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29-Oct-2009, 10:29 PM #1
P5K Premium - Stability
Hello TSG forums! Let me tell you about my hardware woes. Recently I've started to experience alot of system instability. After the one billionth blue screen of death I did some researching and decided to conclude that my motherboard is the source of the issues.

I went and reset my BIOS to factory defaults, which in turn sets SATA ports to Enhanced IDE mode, as opposed to RAID mode, which apparently is a source of problems with some hard drives and the P5K.

I've managed to get a solid installation of Windows 7 as far as I can tell, and I tried running some stress tests (still factory defaults in BIOS). OCCT in particular, and it's Linpack test. If you're unfamiliar with the Linpack test, it's an absolutely brutal CPU stress test sourced from Intel and made into a front end application by OCCT.

The Linpack test errors shortly after initiating it, temperatures never rising above 60c. However, the OCCT conventional test runs fine for an hour (Auto (1h) Medium data set).

So what would you jaded technological troubleshooting veterans make of this? Your answers on a post card please

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30-Oct-2009, 10:40 AM #2
I'm looking for anyone with previous experience with this motherboard.
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31-Oct-2009, 12:11 AM #3
I reseated my RAM, tried one module in each bank and ran Memtest a few times, then tried Linpack again and it works, even when overclocked! I tried the LinX and OCCT frontends just to be sure, no errors on either.

On air my Q6600 will easily hit 80c at 3.6GHz 1.4v, so I'm using a multiplier of 8 (3.2GHz 1.3v, 1.272v in Windows) at the moment. HSF is a TT120 for those who're interested.
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