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post #11281 of 11285
5/21/13 at 10:05pm
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Originally Posted by Diablo2424 View Post

I did a quick Google search found some posts on forums from 2008/2010 other members mentioned bad SATA ports as well as their DVD-RW causing system hangs.

PC keeps freezing, thought it was a bad HDD, new HDD(s) still freezing, disconnected all drives except one/swapped RAM around, stillll freezing.

Anyone have any idea's what could be causing this thing to hang? I know it's running cool enough (I've been watching temps in the BIOS - no problems at all with the water loop), and it doesn't look like RAM is the issue, I just left the 2 Corsair sticks in and ram Memtest for over 2 hours wiht 3 passes and no errors or freezing. It's only when I attempted to access the SATA drives does the system freeze.

I've got a bad SATA controller on my mobo. It's the middle one of the three. Any time I plug a drive into port 2 or 3, it throws drive errors as if the drive was dying. Move the drive to another port, and all is well. I've never had the system freeze, though. Have you tried moving your HDD around to all the different SATA ports?

Unrelated topic... since you use Linux on this mobo, how familiar are you with k10ctl? See my earlier posts on this thread within the last week.
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5/21/13 at 11:41pm
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I've got k10ctl installed now. After looking into its usage, I'm still a little confused. Here's what I've got on all four cores:
Code:
# k10ctl 0
VID interface mode: parallel

CPU0
Current P-State: 0      Fastest P-State: 0
               NbVid   NbDid  CpuVid  CpuDid  CpuFid           UNb   CpuMult      UCpu     PCore
P-State 0:        38       0      38       0      19       687.5mV  17.50000   687.5mV    7425mW
Low Limit:       124       1     124                       375.0mV   0.50000   375.0mV
High Limit:        0       1       0                      1550.0mV   0.00000  1550.0mV
Target:           38       0      38       0      19       687.5mV  17.50000   687.5mV
Current:          38       0      38       1       0       687.5mV   4.00000   687.5mV

As best I can tell, it looks like P-State 0 and Target are both set where they need to be, yet Current is down at 800 MHz. What must I do to set the CPU to 3.5GHz?

I figured it out, finally. I have no idea why this works, but it does. My problem seemed to be that I had only a single P-state defined. If I use k10ctl to create a second P-State (#1) that matches the 800 MHz setting ("Current" above), then switch to that P-State 1, then switch back to P-State 0 (the fast one), it all works. If I skip any of those steps, the system silently ignores my request to increase the clock speed.

I've created an init script that performs these steps on reboot. Here's the important part of it:

# Create a second P-state (#1) representing the 800 MHz setting
k10ctl 0-3 1 -nv 38 -nd 0 -cv 38 -cd 1 -cf 0
# Set the current P-state to the slower setting first, then the faster setting
k10ctl 0-3 1
k10ctl 0-3 0

If I run "k10ctl 0" after the above, I get what I really want:
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Current P-State: 0      Fastest P-State: 0
               NbVid   NbDid  CpuVid  CpuDid  CpuFid           UNb   CpuMult      UCpu     PCore
P-State 0:        38       0      38       0      19       687.5mV  17.50000   687.5mV    7425mW
P-State 1:        38       0      38       1       0       687.5mV   4.00000   687.5mV    7425mW
Low Limit:       124       1     124                       375.0mV   0.50000   375.0mV
High Limit:        0       1       0                      1550.0mV   0.00000  1550.0mV
Target:           38       0      38       0      19       687.5mV  17.50000   687.5mV
Current:          38       0      38       0      19       687.5mV  17.50000   687.5mV

And most importantly, the various benchmarks I've run absolutely scream now! (well, in comparison to my old Athlon 64 X2 5000+, anyway)

The BIOS sets the CPU multiplier to 17.5 (3.5 GHz) and the CPU voltage to 1.35V. RAM ganging is set to auto. Cool & Quiet doesn't seem to have any effect, but is currently disabled. I haven't really pushed it hard for more than a minute or so, but the CPU core temp hovers around 40C.

Just to help out those who google for this problem later, I'm gonna throw in a bunch of buzz words: Ubuntu Linux overclock Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AMD AM3 AM2+ Phenom II 965 970 975 980 BIOS 5001 multiplier
Edited by Obi-Wan-YJ - Yesterday at 11:44 pm
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5/22/13 at 5:25am
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Originally Posted by Diablo2424 View Post

I've had this board running without issue for a few years until the other day, Windows froze and upon reboot I haven't been able to get the system to stay running without freezing for more than 10 minutes.

