[875P Neo] Random crashes

I got various problems with
875P Neo-FISR (PCB 2.0)
1G Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PRO
ASUS 8420 (or 8240 don't really remember now) Ti4200
Creative SBLive! Value - need it because of gaming port.
All have latest drivers. The system runs at "setup defaults" all the performance related stuff set to "slow", no overclocking either. I've also noticed if I disable Hyper Threading the errors come out twice as fast.
win98 problems: I experience strange "out of memory errors" when running mechwarrior 4 mercenaries over internet (connected to the DLink LAN router). It crashes randomly after 4 - 10 minutes of the game. At some stage I got to a point when I could play for about 1 hour straight without crashes. I zipped that windows configuration and decided to try different video drivers, since then it fails every time.
w2k problems: random crashes occured couple of times:
I was doing windows file search on both network and local drive, at some point it's just rebooted without warning.
Second crash was when I was running antivirus software: heavy access to FAT partition. Though it's not the virus since the rest of the drives show no viruses.
I'm trying to find some decent overall testing utilities so I can reproduce the problem 100% and get it replaced or something. Can you recommend anything?

Hi borg,
You posted similar in another thread.......please follow what I have said and check the link.......
You will NOT have problems.....
I have tested both win98se and winME upto 1.5Gb Mem and no problems!!! Gaming is super fast!!!
Have also used RAMDISK software......but had problems under win2K and NT......so not advised...
Win98 has yet to be beat AS the best gaming Platform yet!!!! I say though Doom under DOS 6.22 is better than Doom under Win 95, 98, etc....
Del

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Random crashes/reboots - Neo-FIS2R

Hello,
I’m experiencing apparently random crashing on my new system (see sig). It looks like a power outage – no BSOD or anything. The screen just goes dead and the system starts rebooting. All the fans (and the disco lights - thank god) continue to run during the crash. I haven’t yet been able to discern a pattern as to when it happens, though it only seems to occur while I am using the system – it can run all night by itself with no crashes.
I’ve been installing a lot of music software and just recently started playing around with it, so I am suspicious of my sound module and drivers (DirectPro 24/96), which haven’t explicitly been tested against the 875P chipset , though the drivers claim compatibility with my OS.
I am also suspicious of the motherboard/BIOS, which we all know has had a few quality issues.
Anyway, I was wondering if I could narrow the search a bit based on the type of crash I’m seeing. If this were a driver problem, wouldn't I be seeing a BSOD?
Any pointers? Could the power supply (Thermaltake W0009R ) be a suspect?
The CPU fan is getting its juice from the PSU directly, not through the mobo. I used to have it hooked up to the mobo, but our CoreCenter kept shutting the fan off (and leaving it that way).
I'm not overclocking, and have not adjusted any voltage/timing settings for the CPU/memory beyond what they're spec'd for. I've disabled my friendly neighborhood CoreCenter software, so the only MSI software running on my system is the BIOS and drivers. Currently running v1.2, which is what the board shipped with.

Legal-Tech,
Thank you very much for the pointers - that got me my beloved BSOD. Only thing I had to do after that was to find out which driver was causing the problem, using the TrackLockedPages registry setting (MS KBA's referenced below).
I think I may have pinpointed the problem, and it's NOT the motherboard or the BIOS. I will probably need a couple more days of trouble-free operation to be sure, but I think the problem was with my USB Midi Keyboard Controller driver software. Uninstall/reinstall seems to be working for now.
For anyone else with XP who might need to go through the same process, if you don't already know, you can follow these Microsoft KBA's (in order) to do your troubleshooting...
These first two should identify the problematic driver:
System Failure and Recovery Options
Track Locked Pages
You can use this to find out more details about the specific crash:
Inspecting Minidump Files
Thanks again...

