Outstanding issue, advice please.

lffpicard

lffpicard

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Hope anyone can help i have had this issue for some time.

First the problem:

Sometimes when i have had to restart my pc i have noticed my frame rate hits rock bottom, and also i have noticed a lot of other things are sluggish. Ram seems slow, HDD transfer rates are slower, basically everything is slower. It normally takes turning off the PC, turning off the PSU and draining the power (Press the power till it beeps a few times) leave it for about 1hour and turn it all on again and then everythign is fine.
Everythign will stay fine untill either, PC crashes or auto update restarts it. I usually get 3-4days out of the machine until i have to repeat the cycle.


Now. The interesting thing, someone on the nvidia forums was complaining of low fps aswell, he also mentioned after looking at the Nvidia contorl panel it showed his PCI-E being only x1.
I decided to take a look. when my pc is running on low FPS sure enough my PCI-E is showing as x1. Today i have turned it on after being left off overnight and everything is fine and my PCI-E shows as x16

I first thought it was my PSU as it is one of the only items in the machine that was not originally replaced before Vadim went bust. Either the power is not supplying properly, i have a dodgy rail or something. But now i am pen to suggestions, I would liek to narrow it down as best i can as i dont want to pay out for a PSU i cant afford if it is not goign to fix it.

Any ideas anyone?

System Specs:

OCZ DDR2-1150 2x1024MB FlexXLC Edition Dual Channel Kit
BFG Nvidia 8800GTX OC 768Mb PCIe HDCP
Samsung SH-S183 SATA 18x DL DVDRW Black
Asus P5K Premium Wi-Fi (Intel P35 - 1333 FSB Conroe/Penryn) (replacement from P5N32-E SLI Plus)
320Gb Samsung SpinPoint T166 HD321KJ 7200 16mb Cache SATA II
LiquoCool Antarctic D (CPU+VGA+Chipset)
Enermax Galaxy Modular 850W PSU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Retail (4x2.40GHz 1066FSB 8Mb) G0 Stepping
SONY-NEC Optiarc AD-7203S SATA 18x DVDRW Black OEM
Icy Box 16-in-1 internal/external USB Card reader (Black)
Creative 7.1 X-FI ExtremeGamer Fatal1ty
Windows XP Home Edition
 
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Silly me i forgot to mention what i have done.

The PC is a new install of Windows XP Home from about 4days ago.
Before installing i had run memtest and HUtil on 2loops and no issues at all.

The machine is overclocked with water cooling, but i have also tried it with out overclock aswell and still get the same problem.

Thanks for the reply.

EDIT:
My friend just found this witch i will also give a try, my issue is not constant but intermittant but hopefully the fix is the same
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=522
 
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First test.

Based on that website i changed the NB Voltage it was on 1.55v i changed to 1.4v witch was closest option.
PEF Force x1 was already disabled.

PC has booted up fine. but i will need to restart a few times to check.
 
Well..

Strabgly enough i fixed it with just that voltage change.
I had a game running for 8hours on max settings and my pc crashed, thought i was going to have a problem. But as soon as i restarted everything was fine again...

So problem solved Thanks for the help Huddy and usefull linky, i bookmarked it
 
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