax options and reduce for sound stability

what? this is nothing to do with overclocking the chip. i havent touched anything in the bios apart from boot options.

the sysem is unstable. i dont think its the RAM and want to change the vcore. why would i buy a new board for that?

 

[tomos]

ta for the reply, but i dont htink its the sound drivers. besides, it would give me an error report from windows itself in that case (had it on another PC).

i do plan to go back a bios or 2 but if that doesnt make a diff, i'll have to try 'the mod'.

 

[tomos]

already memtested it mate

have disconnected USB drives etc also. will see if i can grab one of those conductive ink pens from a local shop tomorrow. if not, will have to leave it as is till midweek