Thread: DX58SO and lockups

I’ve been having lockup issues ever since i had the board, at first this only happened when I was running 3D apps, I figured that maybe it was the drivers for the vid card, but today it locked up, (no BSOD, no nothing, just froze period, and the sound stopped) Now i know its sort of a new board so maybe its just one of those know bugs till they fix it, but its damn irritating. The latest crash happened in skype, so perhaps the cause is partially sound card driver related, I really don't know, I just want this issue to go away.

DX58SO Mobo (bios version 4196)
i7 processor
6 GB of Kingston memory
Using the crappy on board Realtek audio (AUD_allOS_5892_PV_RTL is the driver)
650 GB Hitachi hard drive
BFG 800 WATT PSU

OS: Windows vista ultimate 64 bit edition

Geforce 8800 GTS (640 MB version) Driver 182.50 as I heard the 190.365 may of caused issues.

Drivers, Heat, memory, psu (most likely) in sequence because the first 3 are easiest to test.

1) Remove all nVidia software (Control Panel), download the last qualified driver, and install fresh.

2) Use CPUID Hardware Monitor to record temps and see if lock-ups correlate to temps either in the gpu or cpu. Let us know what your temps are at idle, when it crashes, and what happens when you try to run 30 minutes of Prime95.

3) Repeat #1 with a single stick of memory installed (ie, run until you lock up; run Prime95). If successful, repeat with each other stick.

4) If/when all those show no change or no useful info, we'll talk about your PSU.

So when running prime95, do I have it run all threads, or does that part not matter? I would think running that many threads at max would overheat the cpu, dun want to damage it.

Thing is, I had this issue happen a few times with my last PSU which worked fine on the previous system. Sort of just swapped out PSUs before getting a newer one. I also had the 190.38 drivers, and removed those, and installed older drivers, a friend of mine said its having a PCI-Express 1.1 vid card in the 2.0 slot, even though its in compatibility mode.

You run Prime95 with all threads possible, and you set rounding error detection "On" in the menu. The purpose of this is to find out if your PC will overheat, while you are watching it.

To watch temps, download Realtemp, Coretemp, or CPUID Hardware Monitor.

Don't let Core Temps exceed 75C - just stop Prime95 if it gets close (so make sure you know how to do that fairly quickly). And don't leave the machine for more than a minute until you get the feeling your temps are truly stable.