and hibernation (!!!)
System spec:
Core 2 Duo 3.33Ghz 45nm
2x 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 PC8500
ATI Radeon 4870X2 (8.9)
Zalman ZM1000-HP PSU
Asus Xonar DX (6.12.8.1738)
GA-EP45-DS3L (f9)
Western Digital Black Caviar 1TB
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-216D (1.06)
On-board components - Drivers current as of 18th October.
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit w/ SP1
Prior to F9 my PC wouldn't resume from sleep, the fans would roar, go dead, then repeat over and over. With F9 applied I put the machine to sleep and brought it back to life. Success! I went to bed a happy man.
Unfortunately I found out that if the computer was left to sleep for a while it would blue screen seconds after resuming. The first couple were encouraging, a failure in the realtek driver and one in the USB, and it just so happened that new realtek and chipset drivers came out on te 15th October, so I applied them.
No luck, now it's BSOD for things I can't trace, and as they simply represent the last thing on the stack prior to crash this doesn't mean they're the cause either, they're just the most likely candidate.
I reset the BIOS to optimised defaults and changed three settings:
1. I enabled AHCI mode (it was on when Windows was installed)
2. I enabled native mode for AHCI.
3. I set HPET to 64-bit as I use Windows Vista 64-bit
Tested with this and the problem continued.
I went back to my customised settings:
1. All drives set to None (AHCI handles this)
2. All memory, VGA and CPU settings to auto, CIA to none. Reduced memory performance to Standard.
3. Hard drive first boot device
4. AHCI on with native mode.
5. Full legacy USB support
6. Allow mouse and keyboard to wake machine
7. Disabled Auzilla codec
8. Enabled green LAN
9. Enabled those additional levels of CPU power saving. Something level 2 and level 4?
Nope, crashes. CPU-Z (attached) shows the memory using the EPP profile though and the timings are in line with that profile 1066 5-5-5-15 2T.
Now I try optimised defaults but manually set the RAM timings to 1066 5-5-5-15 v2.1
Same problem
My latest test was to use hibernation, but upon resuming Windows crashed, reporting errors in hyberfil.sys.
I've run chkdsk /b and sfc /scannow, no problems.
I've run Windows Memory Diagnostics on all memory performance Standard through Extreme, extended test using at least eight passes every time. No problems.
memtest+ 1.7 reported a problem, but it was released before support for this board's chipset, so I don't know if that is reliable. I haven't been able to get memtest + 2.01 to boot, it hangs on Loading...
prime95 always stops one thread with a rounding error, but I haven't used it with all the above BIOS tests. I've been meaning to try a blend test with performance standard for the memory. CPU never goes above 60 Celsius, even when run for 18 hours.
I ran the quick check from WD Diagnostics on the hard drive, no problems. Haven't tried the thorough takes forever test yet.
No problems with the machine outside sleep crashes, apart from a crash I had during logon today, there was a sound stutter and then it blue screened. It was loading some app and I was UACing another app.
I don't run DES, the damn thing always crashed, nor is EasyTune on the machine because it always wanted to run (something) at startup, no matter what I told it.
Advice? Likely cause? I miss sleep so much.
System spec:
Core 2 Duo 3.33Ghz 45nm
2x 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 PC8500
ATI Radeon 4870X2 (8.9)
Zalman ZM1000-HP PSU
Asus Xonar DX (6.12.8.1738)
GA-EP45-DS3L (f9)
Western Digital Black Caviar 1TB
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-216D (1.06)
On-board components - Drivers current as of 18th October.
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit w/ SP1
Prior to F9 my PC wouldn't resume from sleep, the fans would roar, go dead, then repeat over and over. With F9 applied I put the machine to sleep and brought it back to life. Success! I went to bed a happy man.
Unfortunately I found out that if the computer was left to sleep for a while it would blue screen seconds after resuming. The first couple were encouraging, a failure in the realtek driver and one in the USB, and it just so happened that new realtek and chipset drivers came out on te 15th October, so I applied them.
No luck, now it's BSOD for things I can't trace, and as they simply represent the last thing on the stack prior to crash this doesn't mean they're the cause either, they're just the most likely candidate.
I reset the BIOS to optimised defaults and changed three settings:
1. I enabled AHCI mode (it was on when Windows was installed)
2. I enabled native mode for AHCI.
3. I set HPET to 64-bit as I use Windows Vista 64-bit
Tested with this and the problem continued.
I went back to my customised settings:
1. All drives set to None (AHCI handles this)
2. All memory, VGA and CPU settings to auto, CIA to none. Reduced memory performance to Standard.
3. Hard drive first boot device
4. AHCI on with native mode.
5. Full legacy USB support
6. Allow mouse and keyboard to wake machine
7. Disabled Auzilla codec
8. Enabled green LAN
9. Enabled those additional levels of CPU power saving. Something level 2 and level 4?
Nope, crashes. CPU-Z (attached) shows the memory using the EPP profile though and the timings are in line with that profile 1066 5-5-5-15 2T.
Now I try optimised defaults but manually set the RAM timings to 1066 5-5-5-15 v2.1
Same problem
My latest test was to use hibernation, but upon resuming Windows crashed, reporting errors in hyberfil.sys.
I've run chkdsk /b and sfc /scannow, no problems.
I've run Windows Memory Diagnostics on all memory performance Standard through Extreme, extended test using at least eight passes every time. No problems.
memtest+ 1.7 reported a problem, but it was released before support for this board's chipset, so I don't know if that is reliable. I haven't been able to get memtest + 2.01 to boot, it hangs on Loading...
prime95 always stops one thread with a rounding error, but I haven't used it with all the above BIOS tests. I've been meaning to try a blend test with performance standard for the memory. CPU never goes above 60 Celsius, even when run for 18 hours.
I ran the quick check from WD Diagnostics on the hard drive, no problems. Haven't tried the thorough takes forever test yet.
No problems with the machine outside sleep crashes, apart from a crash I had during logon today, there was a sound stutter and then it blue screened. It was loading some app and I was UACing another app.
I don't run DES, the damn thing always crashed, nor is EasyTune on the machine because it always wanted to run (something) at startup, no matter what I told it.
Advice? Likely cause? I miss sleep so much.
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