Seemingly Endless Trouble (BFG 7800 GT, Crashes)

[Guy BlueSummers]

Reinstalled a copy of XP Pro, followed by Lan Drivers, SP1, SP2, NForce Drivers, Video Drivers, ad 3dMark.

 

Ran 3dMark, and it passed nicely (although it looks like my rig isn't as flashy as I thought). I'll retest when I get the mem-stick back from OCZ. In the mean time, I'll start looking into getting a Vista Dual-Boot going.

 

It's pretty refreshing to have a stable computer! I think the bugs might be all gone!

[wevsspot]

GuyBlue,

 

This is really good news to start my day off with. Congratulations! Lets keep our fingers crossed that this is the end of your misfit adventures with this board. Keep me posted.

[Guy BlueSummers]

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Running like something out of a dream. TF2 at full features sticks to 30-45 fps like glue. Turning it down keeps things over 45.

 

This also gave me an opportunity to reinstall my OS(s). I bought XP32/64 at the campus store, and I'll install Vista32 a little later. Giving each 200gb, 100gb, 100gb of space respectively.

 

The second OCZ stick comes in today, which lets me get back to my 3d modeling and animation work.

 

Cheers! And thanks again!! =D

[wevsspot]

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[Repr]

ive read the entire thread and just want to congratulate you.... and wevsspot: great job

[wevsspot]

GBS,

 

Here is a cool little heatsink mod for your PWMIC;

 

 

Then zip tie a 120mm fan to your hard drive cage on the right hand side of the PWMIC heatsink and that will go a long ways towards reducing the temperature of that chip.

 

Any old heat sink will work as long as you clean it up (especially the bottom seating surface) and then use some thermal tape to hold it to the PWMIC chip.

[Guy BlueSummers]

Right on! I'll have a look at that.

 

BTW: I got a package of dual-channel ram (two gigs), which was weird because I only sent back one lonely stick. Here's what's got me confused; I installed the dual channel in the two orange slots, and the old stick in the top-most yellow slot. It won't boot (3 LEDs on the diag). With the dual sticks in the orange slots the computer starts, which means I'm back to where I want to be. No real problem, so this is just a bonus if it's obvious what I'm doin' wrong. =D

 

I'm just wondering if there's some way to get these three sticks to work nicely together. They're the same model, make, and timings. Heck- if I didn't pull them out of a dual channel package, I'd expect them to be identical to my singles.

 

Any thoughts?

[wevsspot]

Sorry for the late reply GBS. I haven't checked up on this thread in a while.

 

Three sticks will not work on your board.

 

Your choices are 1-stick, 2-sticks or 4-sticks. Your board isn't designed to run with 3 DIMMs populated.

[wevsspot]

GBS,

 

Are we at a point where we can consider this thread resolved?

[Guy BlueSummers]

You bet!

 

Looks like I'll buy another stick.

 

Thanks again!

[wevsspot]

GBS,

 

Running that board with all four DIMMS populated will be problematic and might take a good bit of time to get stable with multiple BIOS tweaks involved. If you do choose to run four sticks, make sure that all four are exactly the same. Same speed, same manufacturer, same model number, same timings. And even at that it might be kind of stubborn.

 

If any way possible please consider selling your existing memory and opt for a 2X2gb kit instead and only populating two DIMM slots for dual channel and optimal performance.