875P Neo-FIS2R File Copy errors loading Win XP Pro

While installing WinXP Pro SP 1 I get file copy failures on random files two or three times during the install. Retry succeeds on the file, but errors keep coming up after install randomly. Explorer crashes on logon, files are corrupt, etc. Tried two different MBs, two different CPUs, two different PSUs, two different sets of RAM, different IDE cables, booting from both DVD Drives, different Win XP CDs. I also tried the same with a Gigabyte 875 board and had exactly the same problem. With the Gigabyte board, if I ran the bus with a setting of 190 or 195 instead of 200MHz, the system ran fine, but then my 2.8GHz CPU is running at 2.66GHz. I can't go slower than 200MHz (but I did try 201 and 202; same errors) on the Neo-FIS2R so I can't find a setting that is stable and that's the board I'd like to be running. Any ideas about what's causing all of these combinations from running stable at a stock setting of 2.8GHz?
Thanks.
Mike Wolfe
P4 2.8C @FSB 200, HT Enabled
Corsair Platinum TwinX DDR400 2x256MB
875P Neo-FIS2R Bios Version 1.8
ATI AIW 9600 Pro 128MB No OC
PowerUp 350W Power Supply
WD2000JB 200GB; Master on IDE 1; No S-ATA
Sony DDU 1621 16x DVD ROM Master on IDE2
Sony DRU-510A DVD+-R/RW Slave on IDE2
BIOS Defaults - 200MHz CPU Bus - DDR Voltage 2.7V
On Board Promise Disabled; IDE Bus Master; P-ATA Only

I am also having trouble with this on xp pro. When fully installed I get many random errors. New at this but have read that if you install a partition more than 137 gb data corruption may occur. So I partitioned the drive 20, 70, 70, and installed xp pro on the 20 gb partition. Per mb and hdd manuals I installed xp sp1. I am still getting random errors. This is the only hdd. Maxtor 160 gb ata 133 on ide1. Is it impossible to run the system this way? It gives me random crashes and stop requests. It also at one point gave me erros saying the cdrom memory is corrupt. Is the hdd drive sze possibly the problem?
MSI 875p max fisr
corsair twinx xms 333 1 gb
ati raideon all in wonder
samsung 352 cdrw
antec 430w true power
3.0 g intel p4

Random Crashes.....Motherboard at fault?

Alright, here's the story. I just built a new system for myself. (for a complete system component listing, see below) However, to my dismay, the system is plagued by seemingly random crashes.
I run Windows XP Professional, and just about any old time, the screen will flash blue all of a sudden (stop error) and then the machine will reboot itself. This happens during games, driver installations, audio editing, music playback, you name it. If the system is doing anything at all, there's a possiblity it will crash.
Sometimes, upon reboot, I will get a message that informs me that Windows cannot start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows\system32\config\systm and I will have to perform a manual registry repair per Microsoft's published method.
So the main question is, IS THIS THE MOTHERBOARD? I've run through all the other components and I can say that these arn't the cause.
The only IRQ I'm sharing happens to be IRQ 10, between the sound card and the onboard ethernet.
And yes, I'm running current versions for all drivers in question as well as all windows updates.
Does anybody know what is causing this, or more importantly, how to fix it?
Thanks for all your replys in advance.
~Mr. Fox
System Config
MSI Neo 875P-FSR2
Pentium 4 3Ghz 800Mhz FSB
Corsair TwinX 3200LLPT DDR 400 Memory (512mb x 2)
PNY GeForce4 Ti 4600
Creative Sound Blaster II Audigy
TDK CD Burner 16/10/40
IBM 7200 RPM 60 gig drive
IBM 7200 RPM 13.6 gig drive

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Originally posted by Mr. Fox
I'm using Bios version 1.4, the newest that is availible on the US site.
My vDimmm was set at 2.5 but I'll try uppping it to 2.6 thanks!
Any other input would be great!
Mr. Fox -
Did changing your memory voltage setting help rid you of those WinXP blue screen/reboots?
I'm curious, in general, how the different types of Corsair memory respond using different voltage levels.
I've got a couple of Corsair memory sticks myself, and upped the memory voltage to 2.7V. Prior to doing that, I was seeing blue screens quite quite often. I now get "blue screened" about 1-2 times per week (which is still too often, IMHO.) Given that I overclock my system, though, I can't complain.
Regards,
BarkingDOg

