Wow, you guys are awesome

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

OK. I will.
Prior to the CLR_CMOS, the BIOS was setting the timings to 5-7-7-24 even with Performance Enhance set to Turbo. Maybe that was a CMOS problem since it set them to the timings in the onboard RAM profile for 1066. I did not check with memset but CPUZ reported the ram speed at 1066.

I started memtest86+ while getting ready to go to work. It complete one pass with no errors before I left. It has not been able to do that over the last couple of days. I left it running but won't get a look again till this evening. I did set the DRAM voltage to 2.1. The BIOS did not do it on it's own. In fact, 2.1 is highlighted in pink in the BIOS in the manual settings even though it's the recommended voltage in the RAM's EPP profile.

The network icon came back on a reboot. WIN7 DOES automatically adjust for DST but it assumes that the BIOS does not so during DST, it adds an hour to the BIOS time. I assume that WIN7 is correct about the BIOS not making the DST adjustment.

So that's about it till I get home this evening and see how it did on an all day Memtest run. (I DID remove and reinstall both RAM sticks while I had it all powered off. There was no indication that either was not seated correctly but it's any old school fix for many electronic failures so maybe it helped.

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

Wow.
Memtest86+: 10 passes, 0 errors.

On the other hand, it was frozen. The test counters were stopped and it would not respond to the keyboard but the plus sign was still pulsing. I have no idea what to make of that.

But 10 passes with no memory errors is better than I've seen for a while.

Feedback? Should I leave it alone? I can run Prime95 (or some other test you recommend) tonight. Here's some screenshots for your further study. (CPUZ also reports the DRAM at 533.9 MHz.)

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

What are "Core speed" and "Multiplier" on CPUZ?

[Chike]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

5-7-7-24 is normal with XMP enabled and Turbo, XMP and standard should result in 5-5-5-15.
XMP would have set 2.1v even if in settings you'd see 1.8, as I said do not trust the default settings shown in MIT, you could check PC Health, or in EasyTune, and see it is set right.
MCH Core 1.2-1.24v normally needed for 4GB memory.
You may also try and set Performance Enhance to standard, static tRead Value to 6 manually for both channels, and Driving Strength 1066 for both channels.
Leave Prime95 blend for the night. In case it failes FFT size may indicate where the problen is, if you get a BSOD the error number may.
Static tRead Value 5 may be possible but start with 6 and see how it goes.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

Core speed in CPU-z is your CPU freq, and Multiplier is the CPU multiplier. So you either have things set to 2Ghz, or you need to disable speedstep (C1E & EIST)

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

So you either have things set to 2Ghz

Optimized defaults.
Prime 95 - 6 hours, no errors.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

It's still 2Ghz with speedstep enabled though, I was just letting you know in case you were unaware of the CPU speeds.

Congrats on the stability though, what is the load CPU Speed?

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

So it's speedstep. I watched CPUZ and it jumped to 2.83 as soon as prime95 started. Is there any reason to disable speedstep? I don't care what speed it runs at when it's idling. Should I?

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

And next, any ideas on the Memtest freeze? I can run it again for a while today but don't see the point if it's not going to tell me anything. Is that a common thing? No errors but frozen?

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

Ahh well if you don't care about the idle speed and you are stable then ya that is fine to leave as it is.

Memtest, is it memtest86+ 4.0? If not please use that version
Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

A freeze means errors, it just froze right when it started to error most likely. How long into the test were the results, wall time? Either way it is a error, possibly you need a bit more voltages on something

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

Yes, 4.0. I don't recall the wall time but it had 10 passes with no errors so I'd say at least a couple of hours, maybe a bit more.
Yah, well, I'm 53. I COULD use a bit more voltage on some things.
But what?

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

Well with 10 passes it's hard to say, may not be fully memory at all, could be NB or CPU issues.

How does Prime95 do on blend, small FFT and large FFT? Run each one for a few hours and see, if one fails let us know which method failed.

You could also run Memtest and run only test 5 or 7 or 8 and see if it fails quickly or not, these are the stressful tests.

C, then 1, then 3, then test number, then 0 to start again, is how you change test number used in Memtest

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

OK, thanks. Probably be tomorrow before I can do all that. I'll let my wife have at it today. She has shown a genuine talent for generating BSOD's. She plays games and surf's shoe sites. The games are simple, computer wise, puzzles and "find the object" stuff. No high stress graphics or fast action stuff.

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

Did a couple of passes for all three Memtest tests - 5, 7 and 8 - no errors. Discovered that USB keyboard support was disabled in the BIOS which may be why Memtest appeared to be frozen before.

Ran Prime95 blend for 2-1/2 hours with no errors and small FFT for 3-1/4 hours with no errors.

That's it for the moment.

[wallypiper]

Re: Wow, you guys are awesome

And Large FFT for 2-1/2 hours with no errors.

I guess at this point, I'm going to leave it all where it is. Maybe I'll run Memtest again tonight for a long run and see if the keyboard not being enabled just fooled me into thinking it had frozen.