Hi all,
I built a PC about a year ago. I've been having some random freezes, lock-ups and BSODs in games and in Windows. These have gotten worse over the last 2 months or so.
I've run the usual tests (FurMark, Prime95, memtest, HDD checks) and swopped in different sound and graphics cards. I've also been posting the BSOD mini-dump files on sevenforums. The conculsion is that, its either a faulty motherboard or PSU or my bios settings.
I put a new PSU in a week ago and its been more stable, but I still experienced a freeze at bios bootup and, upon reset, the message "overclocking failed, press .. to load defaults or .. to enter bios setup".
I want to therefore check my bios settings are correct, in particular the voltages. My motherboard is "Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3" and my RAM is "Corsair Dominator XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 16000C9D Twin3X, 9-9-9-24".
What I'd like to know is what voltages (i.e. CPU, RAM, North Bridge etc) and other important settings should I be using in the bios to maximise stablity and to hopefully stop these lock-ups/ problems ? My RAM needs to run at 1.65v as stated on the sticks themselves, so I've set that ok, but I worry that the CPU voltage and other settings need tweaking.
Note I'm not really looking to overclock at this stage, I want to maximise stability first.
Thanks very much in advance!
jm.
I built a PC about a year ago. I've been having some random freezes, lock-ups and BSODs in games and in Windows. These have gotten worse over the last 2 months or so.
I've run the usual tests (FurMark, Prime95, memtest, HDD checks) and swopped in different sound and graphics cards. I've also been posting the BSOD mini-dump files on sevenforums. The conculsion is that, its either a faulty motherboard or PSU or my bios settings.
I put a new PSU in a week ago and its been more stable, but I still experienced a freeze at bios bootup and, upon reset, the message "overclocking failed, press .. to load defaults or .. to enter bios setup".
I want to therefore check my bios settings are correct, in particular the voltages. My motherboard is "Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3" and my RAM is "Corsair Dominator XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 16000C9D Twin3X, 9-9-9-24".
What I'd like to know is what voltages (i.e. CPU, RAM, North Bridge etc) and other important settings should I be using in the bios to maximise stablity and to hopefully stop these lock-ups/ problems ? My RAM needs to run at 1.65v as stated on the sticks themselves, so I've set that ok, but I worry that the CPU voltage and other settings need tweaking.
Note I'm not really looking to overclock at this stage, I want to maximise stability first.
Thanks very much in advance!
jm.