Weird random crash

When i am playing games, sometimes i get a random crash. The crash is like the game freezes, the sound starts repeating really fast, almost like a buzz. The only thing to do is hit the reset button. Once i hit reset, the post code indicates a video error, (ami bios, 1 long 2 short). But if i power off, then power on the post screen comes up and says "The previous performance of overclocking is failed" (even though i was not overclocking!!!) I then hit space bar to go into bios, save bios and exit, and everthing is fine.
This is generally during games, it started with far cry 2, i thought it may have been an issue with the game, but then it showed up in crysis warhead, the witcher, and most recently arkham asylum among others. In arkham it seems to happen at the end of the combo when it goes into slow motion knocking down the last bad guy. But other than that i havn't found any patterns.
it would also happen whenever i tried to update the same game with the ingame windows live update.
this seems to have appeared after i changed processors, but ... read on
I am fairly confident it is not overheating, all system temps remain stable and system is well cooled.
I have stress tessed the cpu with 4 windows of cpu burn in, for around a day long, with no issues, also stress tested with prime 95 for a long (approx 20 hours ) period with no issues and good heat dissipation, so it makes me wonder if it is the cpu?
I have stress tested the video card with ati tool, video card stress test, furmark ozone3d, and 3dmark 06 with no issues. furmark raised the temp way higher than any game has and nothing wrong.
I updated motherboard bios thinking maybe it was an issue that had to be straightened out with the chipset, but no difference. (before i update i had ami v1.8, and instead of 1 long 2 short, it was 8 short beeps, but both are video card related)
all drivers are up to date..
tested memory for 20 + hours with memtest 86+ and windows memory diagnostic, both reported no errors.
* Motherboard brand & model- MSI k9a2 neo-r
* CPU model (and is it overclocked?)- amd x4 940 be (at stock)
* Video card(s) evga 8800 gt, 512mb
* RAM modules brand & model patriot ddr2 800, 2x 2048
* Power supply brand & model silverstone st50ef plus 500 watt
sound blaster audigy 2 zs....
I am going to swap the 5000 back in, and see if it still occurs, since it showed up when i change to the 940, but just wondering if anyone had any input or seen anything similar before. But the bios beeps referring to video problems also make me wonder, maybe the board itself can't handle the cpu.
Thanks

Ok, so I think i have made some progress, it doesnt seem to be the cpu.. but it is the video card. I did a few more stress tests and noticed that the card (using furmark) was reaching 100+ degrees C.( while cpu stayed in mid 30's) Around 105, boom, computer crash. I didn't think I was reaching this high of temps in games though, so I need to find a way to monitor the gpu temp in games. It is kind of weird that this started with the new cpu though.... but i put in a new cpu fan as well, I added a xigmatech hdt -s1283, so maybe it changed airflow or something? I need to explore this a little further tomorrow. Will also apply some mx -1 paste and reseat the gpu heatsink. and improve case airflow if possible.
This is kind of puzzling still, because from alt-tabbing in and out of games, or looking at evga precision after a session, the highest gpu temps are typicall less than 80 under load in games.

875p neo doesn't always boot

More often than not if I shut down the pc it will not always turn back on. (it will "click" like it wants to boot but doesn't do anything more than than.. like the power came on for a split second) If I leave the power off a while it usually will boot. Sometimes I have to clear CMOS to get it to boot.
Then sometimes if I shut it down it will immediately reboot instead. Similarly sometimes when I connect power it will boot without me pressing the on switch. And then sometimes it will "click" repeatedly when I connect the power.
Once it's running everything is fine.
Anyone have any ideas what can cause this?
fk

Faithkills
Id deffinately say PSU problem i have an almost exact match to your system, mine is 100% stable (I dont use CoreCenter, Motherboard Monitor and MSI's WMI program give me random reboots) ...i did have to increase my DDR voltage to 2.7v -after flashing to the 1.4 BIOS
P4 3.0G 800 FSB
Antec Truepower 330W PSU
2 * corsair pc3200 256mb ddr
875p NEO-LSR
Geforce3 64 (i also use the ASUS 8200)
witchywoman it depends on the max power for each voltage line -not all PSU's give the same even if their rating is equal or above
http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20030609/index.html
I would recomend atleast 450W for a new PSU (to give upgrade potential)

High FSB's 875P NEO

Whats the highest FSB people have got on the 875P NEO? im stuck at around 260 FSB, im sure the chip will go higher.

I got to 224 (2.4c) with the 1.4 bios, won't go any further at all. No way no how.
Did manage to get it upto 250 with core centre and ran fine for a couple of days, then it crashed and solidly refused to boot into XP ever again.
Booted up in safe mode, removed core centre and all was fine. But now if I even install core centre the machine locks up, crashes and refuses to get to the XP desktop.
Don't know about anyone else but here in the UK we have a little thing called the sale of goods act. I don't think this board was fit for the purpose for which it was sold, namely an overclocking board.
Anyone fancy a class action against MSI?
Drewy
(just teasing)......

