E0 stepping prescott giving me problems.

[nighthawk15]

A few weeks ago I got a new CPU (an Intel 3.2E) to replace my old C0 stepping 3.0E that got some pins broken off. It works great for the most part except for one thing. Adobe Photoshop, both CS and CS2 hang up and freeze on me. FireFox does the some thing unless I run it in windows 98 compatibility mode (no idea why this fixes it but it does). What confuses me so much about this is it has no problems under heavy load or anything. It's just those couple of programs. I have already reformatted twice, reset my CMOS, checked the ASUS web site to make sure my BIOS are compatible with the CPU, and am currently running at stock speed until I figure out the problem. Here are my basic system specs.


ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe (1017 BIOS)

Intel 3.2E Prescott

1 GB (2x512) of Corsair XMS PC3200 2-3-3-6

2x 120GB Seagate Barracudas in RAID0

Nvidia GeForce 6800GT

Any ideas at all would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Stugots]

Try running Prime95 at stock speeds. If there is a problem with the CPU, going by what you said I don't think it will run for very long before it has an error. Perhaps you got a bad CPU.

 

[nighthawk15]

It has no problem with benchies or games. Thanks for the reply though.

 

[ZL1]

It has no problem with benchies or games. Thanks for the reply though.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=418387

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[Stugots]

It has no problem with benchies or games. Thanks for the reply though.

Having a system stable enough to run 1 run of 3DMarks is one thing, having it run Prime95 for 24 hours is different. You should be able to leave Prime95 running for weeks without errors. If you get ANY errors at stock speeds, something is wrong.