Re: Aargh! A trap!
- From: Optician Dragon <dragonlensman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 02:51:08 GMT
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:36:54 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:50:53 GMT, Mark <dragonlensman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>No trap really.
>>I gave up on my repair install and performed a Clean Install.
>>But I still have a problem with system freezes after an amount of time
>>from 20 minutes to 8 hours or more. Everything becomes unresponsive,
>>my keyboard's NumLock light goes out, cursor freezes, even Zone
>>Alarm's level indicators freeze.
>>Ram checks OK with memtest.
>>I'm guessing the mobo didn't survive the hot flash quite so well after
>>all.
>
>Sooo, what happened? I noticed you were gone for a while. I was thinking
>you got the English version of Night of the Raven (the Gothic II add-on)
>or perhaps just Dungeon Siege II and were busy gaming away.
>
>So, you decided to try and squeeze out another .001% performance by
>flashing your BIOS but had a problem and did a hot flash to restore it?
>What was the problem? Chose the wrong bios file? After you reflashed it
>and everything seemed okay enough to restore the borrowed bios chip to the
>other computer, did you remember to either pull the battery for a minute
>or so, or just load the default settings? You really need to do that (I
>do both usually) and set up the bios from scratch. Otherwise all sorts of
>hinky stuff can go wrong.
>
>Or perhaps you have a ghost.
No, my K8V-X board was running all wonky with undervolting the DDR,
and since it was fixed two BOIS versions ago, I decided it was worth
the risk. It apparently went ok. It said it updated ok (did it in the
BIOS BIOS-flashing utility) and it rebooted, I Loaded Defaults,
rebooted and blooie. No POST. Nothing. I didn't dare the hot flash,
the tech at the local shop did it. I was prepared to get a new board,
but he said he'd try it. He gave it back to me with BIOS ver 1006, and
it still ran a bit flakey. A couple months ago, I saved some money for
a new board if necessary, prepared for clean install with new mobo,
and flashed this to version 1011. It ran much better, and was very
stable, though a still a bit undervolted. A few weeks ago, it started
getting the freezes, and I did a Repair Install to no avail. It still
persists with a clean install, so I'm guessing hardware.
I'll check out the SLI board, though I doubt I'll have another $400
for another GeForce 6800 GT to SLI.
.
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