875p neo tweaking and overclocking help needed

Hi all,
Ive had this set up for a few years but never once tweaked the bios for performance and now is the time
System as follows,
875p neo / amibios 3.3
P4 3.0ghz / 512 / 800
2 gb corsair 1 gb crucial ram
Radeon (his) x850 pro agp 256 gddr3
OCZ powerstream 520
4 system fans
2 x 80 gb wd sata
Ive just swapped the ram around to try and get dual working and decided to get the hoover out as well, good job I did because the cpu heatsink had a great wad of dust on the underside and maybe that explains the 70 degree temperatures and system slowing down.
What im looking for is advice on how to get the best out of the cpu / ram / agp card and want to overclock as high as poss without melting the cpu.
Any tips would be great,
Mick

Ok, the combo of all 4 sticks has started causing instability so ive now removed the crucial 2 x 512 and left with the corsair as 1gb in dimm 1 and 1gb in dimm 3. Im happy to stick with this but cannot adjust the bios to make use of the ram's very fast timings of 2,3,3,6 - if I do anything other than auto spd the system crashes, this is a bit of a let down because the options are there in front of me and this new ram cost me a lot of money. I am a little unsure with the ram timings in bios as there are 5 timings and I only have 4 timing specs from the corsair website, the 5th timing in bios is dram burst length and I dont know what I should set this too ?
Yes I believe I have a northwood and I can now try ddr volt at 2.7 and 2.75, this option is now available after removing the other sticks.
If anyone can suggest a way of getting the best out of these 2 sticks I would really appreciate it.
Cheers

[875P Neo Series] Dead mobo or dying ??

-Motherboard type and model (MSI 875P NEO-FISR)
-Bios type and revision (Latest)
-CPU type and model (3,2 P4 HT)
-Memory name, model and quantity (2 x Kingston KVR400X72C3A/512)
-Video card name and model plus drivers and version (ATI AX800 PRO)
-Power Supply name, model and the amp rating for the +3.3V, +5V and +12V lines plus any limitation on the +3.3/+5V combined watts. This information can be found on a sticker on the side of the supply. (Q-TEQ ATX 350, 3.3V = 20A, 5V = 0,5A + 35A, 12V = 0,5A + 17A, 5VSB = 2A)
-Hard Drives: (2 X 200 GB WD)
-Optical Drives: Manufacturer and type and which IDE ports they are located on: (NONE)
-Operating system and service pack level: XP SP2
the short version:
the mobo went unstable and started hanging when playing 3D aplications like medal of honour, wolfenstein ET and others...
then the hangs started occuring more rapidly, and now the pc starts VERY randomly
i often have to try to start it 10-15 times before it starts....
the chipset and cpu fan starts, the hd drives starts and the ROM starts, but no signal to vga card.
i have tried to reset chmos, changed vga card, stripped the pc, but nothing works..
and: it has worked for over 7 months without any probs...
is it possible a virus did this ??
can anybody help ???
please ???

350 watts is far to low for your system............
Min AMPS on +12V rail for your system should 24AMPS
Q-Tec do not have good rep and have caused at lot of problems
Try a brand name 450+Watt PSU Enermax or Antec or Hiper series (These I have personally tested)

Some random crashing problems in AE CS3...

So I've only had CS3 for about a month now (had 6.5 forever) and I'm having some stability problems. Using vista 64 but had the same problems in 32 bit vista (and windows 7 which I tried for about a week).
First it was crashing because of divx, I uninstalled divx.
Then it seemed that Cineform Neoscene was crashing it, they released an update and I reinstalled Neo scene with the update and that stopped crashing it. Now I get somewhat random crashes that just say App crash and I get a message pop up that says
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files (x...
R6025
-pure vital function call"
What is this and how do I stop it from happening? It seemes to happen in Encore and Premiere aswell.
I am running as administrator...
Thanks.

Most of the footage is cineform files, converted using the latest version of neo scene. But its happened before I've even opened a project or imported any kind of files. Audio is PCM. Sometimes the error will come up and if I hit x instead of "close the program" it stays running just fine, other times it will close.
Adobe updater updated everything by itself, know it updated all the core programs, etc. (using Production Premium)
Every available vista update is installed including service pack 2. Latest nVidia drivers, etc. I ran spybot and antivirus software today.
All the OS were on the same system but the HDD was completely formatted inbetween installs. Yes W7 RC was used.
Core 2 Duo T9300
4GB RAM
nVidia 8600M
1 internal 320GB HDD
1 external esata 1TB HDD
Blu ray read + write drive
I have a feeling it could be something to do with Cineform but what and why?
EDIT -
It just happened when I tried to open Encore and crashed before the program even started with this in the details:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Adobe Encore.exe
Application Version: 3.0.1.8
Application Timestamp: 46cf7628
Fault Module Name: libguide40.dll
Fault Module Version: 4.0.2007.602
Fault Module Timestamp: 4661a089
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000133f0
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

