Bad 790i Ultra?

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rverhas

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I just built my new computer, specs in sig, and I have been getting quite a few errors. All the errors seemed to deal with memory, but my memory passed memtest without any errors. In a different thread the someone thought that it was most likely my video card (9800GTX). I decided to take the card out and throw in my old 7800gt. Games still stopped working, but my computer did not blue screen. So I began to agree with the fact that it was my video card. I called XFX tech support and they told me to try the card in another board. I gave it a try and I didn't have a single bluescreen. Though it did preform horribly, but I think that was due to the age of the components (DFI LP nF-4, Athlon 4000+).

The only thing left for it to be really is the motherboard. When I got the board it was warped a little by the read connectors, I assumed it was because of the way the massive chipset heatsink is installed. I also ran sisoftware's sandra and it does not recognize it as a 790i ultra, also it is the lowest preformer in memory bandwidth, even when compaired to the preloaded 790i ultra scores. I don't usually care for benchmarking software, I'm not really into the whole e-peen thing, but I was hoping it would help in finding the problem. Does an issue with the motherboard sound plausible to anyone else? Would a bad motherboard cause errors like this?

I would really appriciate any help, if I left anything out any information out that you need let me know.

EDIT** Errors typically occur under load.
I am running windows vista ultimate 64.
Computer is currently breadboard, so cooling is not an issue.
 
Does your system do a full lock without any bluescreening or video changes? In other words, does it feel like your system has been paused and is unresponsive?
 
It has locked without a bluescreen and there is no way out of it other than to restart.
 
heatlesssun said:
Do you have your memory in Slots 1 & 3?
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Yes, 1st and 3rd slot, banks 0 & 1. I have also tried taking out one stick for a while because I know there have been issues running 4GB and I just wanted to make sure that wasn't the problem.
 
rverhas said:
It has locked without a bluescreen and there is no way out of it other than to restart.
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Does it happen frequently or when you are doing specific things or what?

The reason why I'm asking is becuase I have the exact same issue with my 790 and im ready to throw in the towel and get a intel chipset board.
 
Ockie said:
Does it happen frequently or when you are doing specific things or what?

The reason why I'm asking is becuase I have the exact same issue with my 790 and im ready to throw in the towel and get a intel chipset board.
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It happens frequently, but only when I am actually doing something. In other words, I could let the computer idle for a day without an error. I am also ready to send this back and get an intel chipset board.
 
WIth all this crap and problems with data corruption, I decided I would ship this back on monday. I am thinking about maybe getting this board. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128330. What do you think?

I need a DDR3 motherboard and something that will support the new 45nm processors. Also, I decided not to bother going SLI, so I probably want to go with an intel board.
 
The new P04 bios is out at EVGA.com forums. Try that over the weekend, if no go, ship Monday.
 
rverhas said:
There isn't any difference between the evga and xfx bios?
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EVGA generally sends out the Nvidia supplied stock BIOS with their branding applied (splash screen, etc) and that's it, so it tends to be available more quickly. It seems (based on previous experiences with 680i SLI boards) that XFX at least occasionally modifies the stock BIOS with intent to improve OCing performance, and occasionally stability, in addition to adding their branding to the splash screen, etc. There has been no similar evidence (definite, undeniable differences in OCing performance and stability, particularly with low RAM timings using th 'same' revision BIOS from EVGA and XFX on the same board) for modification of any EVGA BIOS vs. the Nvidia reference... though this is complicated by the fact that the reference BIOS is not publicly available to test against. It's worth nothing that this modification by XFX may not be true of all releases, or indeed of all boards, but there will be no damage caused by forcing a flash (as checksums will not match) of the EVGA BIOS on an XFX branded board, or vice versa, as it is the exact same hardware. The only possible exception to this rule I can think of could be EVGA's 750 FTW edition board, but even then I doubt it is more than changing the capacitors, which should not have any affect on the BIOS at all. It will be no more dangerous than flashing any other BIOS, though you may have to force a flash if you go back to an XFX BIOS in the future. Just a command line switch, fairly minor.

What I do to make this easy is mount the ISO EVGA provides in Deamon Tools or similar and copy the relevant files over to a bootable USB flash drive, and use that. That way you aren't limited to the autorun BAT included on the original ISO and can pass your own command line arguments.
 
I got the EVGA 790i ULtra with 9450 cpu and Patriot 1333 2x2gb and
its Rock Solid have you got the PO3 Bios and service pack 1 it might help.
I also have Windows vista 64bit with service pack 1.
 
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