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Paulc

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Hi all, I thought I would post the issue I have here, as I have already read another post which helped me greatly with this setup.

I have the following system. Brand new.

P55-CD53
Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz
4GB Corsair 1333Mhz ram
Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 896MB DDR3 PCI-E Graphic Card
Western Digital Caviar 1TB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive
COOLER MASTER 650W eXtreme Power Supply
"Samsung" SH-S223D 22X DVDRW SATA
Cooler Master CM 690 Black Tower Case

I had an issue where I couldn't load Windows 7 professional, Or Vista Ultimate. This has been resolved by upping the memory voltage to 1.6 and changing the command rate to 2 as per another post here on this board. I also disabled Spread Spectrum.

So I now have windows loaded on the machine. I left it on last night to see how it went, and, this morning it was hung. Couldn't get a picture back up, numlock would not change state, capslock did nothing either. This was similar to what was happening when I attempted to load windows. It would get to Extracting Windows Files and then hang in the same fashion. I don't know how long it was running before the hang.

I don't think this is a faulty hardware issue, I have run some tests on the memory and found no errrors.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can make this more stable? I am going to try turning off the BIOS power management and see if this is an issue when I get home tonight.

I do not have spare hardware lying around to test with, but I could take any suggestions on where I should go from here please.

If not, I will send back to the shop under RMA, but, as said, I am not convinced it is faulty hardware, maybe another configuration/BIOS issue?

If there is more info required, let me know. I do not think there is going to be a dump file on the machine as it was not a stop error.

Cheers
Paul
 
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Sounds kinda similar to this post...

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=132553.0

Also, I tried booting off USB drive. I have also updated the BIOS to the latest and greatest. I have installed all the drivers from the website.
 
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I run a very similar setup, same board, memory at 1600 (Corsair 4 gig) (i believe set at 1.65v using xmp automatic) , and 1T.  I never touched the spread spectrum setting.  Stable as a rock from day 1. Win 7 x64
 
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Thanks, I will try upping it to 1.65. Is there any chance of damage at that voltage?

Currently running it with 1 Dram module, and running a stress test against it as well (Using Passmark Burnin test) No errors reported at all after 15 mins running, will leave that an hour, then just leave it alone running nothing for a while. If it hangs again, will try the 1.65 voltage as suggested.

I have never had this much trouble with a machine before, can someone explain why I would need to make all these BIOS changes just to get it stable? Seems a bit strange to me. I have not built an i5 machine with DDR3 1333 before now though.

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BurnIn test gave errors on memory access. Only 6, but enough to fail. Voltage could explain this.
 
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Machine ran fine from 5pm - 7am. No problems. With one RAM Module in it.

Have put the other module in, changed the command rate to 2T and I increased the volatage to 1.65. Lets see if it fails now :) Thanks for your guys help so far :)
 
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Hi Paul,

I am running a fairly similar setup to you:

P55-CD53
i5 2.66
6GB Corsair XMS3 (3x2GB)
GeForce GTC 260 896MB
Samsung 1TB HD103SJ SATA HDD

I have been running Windows 7 64-bit on a 200GB partition, Ubuntu on another 200GB and then NTFS the other 600GB for data.

Fine for the last 3 weeks except for one program (Unity3D) running on Windows that causes a blue screen fairly regularly due to video problems. Last night it didn't manage to blue screen, it just black screened and restarted.

I have been running with OC Genie turned on. After the crash the computer kept restarting over and over again for about 20 mins until I eventually turned it off and switched off OC Genie.

After that it got as far as loading Windows and freezing immediately after displaying the desktop. I tried to repair using a repair disk I had made but that hangs after about 5 mins. More disturbing: I tried loading Ubuntu up to attack from there and Ubuntu does not load (gets stuck 1/5th way through OS boot process).

I am currently running a memory test from a Ubuntu install disk with no errors so far.

I think this feels like I've somehow corrupted the hard drive in such a way as it cannot be read at some point. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to solve/fix this one? My next plan would be to remove the graphics card and see if I can get to a stage where I can format the Windows partition, however it doesn't appear to have any on-board graphics..

Also: I only have spare IDE hard drives and there doesnt appear to be an IDE slot on the P55-CD53..

Any help much appreciated
 
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Well, I am about ready to send this board back. 1 RAM module runs fine, put two in, and it hangs. Both have the command rate at 2T, and I have now just tried to up the memory voltage to 1.65Mhz. If this doesnt fix the freezing issue, I am going to RMA the board I think. I have bought a number of MSI board before, and have never had this much issue...

BTW, the black RAM slots are populated, not the others. DIMM1 and DIMM3. When the machine ran fine, I only had a DIMM in the outer slot of the motherboard. (Furthest from CPU)
 
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Well I managed to get mine back to normal eventually..

I ended up formatting the Windows partition using gparted in Ubuntu Live CD. Then reinstalled Windows 7. Then managed to get the Repair disk to work and reimaged W7 partition, this time with a backup image I had on an XHDD..

All working again now.. For how long... I'm not sure :)
 
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Mine appears to be ok too so far, have given it to the people I bought it for, and havent heard anything bad.

Command rate at 2T for both DIMMs and voltage @ 1.65Mhz... seemed to do the trick. Cant remember if I left Spread Spectrum disabled, but I think so.
 
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