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demon8991

demon8991

demon8991

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OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 840 "95W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3)
Asus M4A88T-M AMD 880G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Ultra Low Voltage Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3P1600C9ELV4GK)

Hi guys,

I built my grandad the above setup and i am having some odd problems with it, the boot up seems to hang for about a minute on the windows loading screen before loading up to the desktop. The system is also just switching itself off and turning back on again in completely random intervals?

What could be wrong?
 
Look up what your mem timings should be. I'm guessing the bios is set to auto and sometimes it can make a hash of it.

Memtest is good yes, I have used the windows vista disk in the past also as it has a mem check built in (cant remember if the win7 disk does). Go from there bud and come back to us
 
Brilliant thanks for the help guys much apprecaited.

Out of interest what should the timings for the memory be?

I will probably come back with a result in a week as i am not seeing him until the weekend.
 
Set the timings manually to 9-9-9-24 (CL-TRCD-TRP-TRAS), DRAM Command Mode to 2, memory speed to 1600MHz and memory voltage to 1.35V

Of course we can't rule out faulty modules. Try those settings if it is still flaky run the mem test

*edit* I took those timings from another forum that resolved the issue. Wasnt sure if i could link to another forum so just posted the timings. Google is your friend ;)

p.s what do you mean guys? I'm the only one who has posted back lol
 
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Thanks honosuseri really appreciate your help.

Haha sorry realised after I had sent that message that you were the only one replying.
 
Well it's not fixed yet. I'm hoping that's the problem, hope i'll be around next week when u post back having tried the fix. We'll go from there fella
 
Right I've set the memory to what you suggested and the problem still seems to occur, the system will switch off and then after 10 seconds or so just boot up again!

Any other suggestions?
 
Hello strangely enough the hanging boot has sort itself out now which is good news!!

The only problem is the system is still rebooting itself for no apparent reason, I have ran windows memory diagnostic and it found nothing wrong with the memory, anything else it might be or I could try?

Thanks
 
Could be you've got a dodgy power supply. Do you have another you could try it with?

It's also worth checking temperatures if you haven't already. If the heatsink isn't on properly it could be shutting down through overheating.
 
Right ok I ran prime95 yesterday on the 'small FFTs' stress test (for cpu) temp didn't go above 45 degrees for 4 hours.

Today I tried the 'blend' test (less cpu more ram) and the computer blue screened almost straight away!

Could this be my problem that the ram is faulty??
 
I ran memtest overnight last night using both sticks and it passed 10 times with no errors!

I am now completely confused as to what is going on!

Any ideas?
 
Check your HDD.. Download the diagnostics tool from the drive manufacturer and run. This is normally a "Live" CD.

Run a full disk check from the utility.. A failing drive will effect performance big time, particular at boot time. If this throws an error, then you have found the fault, otherwise you've eliminated both HDDs and the memory..
 
Right ok i have flashed the HDD firmware to the latest update off the OCZ website but i cannot find a utility to test the diagnositics.

Is there a 3rd party one i can use?
 
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