Sunrex

GAH!. This thing has problems with huge messages...

Yes, I do have another CMOS battery, I'm not sure how good it would work though since its in another computer.

PSU is cheap but good quality. Heres the link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817339012

And I'm sorry to do this, but if you want to view HWMonitor and CPU-Z outputs your going to have to go to this forum: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=584402

I tried putting it here, but its to long and the forum wont allow it.

HWMonitor also has some voltage readings.

I ran Otheroes (Or whatever its called) for 12+ hours. CPU maxed at around 55C, testing both CPU and ram. NB maxed at around 119C.

No stability issues.

Sunrex

Also, I just grabbed the HDD diagnostic tools. I'll burn them once I'm home and do the scans.

thlnk3r

Sunrex, thanks for running a stress test with Orthos. Looks like your machine was able to handle the load. Have you performed a surface scan on the hard drives yet? Are you able to view the event viewer in Windows for any errors? You can access the event viewer by going to Start -> Run and typing in, "eventvwr.msc".

The other battery should be fine. The only downside in removing it from that system is that you'll loose the current BIOS settings that were saved.

Good luck

EDIT: Nevermind, looks like you're about to run the diagnostic tools on your drives

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Sunrex

I'm about to head home and do the tests, been busy.

Would switching from IDE mode to ACHI mode solve the issue?. I'll try anyway after the tests.

Cooling is a major issue though, I have the case open to cool it down. If I close it my GC reaches 100+C in Crysis (But with it open its only like 70ishC.) But thats expected from a micro case, im gonna have to find a cooling solution for it.

Heres the specs though:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811144162
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103773 (I ordered another a month or so later, so I have 2 CPU's)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227248
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148262
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133232
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817339012

Theres also a WD HDD in it.

Edit: Forgot the MB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128090

Sunrex

Apparently the Seagate tools never got on my PSP.. and nero has issues with Vista. Any good free ISO burning tools for vista?.

Switched to ACHI mode.... loading times went from 30-36 seconds to 16-17 seconds... Thats from BIOS to FULLY loaded Vista including all startup apps...

I'm hoping it solves my problem. I'll leave the computer off for a few hours to see if data corruption occures again. Also, my "average disk queue length" went from.. I believe it was 4?. to 1.083

EDIT: just grabbed the 64bit ISO Recorder for Vista. Hope it works!.

And, for the record I still think it was the IDE emulation on SATA... I'm hoping thats it anyway, since its really the only thing I haven't tried changing yet.

Bindusar

I skimmed a lot of the thread and while you have much bigger fish to fry I did want to mention that the above quote is way off. If AS5 is giving you higher temps than the stock stuff they send with the stock HS, especially if it is the goo that looks like tape but feels more like paste, then you are putting on the AS5 incorrectly. You should be using just a small amount of it...nothing like the amount the tape-like pad of goo would lead you to believe. In the correct amount AS5 will way out-perform stock paste.

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Sunrex

I put a small, half pea-size AS5, if even that. I believe its actually the HS thats the issue with AS5. But thats my opinion. (The one HS I did remove the tape from without using it the first time.. I removed the HS and cleaned off the AS5 and saw black/burn marks on the copper. The other one that had the tape on the first time did not have this.)

thlnk3r

Sunrex, interesting results with ACHI enabled. ACHI (advanced host controller interface) allows the operating system to use NCQ (native command queuing) and "Hot Plug". If this is enabled on a Windows XP system you'll get BSOD's and error messages before it boots the OS. This is why it's recommended to only enable this feature before installing the OS. The Windows XP installation requires the sata driver at setup. With Vista I believe this isn't the issue. I'm surprised this increased your boot times. From what I've heard NCQ on a desktop platform is sluggish. Perhaps HDTune would reveal some negatives.

Let us know how the surface scans go.

The black/burn marks are usually what is left over from the factory TIM (thermal interface material) after it's cleaned and rubbed off. I get that black/burning left over mark all the time. Unless of course your issue is different and it is some type of electrical burn but I highly doubt that.

Good luck

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Sunrex

I removed the WD drive for the time being, not going to risk the tests messing up ( Wasn't using it anyway ).

Short test came back with no errors. I tried a long test but the GUI messed up (Thought it was a error, if I dont move the mouse it works).

Interestingly enough, with ACHI enabled Seagate tools cant detect the HDD, but thats because BIOS wont even detect the HDDs. Apparently AMD has another little program for it that runs along side bios, or something.

Anyway, zeroed the HDD and reinstalled Vista. I then went to sleep. Woke up at 3AM and decided to do a long test. Went back to sleep, woke up. Test came back clean with no errors.

Turned off PC, went away for a hour or so. Tried booting up... heres where the issues start again.

This is what appeared on my screen the first time:

"The file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match the computed checksum." thats it. There was nothing else.

Restarted.

The HDD started having a weird buzzing sound and sometimes it sounded like grinding, fear not though. I have heard this for a while when windows was working, its not loud. Pretty quiet. No performance issues when this happened playing games, etc.

Second boot issues:

"File: \windows\system32\winload.exe

Status: 0xc0000221

Info: The file is possibly corrupt. It's header checksum does not match the computed checksum."

I then pressed Enter, and a menu came up with windows vista and memory diagnostic tool... I highlighted Vista and pressed enter. The OS booted up. This was without restarting the second time.

This is really highly annoying -why- would this only happen when I start windows. Not during windows?. Is the MBR corrupt?. Is the OS loader bad?.

That concludes what I've done so far. Advice needed badly.

Arakasi

This might be a shot in the dark, and im only trying to help.
I read your whole thread. So i am just going to come out and say it.
I went to gigabyte and pulled up a memory compatibility sheet.
Either im blind, or not an expert at memory and board compatibility, but that ocz 2 gig sticks is not on the list, or maybe i read your board wrong.
Have a look:

http://www.giga-byte.com/FileList/Me...ma78gm-s2h.pdf

Now everything you run loads into memory, some stays in after shutdown too.
Have you tried some 1 gig sticks, or possibly some different memory all together?

Good luck pinpointing your issue.
Edit:
Even though you ran memtest, that shows the " Ram " is good, does memtest take in to consideration of compatibility ? I never checked.
Also what is the voltage your board is giving your ram ?

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