Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P & AMD 965 BE Stability Issues Help

[shaxs]

So I just re-read this review. How did you get the bus up to 279 and 319? I swear I go over 205 and the whole system crashes.

[DL13]

Try this in your bios.

CPU Ratio X18
CPU Northbridge Freq X13
CPU Host Clock Auto
CPU Freq 200
HT Link Width 16bit
HT Link Freq X11 keep this between 1800 and 2200
Memory Clock set at manufacture specks and on the command rate set it to 1T DDR3 ram can run at 1T
DDR3 voltage set at manufacture specks
SB/HT voltage +0.2
NB/PCIe/PLL voltage +0.1
CPU PLL voltage 2.5
NB voltage 1.23
CPU NB VID voltage +0.125 should increase it little at a time if crashing, max is +0.2
CPU voltage start with +0.025 should increase it little at a time if crashing, max is +0.175 you shouldn't have to go this high my be +0.125.

Let me know how it gos and wright every thing down so if you make any adjustments mark it down. All was make small changes.

[DL13]

Here is Core Temp it monitors your temps better than AMD Overdrive and here is CPU-Z too.
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

[XstollieX]

If your memory is still clocked at the 1600mhz back it down. Every time you bump the fsb of your chip that is bringing your mem clock higher. I would back it down to 800mhz to oc the cpu and then once you find a stable chip oc you can bring your mem back up to speed.

[DL13]

If your memory is still clocked at the 1600mhz back it down. Every time you bump the fsb of your chip that is bringing your mem clock higher. I would back it down to 800mhz to oc the cpu and then once you find a stable chip oc you can bring your mem back up to speed.

Having a AMD Phenom II Black Edition you don't need to up the fsb just up the multiplier so you don't have to adjust the ram speed, the multiplier gos up to X22 I think which makes AMD easy to clock.

[shaxs]

Okay so I have another question.

I have 3 lcds with dvi connections and a Radeon 5870. Because the Radeon 5870 only supports 2 dvi + 1 displayport, I cannot power all three monitors on one card. I installed a Radeon 3400 to power my third monitor. So, I put the 3400 in the top pci express slot closer to the cpu. I put the 5870 in the lower one away from a lot of the heat.

My question is this: What is the default card for the system now? I've tried playing a few games and they run sllooowww.... I read the manual but it doesn't say which is the default if two cards are in.

[DL13]

Okay so I have another question.

I have 3 lcds with dvi connections and a Radeon 5870. Because the Radeon 5870 only supports 2 dvi + 1 displayport, I cannot power all three monitors on one card. I installed a Radeon 3400 to power my third monitor. So, I put the 3400 in the top pci express slot closer to the cpu. I put the 5870 in the lower one away from a lot of the heat.

My question is this: What is the default card for the system now? I've tried playing a few games and they run sllooowww.... I read the manual but it doesn't say which is the default if two cards are in.

You have the 3400 in the primary PCIe slot so the 3400 is the number 1 card and the 5870 is the number 2 card which means the 3400 is the default card.The 3400 is never meant to be crossfired with a 5870 as the 5800's are to much for such a sloooooowwwwwww card, what you are supposed to do is crossfire the same series cards together. You might want to consider getting a 5850 to go with your 5870 and put the 5870 in slot 1.
On the displayport, if you have a monitor with a displaport than you can run three monitor on the 5870. Unfortunately there are not that many monitors with a displyport and the once that has it are not cheap.

[shaxs]

I am not trying to crossfire.... I know they are not meant to and heck the 3400 cant even crossfire (at least not the one I have). I switched slots and all is good now.

[DL13]

Oh ok your not crossfireing sorry, in that case what you did switching them.

[shaxs]

Okay, not I am having wierd error after opening up the case and switching the cards.

You know when the computer posts and it shows the processor type then shows the amount of ram? Well, I get a weird freeze of 1 minute 8 seconds between those steps. Finally it sees the ram and continues the rest of the boot process.

Then when I get to the windows start screen it freezes at just saying Windows (Windows 7 64 Ultimate) and after a long period the Windows logo appears and it starts to laod Windows.

Once I am in Windows it seems to be fine, but booting into Windows takes forever. Any idea what can cause the freeze at the beginning and the freeze at the end?

[shaxs]

I did a check on times. Here is a breakdown on the boot process:

1 minute 8 secs: time from boot beep to ram showing up in post process
12 seconds: time from ram showing up to getting to 'Starting Windows' screen.
1 minute 6 secs: time from 'Windows Starting' screen to actually loading Windows and the Win7 logo appears
52 seconds: Time from Win7 logo appears until desktop appears.

Total: ~3:20 seconds. That seems wwaayy too long.

[DL13]

It sounds like you start-up is corrupted, put in your windows 7 disk and do a Repair Windows/ Repair Start-up from your disk, if that doesn't work remove the 3400 vid card and see what that dos.

[shaxs]

Would that cause the ridiculous time in post?

[DL13]

Would that cause the ridiculous time in post?

Yes, some times when changes are mad to hardware or software it can slow boot up, which is the most common cause.

[shaxs]

Did a windows repair.. no dice. Oh well, I guess I just wont reboot that often.

[DL13]

Try this, in windows bring up Command Prompt run it as administrator once that's up tip sfc/scannow see what that dos, if it shows something like repaired file than try a boot.

[shaxs]

No problems found.

[DL13]

Have you tried it with out your 3400 in?

[shaxs]

No I havent switched the video card around again. It works... Im going to just leave it at this point.

[DL13]

I'm starting to see that the 3400 is holding you back. Well it works now and ya leaving it at this point for now is a good idea.