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Pulling my hair out

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Jinx Twitchyboo

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I've got a ghost in the machine.

I recently sold my P4 3.0c system to a good buddy of mine and built myself an AMD64 system.

Specs on the P4:
3.0c @ 3.6 (240 FSB)
Geil 3200 2x512 set to 5:4 (200 FSB) 2.5-4-4-8
Lite-On LDW812s flashed to 832s
P4C800-E Deluxe
Ati-built 9800XT

I had the machine running @ 3.6 since the day I put it together (although I was using better ram at 1:1) My problem now is that I can't get the machine to run stable at his place. I set it up here and stress tested it for 3 days and it was running fine. I took it to his place and hooked it up... no go. It passes Memtest, boots up fine and everything but craps out and resets after about 10 minutes of doing anything. I tried setting all the speeds back to default and running it stock. No go. It still reboots randomly. The temps are running the same as they were for me. It's got a SP-94 and a thermaltake 92mm on it. Temps never get into the mid 40s.

I did find one thing very strange though. To get the overclock I was setting the v-core to 1.5875 in the bios, which was giving an idle core of 1.6-1.625 and load drooped to around 1.56 which was stable. Fine and dandy... But now when I run all the settings at spec cpu-z shows the v-core as idleing around 1.61. Could it be that after running oc'ed for over a year that the chip thinks its v-core is 1.6 now? Would that be causing the issues? Mobo problem? It's really irking the crap out of me.
 
may sound stupid but try a different power stip at his place. or a diff power outlet
 
10 bucks says the psu is crapping out - try a new one to see if that fixes it

happened to me
 
I actually thought the same thing about the power strip, but unfortunately I was so frusterated I forgot to try switching outlets/strips. The PSU could be the problem, but like I said there were no stability issues at my place. I'm about to hook it back up here and run it through a couple more tests to be sure it's not the PSU. I just don't understand why the v-core was going to town like that at default. I didn't even think to monitor that when I was testing it out here cuz I had no issues. Any comments or suggestions are always welcome. Just trying to nip this in the bud.

Thanks for any and all input. I'll check back in bit.
 
So you replaced the ram from what you had originally? Try putting your old ram back in and see if it can handle the speeds you were running before.
 
I guess I didn't make it very clear, sorry about that. I switched the ram, yes, but this ram has been in it during my 3 day test period to make sure this wouldn't happen. Of course, with my luck, that didn't stop the [H]ardGODs from toying with me.The ram cannot handle the 240 FSB 1:1, but it can handle being set 5:4. This is just strange. I'm just waiting for that "AHA" moment of clarity to hit me.

Back to the grindstone.
 
Believe it or not, it WAS the power strip. Let this be a lesson to those whos machine suddenly are much less stable than they were previously. Your power strip may have had some damage done to it. Lesson learned
 
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