FSB Clocking Issues

phalanx

phalanx

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Issue:

I had recently been having problems with my computer over heating. I would play a game for a while and it would shut down. I fixed this issue by installing the latest NVidia drivers for my 9600gt cards in SLI. I opened the case to make sure all of my fans were working properly as a precautionary measure, which they were, and i turned my fan speeds on my V8 heat sink and my Apevia 680w iceberg PSU.

I than noticed that in my MSI Dual Core Center while playing a game my FSB speeds would jump to excessive speeds, faster than my P6n MSI motherboard will support (800MHz, 1066MHz standard, 1333MHz O.C.). The FSB speeds were going to extreme jumps, the largest i saw was a 1400MHz. I went into my BIOS and set the clock speeds from automatic to manual at 1333MHz to see if that would help stop the issue. Instead, the issue persisted. Any ideas? Because I am all out of them.

Computer Specs:

Coolermaster HAF932 E-ATX Case
MSI P6N Diamond Motherboard (680i chip set)
Intel e8400 Core 2 Processor (3.0GHz)
Coolermaster v8 heat sink
EVGA 9600GT Superclocked (2x SLI, OC'd 750MHz Core, 1000MHz memory)
4GB Corsair XMS2 800MHz DDR2 RAM
Apevia Iceberg 680w PSU
 
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Make sure you're not running nTune or, as it's called now, nVidia Performance Tools. It's notoriously buggy.
 
okay ive gone into my services and disabled, ill get back to you if this doesn't remedy the issue.
 
have you just started having problems with it or has it happend when you first bought the computer?

PS: nice rig xD
 
phalanx2157 said:
Issue:

I had recently been having problems with my computer over heating. I would play a game for a while and it would shut down. I fixed this issue by installing the latest NVidia drivers for my 9600gt cards in SLI. I opened the case to make sure all of my fans were working properly as a precautionary measure, which they were, and i turned my fan speeds on my V8 heat sink and my Apevia 680w iceberg PSU.

I than noticed that in my MSI Dual Core Center while playing a game my FSB speeds would jump to excessive speeds, faster than my P6n MSI motherboard will support (800MHz, 1066MHz standard, 1333MHz O.C.). The FSB speeds were going to extreme jumps, the largest i saw was a 1400MHz. I went into my BIOS and set the clock speeds from automatic to manual at 1333MHz to see if that would help stop the issue. Instead, the issue persisted. Any ideas? Because I am all out of them.

Computer Specs:

Coolermaster HAF932 E-ATX Case
MSI P6N Diamond Motherboard (680i chip set)
Intel e8400 Core 2 Processor (3.0GHz)
Coolermaster v8 heat sink
EVGA 9600GT Superclocked (2x SLI, OC'd 750MHz Core, 1000MHz memory)
4GB Corsair XMS2 800MHz DDR2 RAM
Apevia Iceberg 680w PSU
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Voltage Info

Clock and Voltage Screenshots:
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Does that utility have the capability of overclocking your cpu? If so, it's nTune based and that's probably your problem. Graphics cards are ok for software overclocking, but CPU overclocking really needs to be done in the BIOS to be stable.
 
s14sh3r said:
Does that utility have the capability of overclocking your cpu? If so, it's nTune based and that's probably your problem. Graphics cards are ok for software overclocking, but CPU overclocking really needs to be done in the BIOS to be stable.
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It came with the motherboard, it bring info directly from the motherboard, it does have the capability to overclock, but i dont see why it would be the issue.
 
Software overclocking on nVidia chipsets is notorious for causing problems. I've seen several situations where someone installed utilities such as nTune just to be able to monitor temps and it caused all sorts of problems like you're having. Just to rule it out, I'd uninstall it and see what happens.
 
s14sh3r said:
Software overclocking on nVidia chipsets is notorious for causing problems. I've seen several situations where someone installed utilities such as nTune just to be able to monitor temps and it caused all sorts of problems like you're having. Just to rule it out, I'd uninstall it and see what happens.
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okay ill do, ill let you know how that goes
 
s14sh3r said:
Software overclocking on nVidia chipsets is notorious for causing problems. I've seen several situations where someone installed utilities such as nTune just to be able to monitor temps and it caused all sorts of problems like you're having. Just to rule it out, I'd uninstall it and see what happens.
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That seems to have fixed the problem, now, will my SLI continue to function without the nvidia tools?
 
Yes, just enable SLI in the nvidia control panel. If you want to do some overclocking on your video cards, I recommend EVGA Precision. For cpu temp monitoring, I like RealTemp.

Realtemp link
EVGA Precision link

You have to sign up at EVGA to download Precision. If you don't want to sign up, pm me and I can send it to you.

I'm glad this solved your problem. Like I said, I've seen software like that cause all sorts of problems.
 
s14sh3r said:
Yes, just enable SLI in the nvidia control panel. If you want to do some overclocking on your video cards, I recommend EVGA Precision. For cpu temp monitoring, I like RealTemp.

Realtemp link
EVGA Precision link

You have to sign up at EVGA to download Precision. If you don't want to sign up, pm me and I can send it to you.

I'm glad this solved your problem. Like I said, I've seen software like that cause all sorts of problems.
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I already use the EVGA Precision Tool, and i got the MSI Core Center to work without nTune, thanks again :)
 
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