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when i turn on my computer it gets a little spurt of energy where everything turns on for less than .5 second and turns off. after that it starts up normally. does this happen after overclocking? or did i do something wrrong? its at 1.959ghz.
 
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Mine does that too, It's the Motherboard/BIOS in my case as it only started happening when I installed the DS3. Yes, that is the fan you want, make sure it's LGA775 though.
 
That happened with mine too!

Gave me a fright and for somethign like 10 or so boot ups, as soon as it went off, I would flick the switch assuming that it was borked, or maybe I miss-fitted the CPU or something?
 
jtien2 said:
when i turn on my computer it gets a little spurt of energy where everything turns on for less than .5 second and turns off. after that it starts up normally. does this happen after overclocking? or did i do something wrrong? its at 1.959ghz.
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Yes it is normal.
 
Duke said:
Have you upped the cpu + ram voltage, Riiya? It can help.
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I have tried the RAM at 2.2 instead of 2.1 but i have never budged the CPU from 1.45. I know its the ram thats causing the problems tho cos I can get the cou to 3.2 ghz and just test the cpu itself with Orthos (i.e. not blended test).
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Max i seem to be able to get is:

420 FSB
x7 CPU
x2 MEM
2.1v Mem
1.45v CPU

Ive tried higher fsbs with even 2.3v memory, but it makes no diff.
Im new to clocking, but I expect raising the cpu wont make a diff if its the ram thats holding it back.

Cheers, and merry christmas.
 
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tonyyeb said:
Have you tried changing the timings to 5-5-5-15?
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As a matter of fact i just tried them at 5-5-5-18, same fatal error in orthos

Expected less than 0.4 got 0.5 etc
 
Temps

Hmm, whats annoying me now is the temperatures. I was getting 55 degrees max yesterday after running orthos for 10 mins, now I am getting a cap of 60 degrees :/ The system temp is 44 tho , wheras it was around 39 yesterday....sigh lol.

Have I installed the Heatsink right? Its an Arctic Cooler Pro 7.

Which way does the Arctic Pro 7 draw the air, method 1 or method 2?
Im hoping method 1 because thats the way it will suck the air to my case fan

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One thing i noticed about the heat sink is that once installed you can twist it ever so slightly, but its definitely fixed properly.

Worth taking it off and sticking some Arctic Silver on it? Not sure what to do to get the old thermal pad off the bottom tho, plus off the cpu :/
 
Its Method 1

You got the front case fan sucking cool air into the case, possibly over the HD/s and hopefully some will go over the GFX and some under, and therefore the GFX fan should have a bit of flow, but also above too.

You got the rear case fan suking the warm air out.

The general flow, most of the time will be cool air in at the front-bottom and out at the rear/top

And so, the CPU Heatsink fan will be blowing cool air through the heatsink and towards the back

Im very sure ( although I have not looked properly ) that the holes for mounting the coolers are perfectly square, and so, if Im right, then you can also mount the fan at the bottom, so it blows air upwards too!!!

This will have a negative in that the air will be warmer as its drawn over the GFX Card, but positive in that the CPU might be using a 120mm FAN andwill help to suck the air out of the heatsink. This very much depends on the case type however.

Also, please note,that all cases offer different cooling properties.

If you are gettign such high temps, it might not be your cooler thats the problem but it might simply be that your case might be poor at cooling?

I mean, your systems temps being as high as they are, makes me think this might be very likely.
 
Its a Lian Li 7 case. I tried doing what u sed (imagine rotating the CPU heatsink and fan on the above picture 90 degrees clockwise) and I put arctic silver on it instead. No difference, still the same 36/37 degrees idle. But the system temp has gone down to 38/39 from 44 (unless ofcourse its just gonna build up to 44 again).

The voltage of the CPU is 1.45v atm, and I am running it at:

400fsb x 7 = 2.8ghz
400x2 = 800ddr2 ram
2.1v mem
+0.1v on the others

Can 400x7 run on a lower Voltage than 1.45? cant be arsed testing atm.
 
Riiya said:
Its a Lian Li 7 case. I tried doing what u sed (imagine rotating the CPU heatsink and fan on the above picture 90 degrees clockwise) and I put arctic silver on it instead. No difference, still the same 36/37 degrees idle. But the system temp has gone down to 38/39 from 44 (unless ofcourse its just gonna build up to 44 again).

