Trouble getting stable!

Nicfish · 16 Jan 2008 at 17:37

After a bit of playing in the BIOS my pc will now run longer than 5 mins! But I am still gettin random crashing! The screen will suddenly freeze and will slightly deform but the mouse will still work for about 10 seconds then it completely freezes! I managed to get a quick screen shot before it crashed.

Usually its like the whole screen that will look like that but it didnt fully crash this time! Could it be GFX?

Nicfish · 16 Jan 2008 at 17:56

mame said:
were you trying to overclock? only thing i could think it you have left the PCI-E bus on auto and its now way over 100mhz. Could try locking it to 100mhz. Might be worth just clearing the cmos and making sure everything works ok at default.

I have played around with the PCI-E bus tried ranges from 100-110. Some more stable than others, but if i go to high my internet stops working!!!

And I have a E2180 @ 3.00 ghz. It orthos stable even at 3.4 Ghz but when scrolling internet pages is when i normally crash!

Also have:
Asus P5KC
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz
HIS ATI Radeon HD 3850 Pro Turbo X

Nicfish · 16 Jan 2008 at 18:03

SpeedFan says:

Vcore - 1.38v (think its set to 1.4v in bios)
+12v - 11.35v
AVcc - 3.31v
Ram - 1.8 v

Northbridge is on Auto in Bios but i dont know how to find out.

Nicfish · 16 Jan 2008 at 18:12

If i set my memory voltage to high it starts gettin errors on memtest. And Even when i set it to 2.1v it still shows as 1.8 on speedfan! Should i just ignore this?

And how do i find my northbridge voltage?

Nicfish · 16 Jan 2008 at 18:28

CPU-Z is saying

The timing is 5-5-5-18
FSB: DRAM - 5:6
DRAM frequency is at 360 Mhz
CR is 2T

And no i have not tried memtest86 off a boot disk

Nicfish · 16 Jan 2008 at 18:40

Just tested and memtest is fine at 2.1v

should i maually set the timings?

Nicfish · 16 Jan 2008 at 19:07

Thanks for the advice. I shall try this out and then get back to you!

Nicfish · 16 Jan 2008 at 19:18

No its always been unstable. But i have yet to solve it!

Nicfish · 21 Jan 2008 at 02:29

ok i tried having the ratio set to 1:1 and also setting the RAM as close to 800 as i can, but i still get the random artifacting (grammer?) and then freezing. could this be down to my graphics card? or even my monitor as i have had this issue even with my last set up and i have had new mobo, cpu, ram and graphics card since then!