problems with current mobo? if so what boared should I get?

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agnor my other noobish posting I might get a admin to disregard it, I can't really reuse it:/

basic into to this one, no noobish nonsonse this time.
1. is my mobo deing or HDDs or both
2. what boared should I get as a replament once I sorted RMA for the same price as mine( i noticed a few x48 boareds are close to my currnet Maxuismis 2 formular in price)

anyways my problems

1. it takes a few restarts before the comp will get into windows and stable enough to use, this happens all the time.
2. crashes in EVERY game after a certin period of time, for no reason... nothing is over heating... perforamce is fine that it just blue screens of death and restarts.

I ve had this boared since oct 2008 and I used to be able to play games as much as I liked with very few problems if any on the same settings as now.


may I attach a PIC on to this thread?


my specs than
thermaltake 700watt
q6600 OC model @3.6 voltage 3.9 9I would drop that)
1* sapphire HD4870 512
2* optical drives one blu ray
4Gb OCZ 1066 DDR2 platuim edtion
maxumis 2 formular P45 ROG(sorry about spelling)
2*250GB seagete hdds on raid "stripe" mode for perforamce

now the computer has a ABS/TAGAN 1100WATT piperrock EZ.. the problem started after I had a OCZ 800WATT eliteXstream powersupply unit it was faulty.. could this have damaged my HDDs or my mobo or a matter of both, I can't get the thing stable anymore =( with ethoir thermaltake or my new tagan =(

I don't mind blue screens but if they are very often its annoying and for the same things..these blue screens seems to relate to BIOS, the mobo is on the latest BIOS strange thing is that it didn't start this till after I had the Eltite Xstream and I had problems with voltage while my comp was runing with it.
with my new tagan I have no voltage problems at all, I just can't keep the comp stable no matter what I do :| it did this with my thermtake 700watt which I had one I first built this computer nothing else has changed :|:confused:

Ran HDD test only failed on the self drive test.

if the mobo is faulty what X48 mobo can I replace it for, for around the same price as £170 which I brought it for? I will consider gigabyte,asus(of course) and DFI maybe some others with persading. and on DDR2 wand onces that are VERY good overlockers and forgiving like my currernt ROG USED to be.. of course one that will last me

thank you for your time :)

I have blue screen or a bit of it nnot sure if I can attach it to this or not
 
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Firstly if you do decide to replace your MB I recomend mine, asus rampage formula, very good board, slightly more than what you paid but not too much
Secondly to find out what is wrong with your system now you need to go back to scratch, reset all your bios settings to default, so you have no overclock, see if you still get any problems, it may be that the different PSU's supply slightly different volts and thats thrown everything out. So as I say go back to stock speeds and see if you still get errors. Other things you can check are your memory, using memtest, and run defrag on your hard-drives, it should discover if you have any corrupt sectors. To be honest it sounds like your OC has become unstable so I think the first solution of resetting to stock and starting again with your OC should work, fingers crossed
 
I will hold back in RMAing the baored for the moment and try that, memory still runing at 1066 which its supposed to or nock it back as well ? as well as its voltage.

the Rampage was on my mind, but at the moment its quite a bit more expansive than mine, I know OCUK could replace it with something of the same value or slighty cheaper than, but I dealt with a ramage formular :/ don't know through. Like is says it does it with a powersupply that ran it when the computer was first built.

*changes everything back to stock*

I changed everything back to defualts and ran the memory test, there is one worring thing, it does not pick up my chipset which I throught it would:| it was close to crashing on me as well at times I will have to try some other stuff that it didn't like.
 
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So did it pass memtest?
What program didnt pick up what components chipset?
And how do you know it was close to crashing? Surely it either crashes or doesnt? Theres not generally a warning when something is about to crash
 
indeed on the screen for memtest I found it did something odd, its meant to say what chipset you are on? yes?

it didn't I m sure wehn I first got it I was able to find that out easy.

it don't seem to be as stable anymore thats but it that way, what I meant by close is it did hang and lock up for a few seconds, again something it never did even oc'e

the HDDs past the DOS based seagte tools so they are dempend okay. :eek:

OCUK just told me to send the boared back to them to see for sure, it sounds like it is faulty everytime i put pressure on *** boared it starts crashing...I will be around till tomoz, when I get some sort of anti static protection for the boared to rap it in lol
 
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AMG said:
, it sounds like it is faulty everytime i put pressure on *** boared it starts crashing...
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put preassure on it? where abouts and why ? remeber motherboards are made out of pcb mostly so by bending it slightly you could be creating a tiny crack in the circuit board causing it to crash
 
not that kind of pressure. OC it in other words, I managed to get the FSB up to 333 with very few issues the CPU is runing at 1.4 volts through, not sure if it should I hear it should but never mind.
 
that would be stupid for anyone to do, and shocking :P I bet if one did do that while it was runing the mobo would give em a shock.

any terms of pressure or stress would be in terms of work load and or voltage or anything over "stock" settings

well I m sending it back tomoz, see if that sheards any light on the situation if its not fautly than it must be something else, but I can't send back my CPU I have no boxing for it -.-

one more question, is the q6600 meant to run at 1.4 volts ? I don't think so somehow
 
run coretemp, that will tell you your chips rated Vid (different for each chip - or batch of chips anyway) this is the voltage it should run at without OC, fairly certain it wont be as high as 1.4, but 1.4 is not excessive to use whilst OC'ing, just dont go much over this - believe quads do have higher limits than duos though so not sure of a quads max voltage exactly, sure someone else can help you out there
 
well I set the CPU @1.4 volts and nocked up the NB to about 1.7 (kinda high I know) with the cpull @1.7 and its failed the OCCT test and the voltages was all over the place, aaprt from the 3.3 volts and the 12 volts they are the only onces that stayed with spec well within spec, compre the powersupply to the reviews and it was doing the same, so its defo not that. the computer didn't crash is time. So it may not be the overclock its the mobo, like one or two of the capiters has gone or a regurlator has been cooked :|
 
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