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Originally I had the following hardware: Asus P5B / E6600 / 8800GTS / Antec TruePower550. I purchased the following upgrades: EP45-UD3P / Q8400 / GTX260 / Corsair TX750W PSU.
Here is the chain of events that leads to now:
Thanks in advanced.
Here is the chain of events that leads to now:
- Bought the Mobo/CPU from Frys and installed them and ran my original Vista install. After updates things were running "ok".
- Received my GPU from newegg and there were issues from the start which were things like games not running and newest drivers making windows crash. I needed a new PSU and decided to install Win 7 on my two raptors in raid0.
- This had its own issues because it was Win7 and I decided to go back to Vista x64 and WinUpdate was unable to install the GPU drivers but I installed from nvidia. Later I realized that the mobo from frys was used w/o a install CD and after calling Frys they said to bring it all back for a new mobo.
- After getting the new mobo I decided I should reinstall Vista (even though it was the exact same board) and this is where I started to run into issues.
- First try I ran a key finder to make sure I had entered my business key for this computer that corrupted the registry. Try 2, at the first reboot it said a .sys file was corrupted (maybe dvd drives lens was dirty). Try 3 things worked and Vista installed. Again my GPU update from WinUpdate failed and from nvidia worked after a restart.
- Things seemed fine till the next night when I went to mount an iso using daemon tools, this resulted in dtool crashing. I decided to check the event logs after a second try which showed me an error about MMC unable to load and crashed interviewer.
- I restarted, mounted correctly but suddenly launching anything 32-bit like ie7 gave me the following error: "Entry point getsysteminfi count not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" again I restarted and things worked fine.
- I bought WoW and tried to install it and had the following error: "An error was detected while verifying the contents of the file "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Data\enUS\backup-enUS.MPQ". There may be a problem with your system, or with the drive at C:\. You can attempt to install again. If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support." After trying the webinstaller and restarting which I read off of some google posts I read that people had memory issues that caused this.
- I decided to run Memtest86 v3.5. (I had one pair of the ram about 6mo before the second pair) I ran the test on all 4 in slot0, then I ran the old pair in 0/2 and 1/3 and the same with new pair. These all passed, but when I went to test all 4 Memtest would run for a few seconds then reboot.
- So I decided to install WoW w/ my old pair installed and WoW installed perfectly fine. After research I found out this v3.5 failed on 4gigs of ram. I got the newest bios from this site F9l and then only set SPD 800 DRAM V 2.0 and raid and I got Memtest86+ v2.11 and ran it for 2 passes on all 4 sticks w/o errors.
- When I got back into windows I was able to run WoW at its highest settings and even Fallout 3. But then when I went to install Fallou 3 v1.5 I ran into install issues. After a reboot I decided to try IE8 instead and this would fail before it got passed the first stage of the install and never succeed off the winupdate either.
- Next restart Fallout 3 1.5 installed fine and the game ran fine as well, but other things were failing here and there like adobe installer and others. During all this WoW and Fallout 3 ran just fine.
- In the code below is my current settings which I changed to because of this forum, the main two changes were MCH 1.2v and PCIE 100, but thing still seem unstable. Cant "save" in ie at times, activex to install crashing ie, etc.
- One other thing is some shutdowns my HDDs are grinding away for about 5min before the computer shuts down.
Thanks in advanced.
