Onion Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 Ok, so lets start off with a little background on this problem first. Recently, I have been experiencing a lot of crashes, and more and more voltage needed to sustain the same speed and I ended up going back to stock 2 weeks ago with stock voltages. Still very unstable and crashes about twice a day. At first, I thought my cpu had degraded, but I have now narrowed it down to the motherboard, ram, or cpu. Today, it crashed while I was browsing the web and I cant get it to turn back on, the damn thing keeps freezing at the splash screen no matter what voltages and speed I seem to try. I took out my ram and put in the ram from my E2200 rig and it still doesnt work so I dont think it might be the ram. I tried putting the ram from the Q6700 rig (tracers) into the E2200 and a VERY bright white light is on the bottom of the first dimm and the pc shuts off. I thought it was just the LED on it that was messed up, so I tried it again after reseating the ram. Same thing...then I realized it was most likely electricity and told myself...gee, I really did it this time. I put the ram original ram from the E2200 back into it, and it boots fine (this is where I am typing this message.) I will be sending a part back but I do not know if I should send the motherboard, or the ram. I pencil modded the mobo, and pushed it to 1.75 volts once for a very short period of time, but all the temperatures were fine and under 50. Also, I used to run my ram at 2.2 for a while but I stopped and ran them at 2.0 instead because I knew the D9's failed a lot. Now I dont even have a pc...which part should I send back? :mad: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamic Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 Ok, so lets start off with a little background on this problem first. Recently, I have been experiencing a lot of crashes, and more and more voltage needed to sustain the same speed and I ended up going back to stock 2 weeks ago with stock voltages. Still very unstable and crashes about twice a day. At first, I thought my cpu had degraded, but I have now narrowed it down to the motherboard, ram, or cpu. Today, it crashed while I was browsing the web and I cant get it to turn back on, the damn thing keeps freezing at the splash screen no matter what voltages and speed I seem to try. I took out my ram and put in the ram from my E2200 rig and it still doesnt work so I dont think it might be the ram. I tried putting the ram from the Q6700 rig (tracers) into the E2200 and a VERY bright white light is on the bottom of the first dimm and the pc shuts off. I thought it was just the LED on it that was messed up, so I tried it again after reseating the ram. Same thing...then I realized it was most likely electricity and told myself...gee, I really did it this time. I put the ram original ram from the E2200 back into it, and it boots fine (this is where I am typing this message.) I will be sending a part back but I do not know if I should send the motherboard, or the ram. I pencil modded the mobo, and pushed it to 1.75 volts once for a very short period of time, but all the temperatures were fine and under 50. Also, I used to run my ram at 2.2 for a while but I stopped and ran them at 2.0 instead because I knew the D9's failed a lot. Now I dont even have a pc...which part should I send back? :mad: When you state in your above post the "E2200" are you actually referring to the E2160 or another rig that you have aside from the Q6700 system? If you have already tested the processor "The overclocked E2160" and still getting the same thing i would think the board is done for. Now how did you manage to do the pencil mod on that Gigabyte board and for how long? A 1.75v for a processor is like murder, that's what you're referring too right? I would send the board back, but than again you have either what two or three systems so why not try the other boards with the E2160 and memory to find out what's really going on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 The E2200 rig is another one, but very similar to the E2160 rig. I cant take out the cpus though, I am fresh out of thermal paste and it will be another week to get some off newegg. The pencil modded board is the 780i, and 1.75 IS murder if you arent using extreme cooling (which I was). Temps were fine, I was getting a load of about 9 celcius. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted November 22, 2008 Posted November 22, 2008 when you are changing ram are you fully clearing the CMOS and then loading optimized defaults on each change attempt...? sounds like ram to me.... also at stock settings it wont hurt to run the CPU without TIM on the stock heatsink just for testing purposes...I do it all the time... out of 100s of PCs built I have never killed anything testing... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted November 24, 2008 Posted November 24, 2008 Yeah I agree on the TIM part, but then I gotta go to newegg and buy some more. I dont think it might be ram since WORKING ram (from the pc I am typing this on) was tested on the Q6700 machine and it didnt work. Mobo or ram? I think mobo. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedEuphoria Posted November 24, 2008 Posted November 24, 2008 In my limited experience ram cause more strange issues then anything else, other than a PSU. The only bad Mobos I had were just bad Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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