875P-Neo FIS2R v1.0 BIOS Problems

Purchased PC in June w/875P-Neo w/1ea. 80G SATA, 2ea. 200G ATA-133 w/SATA Adapters as RAID 0, Windows Server 2003, NVidia TNT 32M AGP Video, Floppy, and Pioneer DVD-RW, using 2G Kingston DDR 400 Dual-Channel RAM. PC in Box with 7 Case fans, and P4-2.8GHz 800FSB w/CNPS-7000 Copper Flower CPU Fan/HS.
Once or twice per week W2K3 would lock up with basic desktop but no taskbar and no keyboard or mouse function (arrow moved, but that's all). Tried all software and BIOS settings I could think of to no avail. Downloaded and installed v1.6 from MSI and all seemed OK but as I was going through BIOS checking/changing settings as required my video would start jumping and dashes and underlines would appear randomly on screen. Problem would get worse the longer I was in the BIOS setup. I could not get W2K3 to boot after v1.6 so tried the recover process. This appeared to work until I tried the re-boot after getting the 4 beeps. Now all that happens is the BIOS wants to continuously recover from floppy beeping 4 times every time. If I remove the floppy it would keep looking at the floppy drive forever, beeping once every now and then.
I returned the PC to where I purchased it and they replaced the mainboard which seemed OK. I had the tech flash the BIOS before bringing it home with 1.6. After I got it home, I began getting the same behavior as before the recover process on the first MB (above). I decided to see if I could get the system to take BIOS v1.4 since I have another computer with that version that is stable. It worked! So far the PC seems OK with v1.4 except I wanted some of the features in the new versions.
What is going on with v1.6? Have others had probems with this BIOS version? Is v1.5 safe?
BTW, I used the RAM Disk method of updating the BIOS everytime except during the recovery attempt.
Thanks,
UProsper

Actually everything is brand new as of June and all components are matched. The Video is a 4X AGP (1.5v) and has worked fine before the v1.6 BIOS. The tech that installed my replacement MB told me the BIOS version in the MB originally was v1.2, but I didn't actually see the screen from the original BIOS before it was updated. What's strange is two boards behaved the same with v1.6. I did get the new MB to settle down with v1.4 and I have another computer with the 875P-Neo and v1.4 working fine.
Either v1.6 has issues or there is something unique about my configuration that it has problems with. I don't dare update my other computer (that is configured differently) to find out. I really want some input from someone at MSI or someone who has experienced similar results with v1.6 and this board. I am hoping there is something with 1.6 that will be fixed in the next release.
Thanks,
Steve

875P Neo-L Boot fail, mixed D-LED errs.