Code:
************************************** ************************************** Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (Rev. 1.1) - F9l ************************************** ************************************** ****************************** MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) ****************************** Robust Graphics Booster ..............: [Auto] CPU Clock Ratio ......................: [8X] x Fine CPU Clock Ratio................: +0.0 CPU Frequency ........................: 2.66GHz (333x8) ********** Clock Chip Control ******** >>>>> Standard Clock Control CPU Host Clock Control................: [Disabled] x CPU Host Frequency(Mhz).............: 333 PCI Express Frequency(Mhz)............: [100] C.I.A.2...............................: [Disabled] >>>>> Advanced Clock Control..........: [Press Enter] CPU Clock Drive.......................: [800mV] PCI Express Clock Drive...............: [900mV] CPU Clock Skew........................: [ 0ps] MCH Clock Skew........................: [ 0ps] ******** DRAM Performance Control ******** Performance Enhance...................: [Standard] Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.)........: [Disabled] <-- I do not have this in my BIOS (G)MCH Frequency Latch................: [Auto] System Memory Multiplier (SPD)........: [2.40B] Memory Frequency(Mhz).....667.........: 800 DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD)..........: [Auto] >>>>> Standard Timing Control x CAS Latency Time................5...: 5 x tRCD ...........................5...: 5 x tRP.............................5...: 5 x tRAS...........................15...: 15 >>>>> Advanced Timing Control.........: [Press Enter] x tRRD............................3...: Auto x tWTR............................3...: Auto x tWR.............................5...: Auto x tRFC...........................36...: Auto x tRTP............................3...: Auto x Command Rate (CMD) .............0...: Auto >>>>> Channel A Timing Settings.......: [Press Enter] x Static tRead Value..............7...: Auto x tRD Phase0 Adjustment...........0...: Auto x tRD Phase1 Adjustment...........0...: Auto x tRD Phase2 Adjustment ..........0...: Auto x tRD Phase3 Adjustment...........0...: Auto x Trd2rd(Different Rank)..........6...: Auto x Twr2wr(Different Rank)..........6...: Auto x Twr2rd(Different Rank)..........5...: Auto x Trd2wr(Same/Diff Rank)..........8...: Auto x DIMM1 Clock Skew Control (ps).......: Auto x DIMM2 Clock Skew Control (ps).......: Auto x DDR Write Training..................: Auto >>>>> Channel A Driving Settings......: [Press Enter] x Driving Strength Profile............: Auto x Data Driving Pull-Up Level..........: Auto x Cmd Driving Pull-Up level...........: Auto x Ctrl Driving Pull-Up Level..........: Auto x Clk Driving Pull-Up Level...........: Auto x Data Driving Pull-Down Level........: Auto x Cmd Driving Pull-Down level.........: Auto x Ctrl Driving Pull-Down Level........: Auto x Clk Driving Pull-Down Level.........: Auto >>>>> Channel B Timing Settings.......: [Press Enter] x Static tRead Value..............7...: Auto x tRD Phase0 Adjustment...........0...: Auto x tRD Phase1 Adjustment...........0...: Auto x tRD Phase2 Adjustment ..........0...: Auto x tRD Phase3 Adjustment...........0...: Auto x Trd2rd(Different Rank)..........6...: Auto x Twr2wr(Different Rank)..........6...: Auto x Twr2rd(Different Rank)..........5...: Auto x Trd2wr(Same/Diff Rank)..........8...: Auto x DIMM1 Clock Skew Control (ps).......: Auto x DIMM2 Clock Skew Control (ps).......: Auto x DDR Write Training..................: Auto >>>>> Channel B Driving Settings......: [Press Enter] x Driving Strength Profile............: Auto x Data Driving Pull-Up Level..........: Auto x Cmd Driving Pull-Up level...........: Auto x Ctrl Driving Pull-Up Level..........: Auto x Clk Driving Pull-Up Level...........: Auto x Data Driving Pull-Down Level........: Auto x Cmd Driving Pull-Down level.........: Auto x Ctrl Driving Pull-Down Level........: Auto x Clk Driving Pull-Down Level.........: Auto ****** Motherboard Voltage Control ****** Voltage Types..........Normal...........Current ----------------------------------------------- >>> CPU Load-Line Calibration.................: [Disabled] CPU Vcore..............1.28750V.......: [1.28750V] CPU Termination........1.200V.........: [Auto] CPU PLL................1.500V.........: [Auto] CPU Reference..........0.760V.........: [Auto] >>> MCH/ICH MCH Core...............1.100V.........: [1.200V] MCH Reference..........0.760V.........: [Auto] MCH/DRAM Reference.....0.900V.........: [Auto] ICH I/O................1.500V.........: [1.500V] ICH Core...............1.100V.........: [1.100V] >>> DRAM DRAM Voltage...........1.800V.........: [2.000V] DRAM Termination.......0.900V.........: [Auto] Channel A Reference....0.900V.........: [Auto] Channel B Reference....0.900V.........: [Auto] ******** Advanced BIOS Features ******** Hard Disk Boot Priority...............: [Press Enter] First Boot Device.....................: [CDROM] Second Boot Device....................: [Hard Disk] Third Boot Device.....................: [USB-HDD] Password Check........................: [Setup] HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability.............: [Enabled] Limit CPUID Max. to 3.................: [Disabled] No-Execute Memory Protect.............: [Enabled] CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)...............: [Enabled] C2/C2E State Support..................: [Enabled] x C4/C4E State Support................: [Enabled] CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2) ...........: [Enabled] CPU EIST Function.....................: [Enabled] Virtualization Technology.............: [Enabled] Delay For HDD (Secs)..................: [ 0] Full Screen LOGO Show.................: [Disabled] Init Display First....................: [PEG] ******** Integrated Peripherals ******** USB Keyboard Function.................: [Enabled] USB Mouse Function....................: [Enabled] USB Storage Function..................: [Enabled]
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