Purely Random Lock-ups

[darkblade088]

Ive been getting this problem on my PC about a month from now and it usually happens about once or twice a week when on a new boot, usually happends after an hour or so on the desktop or gaming, its just a total lock-up. ive already done a memtest and primed for 4days non stop ( while leaving downloads on) my temps are fine;
heres my complete system specs

AMD Athlon64 3700+ Cooled w/ Tt Bigtyphoon ( 36c ~45C )
Asrock Dual SATAII
Sapphire X850XT-PE 256MB AGP Cooled w/ Artic Cooling 4 ( 42c ~ 58c )
2x 512MB DDR400 Twinmos RAM Running at 2.5 -3.3.8 ( Super Relaxed Settings)
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
LG GSA-4163B Multi DVD+RW
HEC WinOP 550W

CPU voltage is 1.450v

[MrNatural]

What speed have you got your 3700+ running at right now?

[chris0288]

whats ram voltage? try upping that a bit

[darkblade088]

What speed have you got your 3700+ running at right now?

I run stock speeds on everything as my motherboard or processor cant handle more than 220FSB so i never bothered overclocking this rig

whats ram voltage? try upping that a bit

Its already been set to "High"

[MrNatural]

I run stock speeds on everything as my motherboard or processor cant handle more than 220FSB so i never bothered overclocking this rig



Its already been set to "High"

Hmmm. The 1.45v for the vcore seems a little high. Turn it down to at the most 1.40. Also check and see if your mem voltage is showing to high. For stock you don't need more than 2.65. Also check and see if there may be a wide fluctuation in the 12v. I had an older PSU that started fluctuating the 12v to low and the system would simply lock up.

[darkblade088]

Hmmm. The 1.45v for the vcore seems a little high. Turn it down to at the most 1.40. Also check and see if your mem voltage is showing to high. For stock you don't need more than 2.65. Also check and see if there may be a wide fluctuation in the 12v. I had an older PSU that started fluctuating the 12v to low and the system would simply lock up.

system tool reports;

12v = 12.34min / 12.40max
5v = 5.13min / 5.16max
3.3v = 3.34min / 3.39max

what program should i use to monitor the memory voltage?

[MrNatural]

system tool reports;

12v = 12.34min / 12.40max
5v = 5.13min / 5.16max
3.3v = 3.34min / 3.39max

what program should i use to monitor the memory voltage?

Anything that works with XP really. Most will at least handle voltage monitoring. Epox probably has one on the CD or on it's site that will work. Keep it on the desktop so that way you can see what the voltage is after it locks up.

[darkblade088]

Anything that works with XP really. Most will at least handle voltage monitoring. Epox probably has one on the CD or on it's site that will work. Keep it on the desktop so that way you can see what the voltage is after it locks up.

Im using a Asrock Dual SATAII, my specs on my sig is not updated. My apologies if it confused you

[MrNatural]

Im using a Asrock Dual SATAII, my specs on my sig is not updated. My apologies if it confused you

Ooooops. My bad. Missed it in the inital post. ASRock huh. What is your DDR voltage set to right now. Also, have you got it set to 1T or 2T? May be it's a little high like the CPU and causing erros leading to lockups. Also I'm sure ASRock has a monitor either on the CD or their site.

[Malachyte]

Ive been getting this problem on my PC about a month from now and it usually happens about once or twice a week when on a new boot, usually happends after an hour or so on the desktop or gaming, its just a total lock-up. ive already done a memtest and primed for 4days non stop ( while leaving downloads on) my temps are fine;
heres my complete system specs

AMD Athlon64 3700+ Cooled w/ Tt Bigtyphoon ( 36c ~45C )
Asrock Dual SATAII
Sapphire X850XT-PE 256MB AGP Cooled w/ Artic Cooling 4 ( 42c ~ 58c )
2x 512MB DDR400 Twinmos RAM Running at 2.5 -3.3.8 ( Super Relaxed Settings)
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
LG GSA-4163B Multi DVD+RW
HEC WinOP 550W

CPU voltage is 1.450v

Also, what do you have your IDE/SATA settings at. is it an SATAII drive? Was your rig EVER working properly? Or did it just start?
Also, what version of the BIOS do you have?