Lock-ups, what do you suggest?

[Augster]

Hey,

First off, I have a 2500+ OC'd to XP3000+ with air cooling and, I think, a swiftech HSF with the fan around 2800rpm. This is on my MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR. I have one stick of Crucial XP3200 512MB. That said, here's my prob.

I record music with Sonar and have been doing so with my OC'd system for a while now. Lately though, if the CPU gets over 50C it locks up. Why is that? I thought these XP's were rated to 90C or so. Also, it's just recently. It'll lock up while I'm just recording one track now. It NEVER used to unless I had a lot of softsynths going. I absolutely can't run Prime95 for more than a few minutes before it locks. I am going to put it at stock and see if Prime95 works for a bit longer. In Prime, the last temp I see is usually around 53 or 54 before it quits.

I really don't want to get a new HSF as I just bought this one. I'd like to keep the noise as low as possible also. But, I can't have it locking up all the time.

Any ideas on how to get this stable? Would getting another stick of RAM help, so it'd be running in dual? These problems really only seemed to start after I installed Prime to test my stability. Now I have none. LOL!

Thanks for any help!

 

[OtakarJr]

Well, there are a few reasons why your temp might have gone up:

1) Ambient temp might have gone up: could be higher room temperature, or dust clogging up the inside of the case and the heatsink. Have you moved your computer lately?

2) Something could have shifted. You could try reseating the heatsink and reapplying the thermal compound. Sometimes that helps.

3) Have you upgraded your BIOS lately? If so, reflash back to your previous version.

4) Have you changed anything in the bios? If so, change it back.

That's about all I can think of. Other than that, there are some bad case scenarios. Your CPU might have been damaged by overclocking (not impossible), or you motherboard might have developed a fault.

 

[kronchev]

can that board even reliably do 200 mhz FSB? clock it to stock and see how things are

also why the HELL did you buy that heatsink? such a waste...

 

[Augster]

Thanks for the reply's guys.

I will try re-seating it and re-apply the compound. I haven't upgraded BIOS or anything, so I don't know.

Kronch, I don't know if it can "reliably" do 200FSB. It says it can, and it does work, but, like I posted, Prime95 just kills it.

BTW, what HSF do you folks suggest? HardOCP stopped doing HSF roundups around 2 years ago. There has to be better heatsink's around than what they tested so long ago.

Thanks for the help, and any continued help.

BTW, what is "stock" for this CPU? Multiplier x FSB. I guess I'd do a google if I wasn't so lazy.

 

[Little Grabbi]

with that much of a FSB overclock... dunno, I'd suggest w/c, but you might go with one of these new-and-hip heatpipe thingies... I don't use them but hey, they might work for somebody.

 

[kllrnohj]

Originally posted by kronchev
can that board even reliably do 200 mhz FSB? clock it to stock and see how things are

also why the HELL did you buy that heatsink? such a waste...

yeah, the board hits 200 fsb (see sig)

however, mine has the normal Nforce 2 (not the ultra) so the cpu fsb is only rated to 166fsb, could be why your having probs since you are overclocking the northbridge technically

EDIT: 2500= 11*166

 

[rogue_jedi]

which swiftech is it? if it supports a bigger fan go with that (more cfm/dBa)

if you're up to upgrading the hsf, the sp-97 is good with just about any 92/90/90mm fan.

good luck.



i'd tell you to bump the voltage a notch, but you're temps look pretty bad. 50C???