The voltage of the CPU is 1.45v atm, and I am running it at:

400fsb x 7 = 2.8ghz
400x2 = 800ddr2 ram
2.1v mem
+0.1v on the others

Can 400x7 run on a lower Voltage than 1.45? cant be arsed testing atm.
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My god man!

Have you tried running the CPU at lower volts?

Ok, not all CPUs are the same, Il grant you that, but mine has been running at 430 for a few days now and its still on stock volts... 1.275v or whatever?

I recon the volts are far too high and hence the temps...

I know you say you are running a LianLi, but the system temps are very high so I would say that your case air-flow simply isnt up to it.

I got an old LianLi Aluminium case that I have given to my 8 year old son for his PC because the air flow just isnt any good at all... At the time I swpped it for a £25 case cos that was vastly superior for the case temps...
 
Does anyone know why my DVD Drive is not being detected when on Master and gives extremely slow boot up times (5mins) when on Slave...Im guessing its something to do with the motherboard...can anyone help me out?
 
I have had times when this happens, it could be down to :-

1 - Cable or even drive might be iffy

2 - Is there a disk in there?

3 - Compatibility issues with another device?

Does it do this if there is another device on the cable, or does it do this on its own?

What does the BIOS say about the device?

Maybe the BIOS thinks that there is another device on it instead of this one and its not updating properly?
 
Well as theres only one IDE port on the board I have both my HDD and my DVD on the same cable...Depending on if its in Slave or Master depends weather its detected or not... Also when its on Slave mode (when its really slow boot) its keeps booting from the disk regardless of what boot mode its in (BIOS and Boot Menu)
 
Sime said:
Well as theres only one IDE port on the board I have both my HDD and my DVD on the same cable...Depending on if its in Slave or Master depends weather its detected or not... Also when its on Slave mode (when its really slow boot) its keeps booting from the disk regardless of what boot mode its in (BIOS and Boot Menu)
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Sounds to me like you either have a cable select cable and one of the drives not set to cs or the drives are not properly set to "master with slave" and "slave"

If you go into the bios and tell it to auto detect the drives it should pick them up within a second or two. If not then you have the above problem/bad cable or incompatable drives.

You could also try swapping them round
 
hi guys, new to this forum...

Basically i have clocked my E6300 to 2.4ghz and it seems stable.

I am using

Hiper 530 Type R PSU
E6300 + standard stock cooler
DS3 Board Giga
Corshair PC5300 667Mhz Ram
Thermaltake Tsnami Case (3fans)

Currently i have these settings : -

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However, it seems that i cannot go above that...i have tried to clock it to 2.8Ghz but once i open a few programs it'll just freeze and crash....

what can i do?? ay suggestions will help thanks! i have tried to raise the volts to 1.376 but still no good..

**** i increase the DDR2 Overvoltage control to +0.4V? because when u select it, the 0.4v is purple?

(I have disabled the required things i dont use in bios)
I have followed ths guide(below)

Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)
- Press Ctrl+F1 for Advanced Settings
- CPU Clock Ratio (CPU Multiplier) at 7x
- CPU Host Frequency (FSB) at 430MHz
- PCI Express Frequency at 100MHz
- Disable CIA2
- System Memory Multiplier at 2.00 (1:1 Ratio)
- DRAM Timing at 5-5-5-15
- *** DDR2 OverVoltage Control +0.2V (2.0V) ***
- FSB OverVoltage +0.2V (1.4V)
- (G)MCH Voltage +0.1V (1.55V)
- *** CPU Voltage at 1.274V ***

*** Your settings may vary. Some may achieve stability at higher voltage, whereas some may achieve stability at a lower voltage. ***
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your ram will probably be holding you back as you might only be able to get 350. if so you will need to use a multiplier such as 5:4

if your ram can do 2.2v then use it, ignore that its purple.
 
torrentthief said:
your ram will probably be holding you back as you might only be able to get 350. if so you will need to use a multiplier such as 5:4

if your ram can do 2.2v then use it, ignore that its purple.
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I agree. You need some PC6400 memory to go higher really. Take a look at overclockers shop for some geil ultra pc6400 ram - nice overclockable ram.
 
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