Cowflab Posted October 10, 2004 Posted October 10, 2004 Hello all, its been a while since i last had any probs, but their back. After having tons of trouble with my Western Digital IDE HD's, i bought a new WD 35gig SATA, and swaped one of my IDE's with a friends maxtor. After having read that i should not install the IDE drivers even with a WD sata i havnt, although i did install all the other drivers (gart, usb, the works) Well now im noticing glitchs in everyday use. 1. Every other time i boot, either my keyboard (usb) or mouse (usb) dont work, thats not too bad, just reboot and usually they work. 2. Most of the time that i try using my internet, its slower than dial-up, or just wont respond at all. Possibly gart or my ethernet drivers? 3. When im playing my music off my IDE drive, its been skipping. 4. Sometimes my system will just freeze. My system temps are nothing to worry about. Im not overclocking. Using the most recent drivers 5.10 i believe. 6/19 bois. I would appreciate any help, or incite to these probs. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 10, 2004 Posted October 10, 2004 cowflab check the SB sink and see how hot it is...and are you overclocked at all? did you Load Optimized Defaults in the BIOS, save and exit, then go back and twiddle with the little things (like turning on/off drive controllers/ports etc)? where is your Audigy 5.1 installed ? (which slot and have you used Creative's AutoUpdate feature on their website to make sure you have latest drivers)? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0ng0d Posted October 12, 2004 Posted October 12, 2004 Are you running your memory out of sync @ 433 from your CPU @ 333? Win98, Win2K, WinXP? What SP? Have you loaded all Windows Updates for your system? Are all your other peripheral drivers up to date? Did you load the USB drivers off the CD? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowflab Posted October 12, 2004 Posted October 12, 2004 Sorry i should have included more info. I did install updated drivers for my Audigy LS, and it did correct the problem with songs skipping, and repeated lock-ups. Although ive still had a couple of lock-ups over the past couple of days. Im using XP SP1, with all the available upgrades. I did use the USB drivers off the cd, then installed the latest USB drivers, v1.1 or something like that, and have not had any problems with my mouse or keyboard. Again heat is not an issue, ive got a 90mm fan blowing evenly across the north and south bridge, as well as a standard desk-top fan, blowing directly into the side of my open case (im in phoenix, gotta do it) and more fans everwhere else... My main concern is my memory being out of sync with my cpu, and it may be the center of my problems. I sent back one of my corsair pc3500 433mhz XMS sticks, and in return i got a 400mhz pc3200 stick, so now ive got one of each (a single 256 stick of 433mhz, and the 256mb 400mhz stick). My cpu is 333 mhz. any suggestions? new processor, send back my other 433mhz stick of ram for another 400mhz? Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 12, 2004 Posted October 12, 2004 always make sure your RAM is 1:1 with the cpu on the NF2 boards... you can use any DDR speed (Ive used DDR533 sticks in the boards @ DDR400 speeds), just make sure its 1:1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowflab Posted October 13, 2004 Posted October 13, 2004 Hmm, well these are my settings, would have posted them earlier but i was @ work. Im still freezing up while gaming, could be heat but the higest it gets is about 114 f plus or minus? i dunno? FSB = 174 AGP = 66, latency 32, apature 128 (tried 256 did me no good) cpu ratio = default (13 w/my barton) set it to x13 and got the BSOD. mem = 1:1 @ 6,2,2,2,2.0,13,15 CPC is off ~Voltages~ What ive been able to boot with since work cpu = 1.85 agp = 1.80 chipset = 1.80 dram = 2.70 Any ideas? Thanks guys i appreciate the help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 13, 2004 Posted October 13, 2004 mem = 1:1 @ 6,2,2,2,2.0,13,15 try 1:1 @ 11-2-2-2-2.0,13,15 you have a locked barton then? if so...not gonna get a lot of clock out of it at all =( Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowflab Posted October 14, 2004 Posted October 14, 2004 I tried adjusting my mem timings, and it worked well for a while, but just recently ive been having more of the same problems. Music is choppy, internet slows down or stops responding. The computer will "jitter" basically, the sound freaks out then all is well, or it will freak out, and stop responding all together. Could this be data corruption? Driver problems? because i never had this many problems occur so persistantly with older versions of the nforce drivers? Im not all too eager to reformat my system, but at this point its really my best bet. yes its a locked barton. But im not all too concerned with overclocking, when the system wont run stable when im just listening to music and surfing the net. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 14, 2004 Posted October 14, 2004 try a single stick of your memory...you got two different sticks...regardless that their SPD might be the same, it might not like those two different sticks together. loosen up your timings to 8-3-3-3-2.5 or 11-3-3-3-2.5 and see if that works. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poisonsnak Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 You can find your recommended ram timings here: http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/xms.html#xms though they do not have a listing for XMS3500, which is odd because I remember hearing it before. AG's timings sound like they should work for either stick, the XMS3700 is supposed to be 8-4-4-3 (!) but I'm sure at 200MHz it could pull off 8-3-3-2.5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowflab Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 Last night i checked out the lan dropout_non heat related thread, and gave it a try, i figured if it f*cks up oh well ill just reformat and try some diffrent drivers. http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread...=&threadid=1242 So i changed from ACPI uniprocessor PC to Advanced Configuration and power interface PC, rebooted a few times and let windows reinstall what the hell ever it had to install. After 2 hours of download music, while playing music, and surfing the net, it never once froze up on me, and the music never skipped. Ive not really had the time to test it at all, but no probs. in two hours is way more assuring than crashing every 5 minutes. On another note, i swaped my memory around, and ran memtest for about half an hour per stick, without a single error with both sticks. Good news, although i should test longer. One Question though, i know ive got single channel mem, i put one stick in slot one and the other in 3, which enables duel channel. By running single channel mem in duel channel mode am i at risk for a crap up? I doubt there is any performance gain, but it is stable, that i know of... A huge thanks to everyone who has responded. Ill get back to ya, wheather or not its stable Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poisonsnak Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 I wouldn't worry about the sc/dc thing. When you have time for a longer memtest (if you can finish tests 1-9, takes a couple hours for me usually) do it with both sticks in the board, in dc mode and that will tell you if there are problems. Man this ACPI thing really is a miracle fix, kind of like 6/19. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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