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P5GD1-pro hang
I'm haveing this strange problem with several systems with the same spec's:
Asus P5GD1-pro P4 540 3.2GHz Kingston DDR400 512Mb 2x dual channel XFX FX6600 128Mb videocard 160Gb s-ata 8Mb 7200rpm Maxtor Floppydisk drive 16x DVDrom Samsung 16x DVD+-RQW Samsung Enlight 4105 350w Case MS Windows XP Home SP2 When playing same heavy game's like NFS Underground II the system hang. After a reboot it says NTLDR is missing. I can fix that with no problem but the hang issue stays. The system runs Prime95 with no problem. When I look in logbook I see mass of disk-errors hdd0 and atapi errors. Any suggestion? Thanks Driekes |
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wrote: I'm haveing this strange problem with several systems with the same spec's: Asus P5GD1-pro P4 540 3.2GHz Kingston DDR400 512Mb 2x dual channel XFX FX6600 128Mb videocard 160Gb s-ata 8Mb 7200rpm Maxtor Floppydisk drive 16x DVDrom Samsung 16x DVD+-RQW Samsung Enlight 4105 350w Case MS Windows XP Home SP2 When playing same heavy game's like NFS Underground II the system hang. After a reboot it says NTLDR is missing. I can fix that with no problem but the hang issue stays. The system runs Prime95 with no problem. When I look in logbook I see mass of disk-errors hdd0 and atapi errors. Any suggestion? Thanks Driekes What voltage and current values are printed on the Enlight power supply ? Maybe you have run out of +12V for all that stuff ? Try to find a really good power supply, just to use for testing. If you are building systems professionally, you should get a clamp-on DC ammeter. That is a tool you clamp around groups of wires (like the four +5V wires on the 20 pin ATX power cable), and take DC current measurements. You can then run 3DMark in Demo Mode or Prime95, and take measurements of the current being consumed from +3.3V, +5V, +12V. Compare the measurements to the limits printed on the power supply. http://www.extechproducts.com/produc...41_942_947.pdf By doing that, you will have a good idea as to what grade of power supply to buy, for the various classes of motherboards you sell. A couple of meters (a cheap multimeter, an expensive clamp-on ammeter) will help take the guess work out of system builds. A clamp-on ammeter can also measure AC current on the input to the power supply, but my experience is, the measurements are not too accurate when measuring idle power (when the computer is sleeping in S3 suspend to RAM), due to the current waveform being so distorted. A power supply with active PFC has the best looking waveform, as shown at the bottom of this page. The active PFC current waveform looks pretty close to a sine wave: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/oth...odology_9.html HTH, Paul |
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