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murky44

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I'm know others have had this problem, but as much as I've searched, I never came across any solution for it. After leaving my computer off for a long period of time, after I turn it back on, it locks up on my completely after maybe 10-20 minutes of use. Restarting doesn't help at all, and the only method I found to make it work again, is to slightly change my cpu clock.

This happened after I overclocked, and it was stable for a day or two, then one day this started happening. I tried loading defaults speeds/voltages, and that didn't help at all. I was running @ 3.8GHz when it started, so I basically had to change the speed slightly every morning (3.80 --> 3.79), and it started working again for the entire day perfectly.

Here are my BIOS settings when it started:
CPU clock: 448 x 8.5 = 3.8GHz
PCI-E Frequency: 100MHz
CIA 2: Disabled
Performance Enhance: Standard
Memory Multiplier: 2.00D
Memory Frequency: 896MHz
Memory Timings: 5-5-5-15
Memory Voltage: 2.1V
FSB Overvoltage: +0.25V
(G)MCH Overvoltage: +0.250V
LLC: Auto
CPU Voltage: 1.375V

Does anybody have a solution to this? Thanks
 
Hiyas, it appears to be a Gigabyte board but would like to know your exact memory used, a link to it from where you bought it would do and how much (2 x 2gb etc.). At least the series of board so we can figure out what other bios options are avaialbe to you, is it a P35 P45 X58 etc ? Well Gigabyte will put a G in there instead of the Intel P but you get the idea. Just some more specifics as you have already hit the easy stuff/settings.

Do you use/have any USB storage or external SATA storage devices connected to the machine during boot ?



If it is pc6400 800MHz stuff there are a couple of things I could recommend.

You should change one thing at a time and use the machine for a couple of days to determine if it really helps.
Try 5 5 5 18 for starters (you will never notice the difference)
 
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Go into BIOS and go to the restore all default settings (even the dreaded logo show!) IMO. Sometimes we change so many settings we wind up overlooking something simple. Like when you're trying to manually clock it to default maybe you have the multiplier lower than default and left speedstep on (this causes crashes for me). Worth a shot anyways
 
BillParrish said:
Hiyas, it appears to be a Gigabyte board but would like to know your exact memory used, a link to it from where you bought it would do and how much (2 x 2gb etc.). At least the series of board so we can figure out what other bios options are avaialbe to you, is it a P35 P45 X58 etc ? Well Gigabyte will put a G in there instead of the Intel P but you get the idea. Just some more specifics as you have already hit the easy stuff/settings.

Do you use/have any USB storage or external SATA storage devices connected to the machine during boot ?



If it is pc6400 800MHz stuff there are a couple of things I could recommend.

You should change one thing at a time and use the machine for a couple of days to determine if it really helps.
Try 5 5 5 18 for starters (you will never notice the difference)
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The motherboard I'm using is a Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4, w/ 4GB Corsair Dominators (1066MHz, 5-5-5-15). I don't have anything connected through USB during boot. The dominators run at 5-5-5-15 by default in my BIOS, I didn't really change it to that. I should also mention, I'm using water cooling, so the temps dont get that high at all (even with all the heat from the fires here in LA).

mrrogers747 said:
Go into BIOS and go to the restore all default settings (even the dreaded logo show!) IMO. Sometimes we change so many settings we wind up overlooking something simple. Like when you're trying to manually clock it to default maybe you have the multiplier lower than default and left speedstep on (this causes crashes for me). Worth a shot anyways
Click to expand...

I ended loading the fail-safe defaults this morning, as it happened again today (and I was at stock speeds today as well).
 
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I loaded fail-safe defaults last night, and it froze up again this morning. It's weird because all I have to do is just turn it off for a few seconds, and then it works just fine. I don't get it, but at this point, all I want to know is...will I have to RMA this, or is it fixable?
 
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