Arnauld Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 HI everyone, I have been through the forum and there are interesting post everywhere. My PC is crashing when I am encoding videos, so I started investigating. I noticed my CPU temperature were going above 70's and thought the was causing the PC black out. I change my CPU fan for a Cooler Master Blizzard T2. Now in stays far below 55C. My PC is still not passing the AIDA64 stress test. So I isolated my test. CPU Test: okay FPU test: immediate crash after I click on 'start' button. lol Going through the forum I identify it could come from Power supply unit. I therefore changed my 460W PSU for a 760W Seasonic X series 80 Plus Gold. Click on 'start' button -> immediate crash (PC restarting). I tested memory: all okay. What would you suggest I do next? I have a HP Pavilion Elite HPE-498p: i7-870, 2,93MHz, MSI MS-7613, bus 133MHz, 8Go DDR3, NVidia GTX 460. Thanks in advance. Arnauld 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 1) Do you use AIDA64 v2.60? (latest version) 2) Is your system overclocked or otherwise tuned or altered from its default clock and timing settings? 3) Do you use the memory modules your computer was shipped with? Thanks, Fiery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnauld Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 1) Yes 2) No 3) Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Thank you. Can you please right-click on the "Motherboard" group in the left menu in AIDA64 --> Quick Report --> Plain Text. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnauld Posted October 14, 2012 Author Share Posted October 14, 2012 The report is now attached. Please note that I have now slightly overclocked the CPU (3.2GHz instead of 2.93GHz). I did it with AIDA, and I have not managed to set it back to normal. Here is the product spec as original: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02542167&cc=sg&destPage=document&jumpid=reg_r1002_sgen_c-001_title_r0002&lc=en&tmp_docname=c02542167 Again, the only hardware I changed are the CPU cooler and the PSU. Regards. Arnauld Report.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Thank you. If you have a chance to borrow two identical DDR3-1333 modules from a friend, then it would worth checking out whether it makes a difference. If you cannot do that, then it may worth playing around with the memory modules, because there may be one or two weak ones amongst the 4 modules you've got installed. Try removing two, and check out if it changes anything. If not, then try replacing the two installed modules with the ones you removed previously, etc. Make sure to have the 2 modules always placed in the DIMM slots that makes the chipset operate optimally (dual-channel; first DIMM slots usually). I apologize for not being able to provide better ideas on troubleshooting. Remotely it's usually quite difficult But what you did so far (installing a better CPU cooler and a new PSU) were both good steps in trying to hunt down the cause of the hardware issue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnauld Posted October 15, 2012 Author Share Posted October 15, 2012 Hello and thanks for your support, you do not need to apologize, you're providing great advise, I will try out the memories, and before I will try to find several memory test programs. How did you come to identify that 1 or 2 out of 4 would be weak? Statistical reasons? I am expatriate in Singapore and do not know have g33ks friends here.. So I guess I'll have to buy new memory bars, and as the PC do not like mixed manufacturers, I'd better be sure it's going to be the right choice. Thanks again for your support. As you mentioned, there are not so many sources for failure. Fan, PSU and memories are still hardware origin. Is there a possibility that the cause of failure is a software origin? If yes, how could I search for it? Cheers. Arnauld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 How did you come to identify that 1 or 2 out of 4 would be weak? Statistical reasons? There's a very slim chance that more than 1 memory module is failing, and an even slimmer chance that more than two. So yes, it's pure statisics And quite frankly, I personally am not fond of using more than two memory modules in a mainstream desktop motherboard (ie. one that has 4 DIMM slots and uses a dual-channel memory controller). So if there's any possibility of switching to just 2 identical memory modules, that alone could fix the issues in many cases. I'm not saying in your particular case that it is definitely the solution, but if you could just remove 2 memory modules, it's a test that worth the extra time and efforts. Removing two of them for a test doesn't cost any $$ at least So I guess I'll have to buy new memory bars, and as the PC do not like mixed manufacturers, I'd better be sure it's going to be the right choice. Before you continue spending more $$ on your system, make sure to try the "remove half of the memory modules" test run. Also, you may want to try playing around with memory timings as well, _if_ your BIOS Setup allows altering timings. Upping the Command Rate (CR or tCMD) from 1T to 2T might help as well to stabilize the memory controller. Is there a possibility that the cause of failure is a software origin?If yes, how could I search for it? I'm afraid software issue, operating system issue and configuration issue are always a possibility. A wrong device driver, a wrong service could cause all sorts of issues, not to mention potential malware that has already infected the computer. And then there's the slim chance that an installed software or driver getting "freaked out" when AIDA64 puts extreme stress on the system. Please note that the "FPU" subtest in AIDA64 System Stability Test puts such a heavy workload on the system that is quite unusual, and many systems fail to run that test for more than a few minutes. The "FPU" subtest is definitely the worst case scenario a computer could go through, but a properly built and properly configured PC has to pass that test to be considered a stable system So if you could save all your data, documents and settings, and have the possibility to completely reinstall Windows and all software from scratch, then it would definitely worth a try. Having a clean Windows installation could improve the response time of the system as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnauld Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi again, I am back. :-) I did further test with AIDA: 1. All CPU protocol passed with success: Queen, PhotoWorxx, ZLib, AES and Hash 2. With regards to FPU tests: - protocol Julia: passed - protocol Mandel: passed - protocol SinJulia: passed - protocol VP8: badly failed Can you help me understand what is specific to the VP8 FPU protocol that would make my i7 fail? And most importantly, is there anything I should do to pass it? Thanks. Arnauld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 When you say "VP8: badly failed", what exactly does happen on your system? Do you get a BSoD while running the VP8 benchmark? Or you get very low scores for VP8? (how low? what exact scores do you get?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnauld Posted December 7, 2012 Author Share Posted December 7, 2012 Click on 'start' button -> immediate crash (PC restarting). This is what I mean. To be more precise, the PC shuts down immediatly, just like a PSU failure, and then restart. That is why, one of the first things I did, was to upgrade my PSU (460w to 760w) but with no success. As a result, I get no BSoD or score. It just shuts down and restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 If any of the benchmarks or the System Stability Test causes the system to power off, then it's definitely a hardware flaw that needs to be addressed. If your system is overclocked, then try to restore all settings to their factory default values. Also, updating the motherboard BIOS to the latest one may also help. If those wouldn't help, and you already swapped the PSU, then it could either be a memory (RAM) issue or a motherboard failure. It's quite difficult to diagnose such issues remotely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnauld Posted December 24, 2012 Author Share Posted December 24, 2012 Just to keep you all updated and also in case this could help someone, I will explain below how I have managed to solve this issue. After contacting HP support specialist and going through all the 'fixes'I had done before, he could narrow the possibilities. It actually come from the hyper-threading. My PC is with an Intel i7, and hyper-threading was activated. Since I dis-activated it from the boot settings, the PC works fine, I managed to go through all FPU test and run all my games including Far Cry 3. Hope this help others. Cheers. Arnauld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeternam Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Hi everyone, i have same problem almost 8 months (sinjulia tests freeze pc). It wasn't memory issue. I found solution for me: i just lowered voltage for CPU from 1.20 to 1.15 (also CPU term. from 1.20 to 1.15) and changed RAM voltage from AUTO to Normal. After all - no more freezes and stucks (passed all FPU tests). Hope it will help somebody. My specs: OS: Windows 8.1 Home x64 CPU: QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L Memory: DDR2 4gb 800 (Transcend) GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTS 450 HDD: Seagate 500gb Sata II (5400rpm) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Hi everyone, i have same problem almost 8 months (sinjulia tests freeze pc). It wasn't memory issue. I found solution for me: i just lowered voltage for CPU from 1.20 to 1.15 (also CPU term. from 1.20 to 1.15) and changed RAM voltage from AUTO to Normal. After all - no more freezes and stucks (passed all FPU tests). Hope it will help somebody. My specs: OS: Windows 8.1 Home x64 CPU: QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L Memory: DDR2 4gb 800 (Transcend) GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTS 450 HDD: Seagate 500gb Sata II (5400rpm) Thank you for posting your solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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