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Humph

Humph

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Jan 7, 2003
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As of yesterday, my machine has thrown all manner of fits and tantrums whilst performing various tasks - ranging from playing company of heroes to doing nothing whatsoever.

The only logical cause of this problem I can see thus far is the fact that, for some reason, my processor's core voltage is now, for some reason, bouncing around 2.7 to 2.8, when I believe it should be at 3.3.

Any ideas on how to fix this? I'm getting complete lockups, reboots, etc.

I'm using a P4 3.4Ghz on an MSI 865PE Neo2-P board. My PSU is a piece of shit, but things such as disconnected unneeded drives and case fans have not upped the voltage atall. Changes to various bios settings under power/frequency do not appear to make much difference either.

What sort of fault is this likely to be?
 
Humph said:
As of yesterday, my machine has thrown all manner of fits and tantrums whilst performing various tasks - ranging from playing company of heroes to doing nothing whatsoever.

The only logical cause of this problem I can see thus far is the fact that....
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...you haven't been playing enough UT. Maybe if you chose to play UT over CoH your machine would like you better.
 
It's too hot?

http://www.intel.com/design/Pentium4/guides/24989104.pdf


"VRM circuits of mainboards or power supply units can also often fail because of considerable voltage jumps in the AC network. However, modern circuit solutions of power supply units and mainboards have a lot of protective means and emergency shutdown mechanisms. That is why a processor would hardly fail because of VRM circuits.

Therefore, the most real problem today is only bad thermal conditions of the processor. "

http://www.digit-life.com/articles/pentium4athlonxpthermalmanagement/index.html
 
I got about the same problem you have Humph. But I'm not sure if it's the voltage that's really my problem. My core is making a noise aswell. Don't know if you got that too. I think mine is just broken.
 
Ðeadßoy said:
erm have you played with the cpu core voltage in the bios ?

look at the operating voltage range

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=201&catid=1

too much voltage = heat = lockups and crashes

reset bios to optimum

if its the 3.3 v rail your onabout

then power supply problem
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My CPU's tempreature looks normal to me - generally around 40 to 50c - though it can peak at 60-70 at times, crashes have been at pretty much any tempreature.

I'm suspecting the power supply because it's a cheap and nasty Q-Tec PSU and thus guaranteed to be a pile of shit.

That and it's managed to kill almost all of the neon blue led's that were in my machine over the last few years.

Turha. said:
Is Humph banned from the correct forum? :smurf:
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Yep. Silly really.
 
Could be a mobo fault, but moe likely its having an adverse reaction to being your compy.



hope i was helpfull.
 
Experienced a similar problem with a dodgy PSU. At first it started cutting out when extra USB devices were added, later doing as you described and changing voltage, particularly when entering BIOS it would reset to some shitty clock speed. Maybe coincidence but thats what I'd say it was.
 
dirz said:
I got about the same problem you have Humph. But I'm not sure if it's the voltage that's really my problem. My core is making a noise aswell. Don't know if you got that too. I think mine is just broken.
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clean your cooler lol.
 
new PSU imo

only thing other than 3.3v rail that could be at 2.7-2.8 could be your ram voltage - might wanna check that too???

other than that try unplugging any spare cd drives etc you dont need plugged-in in order to boot up and see if it stops the crashes??
 
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