Computer Crashing

[Vaillant]

Ok, home...

I'm running under my overclock again, I plugged all devices back in, fans are at Max, and I'm running TWO instances of orthos blend test!

Everything, even the sound, seems to have re-established itself. I simply dont understand anymore.

Either the power supply is really flaky, cause all the voltages are correct according to everest, and backed up by my digital multimeter... or maybe the BIOS had been corrupted by my overclock and flashing it sunday ngiht fixed all my problems.

I could have sworn my voltages were what I put in the chart above before... But scince I never paid THAT much attention to it, im no longer sure about much of anything. I'm at a total loss to understand the problem lol

On the bright side, version 2004 of my BIOS made my CPU fan controller pro-active.... the fan, set to "optimal" mode, actually does speed up when the core gets hot, to keep it cool... contrarily to staying mostly the same RPM and seeing my full load temp go to 64-65, its sticking at 50 now..

Please advise..

[Mr.Ferrari]

There should be a set of q-fan controls under the hardware monitoring section in the bios.

[Vaillant]

Yes, I know that very well Mr. Ferrari
the only q-fan I ever enabled (also cause its the only one attatched to the mobo) is the CPU fan
they fixed a bug in the BIOS for sure, the behaviour of the fan controller totally changed.

Edit : update

Now 1hr40 minutes into orthos test. closed one cause it wasnt processing and clogging the RAM for nothing.
Everything's running as smoothly as if nothing ever happened. I guess maybe it Had been BIOS corruption. it's the only thing I can logically say right now.

If you guys have Any other ideas, please tell me.

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by Vaillant If you guys have Any other ideas, please tell me.

The oft quoted last resort - Gremlins!

[Vaillant]

lol :P

Well, thanks everyone for your insight, and for being my sounding board. For now this topic is coming to a close. I'm gonna run one last Orthos test, with my overclock on, for at least 12 hours to really guarantee its stable again.

Might consider a more powerfull PSU given the calculations that psu calculator came back with.

Once again, thanks.

[Vaillant]

One final update :

as predicted, the system is incrdibly stable now. The bios reflash fixed everything, and the updated fan controller code makes that my new load temp is 50c instead of 65

Ran orthos blend test for 20 hours, no problem.

Thanks again everyone, keep up the good fight.

[minsonngo]

Nice. Glad you go it working.

[Panama Red]

Thanx for the final update, Valiant.