My most recent setup:
Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe BIOS 5001
AMD Phenom II x4 940BE
CPU water cooling loop (EK Supreme HF)
2x 2GB Corsair XMS DDR2
2x 2GB G.Skill DDR2 (After adding this RAM I had to run in forced Unganged mode or else Windows wouldn't boot (when set to Ganged/Auto) which I thought was weird, but a friend gave it to me so I figured 4GB for free- why not!)
Asus nVidia GTX 560
1x Seagate SATA II 750GB 7200RPM
4x WD RE3 500GB SATA 7200RPM - RAID 0+1
1x Lite-on SATA DVD-RW
Antec Earthwatts 750W

At first I had a feeling that my Seagate 750GB (2 Partitions - 300GB for Windows / The rest for storage) HDD died, I noticed the PC took a long time to POST then once Windows booted it would almost instantly lock up. So I pulled the G.Skill RAM to eliminate that as a potential issue - same problem. Next I disconnected my RAID array and connected and extra WD RE3 500GB Hard drive, booted into Clonezilla off a USB drive to clone my Windows partition and boot off that drive instead of my Seagate, about %5 into the cloning process Clonezilla error-ed out stating bad sectors on the Seagate drive.

So far it was straight forward - Bad HDD - get a new one and continue with my life. So I pulled the Seagate and booted into Lubuntu Live off a USB drive to get online - after a few minutes THAT froze on me.

Weird, so now I'm thinking maybe it's RAM, I tried all different configurations, tried clearing CMOS multiple times, and no matter what I do the PC keeps freezing. (When running any live Linux Distro - or while trying to install said Linux distro from USB drive to the WD 500GB drive). So for the why not factor I tried ANOTHER drive (a WD 250GB SATA drive I had lying around) and the system STILL freezes. I did a quick Google search found some posts on forums from 2008/2010 other members mentioned bad SATA ports as well as their DVD-RW causing system hangs. So I disconnected my DVD-RW and swapped the WD 250GB to one of the other SATA ports... the PC is STILL freezing when running a Live Linux distro or while installing Linux to the drive.

TL;DR - Nothing changed - PC keeps freezing, thought it was a bad HDD, new HDD(s) still freezing, disconnected all drives except one/swapped RAM around, stillll freezing.

Anyone have any idea's what could be causing this thing to hang? I know it's running cool enough (I've been watching temps in the BIOS - no problems at all with the water loop), and it doesn't look like RAM is the issue, I just left the 2 Corsair sticks in and ram Memtest for over 2 hours wiht 3 passes and no errors or freezing. It's only when I attempted to access the SATA drives does the system freeze.

Almost seems like something on the mother board (SouthBridge maybe?) is acting up....

Thanks in adv.


Have you considered your PSU, maybe its getting weak, Sounds like you've covered every thing else, maybe try one known good stick of ram a clean little hdd different video card, you know strip it down to the bare essentials,and try and install a operating system,with the least amount hardware hooked up as you can...
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5/22/13 at 6:27am
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I've had this board running without issue for a few years until the other day, Windows froze and upon reboot I haven't been able to get the system to stay running without freezing for more than 10 minutes.

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Anyone have any idea's what could be causing this thing to hang? I know it's running cool enough (I've been watching temps in the BIOS - no problems at all with the water loop), and it doesn't look like RAM is the issue, I just left the 2 Corsair sticks in and ram Memtest for over 2 hours wiht 3 passes and no errors or freezing. It's only when I attempted to access the SATA drives does the system freeze.

Almost seems like something on the mother board (SouthBridge maybe?) is acting up....

Thanks in adv.

I posted this at XS, but since it might possibly be of some help someone else in the future I post it here too:

I had similar issues on a M2N-SLI Deluxe. The problems disappeared when I increased the voltage to the mohterboard chipset.
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5/22/13 at 7:05am
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I think i'll try the titanium, I hate to say it but I may upgrade to a ddr 3 board soon if I can find one with reviews that match the sturdiness I've had with this one, Any good advice on a updated AMD boards & chipsets w/ SLI capabilities , My son wants this board really bad, LoL

well i would say go for a 990fx board if you decide to upgrade sense the 990fx supports crossfire and sli depends on what your price range is seems like asus boards are a little bit more on the pricey side and you can get some others like gigabyte and asrock for cheaper i myself would go for a SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 which has pcie 3 but thats just me biggrin.gif but i hear that the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3 and UD5 are really good i just helped a friend build a new rig with a Formula-Z and i dont think it is worth the $240 price tag it seems sorta toyish compared to the m2n boards

wish foxconn would remake the destroyer in a 990fx biggrin.gif
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