Hello All,
I was a good boy this year and Santa has brought me some new toys to put together. My desktop was running fine, but I thought I'd upgrade to a real mobo (was using an ECS 671T-M...stop laughing). I swapped out the mobo and ram (got a new 4GB OCZ kit from Santa). I'm noticing that my system seems to "freeze" briefly. I can be moving my mouse across the desk and then the mouse will freeze on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. This behavior is really noticeable when listening to some music, it almost sounds like a CD skipping. I'm not sure what the issue is and am hopeful that someone here can shed some light on this. I'm running Memtest on it now to see if it's the new ram, which I'm not ruling out. I have not done any OC stuff with this rig, but will once things are stable. I did noticed that the mobo picked up my CPU as a 266x8 2.1Ghz. When I selected the optimized defaults, it then showed it correctly at 2.4Ghz. Since I only swapped out the mobo+ram and the system was stable before, it obviously has to be one or the other. I'm just hoping it's a setting somewhere that I need to tweak.
Here is my rig running Vista 32-bit (considering a rebuild with x64)
mobo: GA-EP45-UD3R (new)
ram: OCZ Reaper 4GB kit (new)
cpu: Intel Q6600
hd: WD 500GB(for OS/Apps) + WD 1TB(for data)
video: eVGA Nvidia 8400GS
psu: Antec 500w Earthwatts
case: Antec Sonata III (may need to swap out before OC'ing for better cooling...thoughts/comments?)
btw - I noticed some posts about this board and rev1.0 vs rev1.1, mine was a rev1.1 running the F3 bios. I tried upgrading it to F5, but same behavior.
TIA
DarkSide
I was a good boy this year and Santa has brought me some new toys to put together. My desktop was running fine, but I thought I'd upgrade to a real mobo (was using an ECS 671T-M...stop laughing). I swapped out the mobo and ram (got a new 4GB OCZ kit from Santa). I'm noticing that my system seems to "freeze" briefly. I can be moving my mouse across the desk and then the mouse will freeze on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. This behavior is really noticeable when listening to some music, it almost sounds like a CD skipping. I'm not sure what the issue is and am hopeful that someone here can shed some light on this. I'm running Memtest on it now to see if it's the new ram, which I'm not ruling out. I have not done any OC stuff with this rig, but will once things are stable. I did noticed that the mobo picked up my CPU as a 266x8 2.1Ghz. When I selected the optimized defaults, it then showed it correctly at 2.4Ghz. Since I only swapped out the mobo+ram and the system was stable before, it obviously has to be one or the other. I'm just hoping it's a setting somewhere that I need to tweak.
Here is my rig running Vista 32-bit (considering a rebuild with x64)
mobo: GA-EP45-UD3R (new)
ram: OCZ Reaper 4GB kit (new)
cpu: Intel Q6600
hd: WD 500GB(for OS/Apps) + WD 1TB(for data)
video: eVGA Nvidia 8400GS
psu: Antec 500w Earthwatts
case: Antec Sonata III (may need to swap out before OC'ing for better cooling...thoughts/comments?)
btw - I noticed some posts about this board and rev1.0 vs rev1.1, mine was a rev1.1 running the F3 bios. I tried upgrading it to F5, but same behavior.
TIA
DarkSide
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