Help with mysterious crashes...

[Diggsy]

You IMO *really* cannot troubleshoot instability while not having a known stable non-overclocked baseline... Run everything at stock and see if you have any crashes. If it doesn't crash at stock, then well, it's pretty obvious where the problem's coming from isn't it?

Yeah, I see your point, it was just the fact that it was crashing at idle most of the time, and given I use Speedstep, it was actually clocked less than default (2ghz), that's why I found it really weird.

I still think it might be the PSU at or near it's limit, but I am running stock and will do until it does (or even better doesn't) crash again!

 

[Diggsy]

No crashes yet, but in my recent experience of this setup, that doesn't mean squat

As for the components, bought most from here, but the mobo and gfx card elswhere.

 

[Diggsy]

So, any crashes yet, having had another day or whatnot? I guess I should be more patient.

Nope, still none! Looking good thus far at least. Only problem now is figuring out why the overclock was causing the issues...

Not enough volts? - possible I think

Not enough power from the PSU? - very possible I think

Dodgy CPU? - not likely I think

...or could it be something else? I am really leaning towards the PSU, but I guess it could be something else altogether.

 

[Diggsy]

Cheers for the advice. I am going to do just that as soon as I get the time.

 

[Diggsy]

Just something of an update. For one reason or another I have not been able to use the PC so much over the last week, but it has yet to crash at stock settings! *crosses fingers*

 

[Diggsy]

Still no crashes since returning to stock. Just need to figure out why I was getting them when overclocked.

Time for more headscratching I think

 

[Diggsy]

Okay, got no crashes at all at stock settings so I decided to have a play again.

I read elsewhere that someone had issues with restarts with the CPU VTT voltage anything other than stock 1.2 (I was running at 1.3) so I thought I'd have a go.

Currently running 3ghz at completely stock voltages, nothing raised at all and it seems rock solid. Been running for 3 days like that now without even a single blip.

I wonder if some component was getting just a little too much voltage before and freaking out as a result?

 

[Diggsy]

Yeah, thanks for the tips. Certainly seems that it wasn't happy with a voltage increase. It's running great so far anyway, fingers crossed it stays that way.

 

[Diggsy]

Well, still going strong at 3ghz, not even a hint of trouble yet *crosses fingers after saying that *

 

[Diggsy]

too late kiss the system bye bye

good to see you've got it working

took me long enough to get it sorted, but it seems perfect now that the voltages have been reduced, which I find a little weird, but I am not gonna complain.

Cheers for your help along the way

 

[Diggsy]