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I had a wonderfully stable system, Asus A8N-SLI, 3800X2, 7900GT, Seasonic S12-500, audigy2 zs, 2x512 Geil 2-3-3-6 ram, TT Watercooling... system was perfect.
then the pump died. In trying to replace it, I ended up leaking (spraying) coolant everywhere. it was ~mostly~ non conductive coolant, but I did leak a little conductive stuff on things.
So I gave up on watercooling, went back to air. I stripped the stuff out (a LOT of scraping of adhesive off of the rear of the mobo, etc), and put my XP-120 back on.
Dry things off, plug it all in, fire it up, and boom, we're good to go. It works for about an hour. Then powersavings kick the screens off, and when I try to resurrect it, it won't come back. Reset switch, and nope... no post. don't even get to the post screen. Then boom, system spins down and won't come up (power switch -> fans twitch, nothing more). I reset cmos, etc, all the normal diags, and it won't come back. Unplugging the 12v line next to the cpu will let teh fans spin, but that's it.
Given all the abuse that the mobo just took, from me scraping adhesive off, to getting banged around, I figure it's VERY possible I damaged it. hell, the thing had coolant all over it too. So I go shopping... I can't get another A8N, but I find a BFG NF4 Ultra board, so I nab it. Bring it home, and of course it doesnt' support the X2, so I pull an old Venice I have lying around and get it up and running so I can update teh bios. Load the latest bios, drop my 3800x2 back in, and it seems to work.
Again, for an hour. Had to reinstall windows (YAY activation bugs!), and start gettign hours. When I try to install again, it won't, as I just get ACPI errors before it'll load windows (after the dos copying files dialogs and stuff). Ok, pull things apart, take a look (note: this was with a bare min. setup, no sound, no PVR card, just the cpu/video/1 drive/memory). As I'm looking things over, I notice 2 things: 1, the cpu has coolant in and around it, including under the spreader... 2, the socket on the old mobo is a little discolored.
So I figure I've blown a cpu as well. Oh well, figures
So I buy a new 3800X2, and install it.
It works. This time for longer... I use the system for a day, but I'm getting other odd errors. When playnig music, it froze and force-rebooted. Then while normal use, it suddenly went to standby, saying the ups was out of battery (AC power was on, UPS is full). Also random short pauses, just didn't feel 'right'.
So I try to renistall, figuring my fiddling with NF drivers may have been wrong. Now I get errors and file corruption (pci.sys is missing or damaged, reinstall windows). So now I'm pulling ram and trying to get it to work with one stick.
So, am I missing something about my configuration? Something else I should try? Anything I didn't think of?
edit: I've tried it with and without the Nvidia IDE driver, since I remember it being isues.
I had a wonderfully stable system, Asus A8N-SLI, 3800X2, 7900GT, Seasonic S12-500, audigy2 zs, 2x512 Geil 2-3-3-6 ram, TT Watercooling... system was perfect.
then the pump died. In trying to replace it, I ended up leaking (spraying) coolant everywhere. it was ~mostly~ non conductive coolant, but I did leak a little conductive stuff on things.
So I gave up on watercooling, went back to air. I stripped the stuff out (a LOT of scraping of adhesive off of the rear of the mobo, etc), and put my XP-120 back on.
Dry things off, plug it all in, fire it up, and boom, we're good to go. It works for about an hour. Then powersavings kick the screens off, and when I try to resurrect it, it won't come back. Reset switch, and nope... no post. don't even get to the post screen. Then boom, system spins down and won't come up (power switch -> fans twitch, nothing more). I reset cmos, etc, all the normal diags, and it won't come back. Unplugging the 12v line next to the cpu will let teh fans spin, but that's it.
Given all the abuse that the mobo just took, from me scraping adhesive off, to getting banged around, I figure it's VERY possible I damaged it. hell, the thing had coolant all over it too. So I go shopping... I can't get another A8N, but I find a BFG NF4 Ultra board, so I nab it. Bring it home, and of course it doesnt' support the X2, so I pull an old Venice I have lying around and get it up and running so I can update teh bios. Load the latest bios, drop my 3800x2 back in, and it seems to work.
Again, for an hour. Had to reinstall windows (YAY activation bugs!), and start gettign hours. When I try to install again, it won't, as I just get ACPI errors before it'll load windows (after the dos copying files dialogs and stuff). Ok, pull things apart, take a look (note: this was with a bare min. setup, no sound, no PVR card, just the cpu/video/1 drive/memory). As I'm looking things over, I notice 2 things: 1, the cpu has coolant in and around it, including under the spreader... 2, the socket on the old mobo is a little discolored.
So I figure I've blown a cpu as well. Oh well, figures
So I buy a new 3800X2, and install it.It works. This time for longer... I use the system for a day, but I'm getting other odd errors. When playnig music, it froze and force-rebooted. Then while normal use, it suddenly went to standby, saying the ups was out of battery (AC power was on, UPS is full). Also random short pauses, just didn't feel 'right'.
So I try to renistall, figuring my fiddling with NF drivers may have been wrong. Now I get errors and file corruption (pci.sys is missing or damaged, reinstall windows). So now I'm pulling ram and trying to get it to work with one stick.
So, am I missing something about my configuration? Something else I should try? Anything I didn't think of?
edit: I've tried it with and without the Nvidia IDE driver, since I remember it being isues.