Sandybridge setup constant crashes?!

tommytinkle

tommytinkle

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Hey,

My rig is at stock with the following hardware -

i7 2600k
16gb ram (4x4gb vengeance)
2x 5850 Crossfire
P8P67 Pro

All was ok until I added the second radeon. Have removed it to try to get some stability again. The addition of the radeon could be coincidence as I've had raid array issues since changing to this board ( every three or so reboots it has to verify the raid array) - these are connected to the intel 6g ports also!

I've tried removing ram, changing the ram around, taking graphics cards out and I still get lock ups, incredibly slow hard drive access for loading windows also. The boot drive is on the faulty sata ports though.

I also get bsod's with IRQ not less or equal and a PFN list error blue screen also.

I'm stumped as to whats causing this - anyone got any ideas?

Cheers
 
650 watt power supply is just about the minimum requirement for Crossfire 5850's.

With all that overclocking on the CPU and GPU's the power draw might just be too much for that power supply.
 
Surveyor said:
650 watt power supply is just about the minimum requirement for Crossfire 5850's.

With all that overclocking on the CPU and GPU's the power draw might just be too much for that power supply.
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Hey mate,

I have 650 Corsair Professional, it crashes even at stock! :|
 
How many hard drives do you have and in what configuration?

If your RAID array keeps verifying, and the drives are connected to the unaffected P67 ports, then it suggests you may have a failing disk.
 
Sure i read somewhere that you can't overclock that high with 4 sticks of ram.

The thread was on these forums but can't find it now, the guy wanted to buy a system or bundle from ocuk with 4 ram sticks, but they said they couldn't because of the overclock, (or something along those lines).

You may have to turn it down or lose 2 sticks of ram.
 
Surveyor said:
How many hard drives do you have and in what configuration?

If your RAID array keeps verifying, and the drives are connected to the unaffected P67 ports, then it suggests you may have a failing disk.
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Hey mate,

I have five hard drives. Two are in a striped array, two are in a mirrored array. The other drive is a boot drive and is just a 500gb spinpoint F3.

hlennie said:
Swap out that power supply lend a mates
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Hey mate,

The psu is brand new, was a warranty return!

freddie64 said:
Sure i read somewhere that you can't overclock that high with 4 sticks of ram.

The thread was on these forums but can't find it now, the guy wanted to buy a system or bundle from ocuk with 4 ram sticks, but they said they couldn't because of the overclock, (or something along those lines).

You may have to turn it down or lose 2 sticks of ram.
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Hey mate,

It crashes even at stock speeds, so I doubt its anything to do with four sticks of ram! I have tried with just 8gb in overclocked and the same thing happens!
 
tommytinkle said:
Hey mate,

I have five hard drives. Two are in a striped array, two are in a mirrored array. The other drive is a boot drive and is just a 500gb spinpoint F3.
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Well you must be using some of the SATA 2 ports.

Possibly an early failure?

Try just using your boot drive in one of the SATA 3 ports and disconnect all the others.
 
I have come across this a couple of times in the past and it was one of two things for me. I am not saying it is definately what i'm going to mention as I have seen it so little. So, please bear that in mind lol and it could be something else.

imo it is likely to be bad ram or bad hdd. grab memtest and check all of the ram if just to eliminate it. I'm running 4 sticks of ram in my overclocked 2600k so you can discount that too. I think I used everest at the time to check hard drives, don't know what people use now.

As I say I have only done 3 or 4 jobs in the past with issues like yours and they were the culprits, if I also remember correctly the 'PFN list error' was a symptom of the problems and not the cause.

You never know it may help. Good Luck Number 24;)
 
Hey,

The windows install was a fresh install. I purchased windows 7 hp retail when it was £30 odd quid at amazon!

The raid arrays haven't been wiped for obvious reasons, certainly as far as the mirrored one goes!
 
DennisMenace said:
Wow, I missed that one. Although I did get Win7 Ultimate for £58 (upgrade version, but one reg tweak makes it full) and Office Pro+ for £38, as my little bro is a student. :)

Back On-Topic : Have you tried turning it off and on again? :p
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Hey mate,

It gets turned on and off many times especially with the bsod's :)
 
Someone in my eve corp had a similiar issue which was resolved by changing something in the power management part of the BIOS (CPU S2-6 states or something) would have to check exact details.
 
Hey Guys,

Think I may have found the problem -




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Problem is now - I guess I've got to test each pair of vengeance individually to find out which is the culprit? I figured maybe it'd just be the first set but I'm guessing it couldn't be that simple?!
 
Have you tried with only one stick of ram? having all 4 banks filled is not recommended puts extra strain on motherboard
 
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