Hello all pros :D.
I'll start this off with the basics, my system specs:
MSI 875P Neo-L (BIOS 1.6)
Pentium 4 3Ghz HT CPU (Frequency locked)
Zalman CNPS7000-AL CU cpu cooler (Artic Silver thermal grease)
TwinMOS 512 MB PC3200 CL2.5 (2.5-3-3-8/auto) memory
IBM DeskStar 75GXP IDE ATA100 HDD (attached to primary channel, master)
Asus GeForce 4 Ti4800SE AGP 8X 128 MB DDR graphics card
460W LePont/SuperFlower ATX P4-certified PSU
Dual PAPST 12DBa 80MM case fans (intake & exhaust)
Fong Kai FK-603 Midi-tower ATX case
Keytronic standard Swedish-layout PS/2 keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse explorer 3.0 optical USB
Windows XP SP1 Pro English
Generic floppy drive
I've used the following BIOS settings in my tests:
Fail safe defaults and Optimized defaults
- Tried to enable/disable: FDD Controller, HT, onboard LAN, with no effect on the problem. Other settings follows (different also tried): slow memory settings, 2.60-70V memory voltage, 128 MB AGP arperture size. All others standard.
BIOS 1.6 runs the best, 1.7 has the same effect as all the other lower revs. The problem persists in 1.8 but also decreases system performance noticeably.
The actual problem:
The system refuses to boot up. In 40 cases the system boots once.
The D-LED's signals either a keyboard controller init msg or AGP init msg, randomly.
In the cases where the system does not boot, it does not either light the case front panel's power LED or signal any HDD activity (drive gets spun up due to poweron, etc).
The system does not beep in any way when it refuses to boot correctly.
I've tried changing the PSU for a enermax 430W one with no effect (voltages were ok with both), tried changed memory for some TwinMOS-winbond with no effect, tried changing graphics card for a MSI GeForce 4 MX 440 AGP with no effect, tried to boot without HDD attached with no effect, tried to use other PS/2 mouse and keyboard and without both without any effect, verified clock battery to be fully functional (tried with brand new battery also), removed and also replaced floppy drive with no effect, had machine unplugged for over 120 minutes without bios battery for total reset with no effect, tried to boot machine without AGP card at all - no error beep/change in D-LED info or likewise effect, tried to boot machine without RAM at all - no error beep/change in D-LED info or likewise effect.
When the machine is operating CPU temperatures are within normal ranges (43-53 C) and the CPU does not throttle down the speed.
Typical error flowscheme:
System running -> I shut it down or choose reboot -> System powers down and fails to powerup with one of the above D-LED infos.
->
I have to hold down power for 3-4 secs for the system to poweroff, then turn it on again and repeat 15-75 times until system boots up.
->
BIOS settings checksum fails, press F1 and go into the bios to typically raise memory voltage and AGP arperture size.
->
Machine shuts down when choosing save and fails to powerup.
->
I have to hold down power for 3-4 secs for the system to poweroff, then turn it on again and repeat 15-75 times until system boots up. System runs fine until I have to do step one again.
As you can guess this is becoming something of a problem.
I got the motherboard & CPU from MSI via DHL delivery when I won a web-contest they had for the board when it was new so I have to send it all the way to Taiwan to RMA it according to my local MSI dealer (which would take 3-7 weeks and cost several hundred in postage with a secure delivery firm like DHL). As the computer is my bread and butter literally as I'm a student, this is not a good choice.
As you can read above I've narrowed it down to be either the CPU or Motherboard with a 99.99% assurance, and I'm kind of betting it is the motherboard.
So does anyone here have an idea what to do? I've read over 15 threads about this board and tried random suggested stuff for all kinds of problems with no effect to my situation.
Any help at all would be greatly appriciated.
Henric Blomgren

I emailed MSI's support now once again with the same message I included in the top (and went through the autoresponder-resent procedure), no answer yet but we'll see if they get back to me this time. Otherwise I'm starting to doubt if I will ever get it sorted =/
If so, is the Neo2 boards with the 865PE chipsets more or less as good, as I won't be able to afford one of those 875P Neo boards to replace my current one?
/Henric

K8N Neo - Random Hang - Memtest Fail

I'll make this quick:
Have MSI K8N Neo Platinum (BIOS 1.4), Athlon64 3000+, 512MB GeIL Golden Valur DDR3200, Radeon 9800 Pro, 160GB Maxtor SATA. No overclocking.
Everything installed (XP Pro) fine but lots of random crashes and freezing, both in games and browsing internet, etc...
Ran memtest86, which returned around 980,000 errors after an hour or so! - seems all on Test 5. Faulty RAM or just incompatible???
Getting 512MB Crucial Ballistix DDR3200 instead, but that doesn't arrive until tomorrow....
If this doesn't solve the problem (ie. Memtest still fails), could the problem be down to a faulty motherboard or even faulty CPU?? Is the new memory likely to solve my problems?
Thanks for your help... I just can't bare the stress any longer

I think you can forget about fauly cpu . Usually it either works or not .
Exception is broken pins , overheating or something like that.
Try the memory in different slots and give it more voltage with manually selection
to compensate for voltage fluctuations or low lines ,ajust it up to 2.8v (they are confirmed by geil to operate from 2.55-2.85) .
Set aggressive timing to "disabled" .
If this does not improve it's operation set it to max frequency 166 in the dram submenu of cell menu.
Memory errors "can" occur with low wattage psu if the voltage to the mainboards
voltage regulators is unstable or low. If +12v is overloaded it typically affects the max output on 3.3v and 5v and makes them unstable .
And as a result memory which is ran from 5v via mobo regulators can get unstable .

Modem problems on 875P Neo

Hi,
I recently upgraded from a P4 1.4 on an ASUS maotherboard to a P4 3Ghz on an 875P Neo. I have an ASUS V8460 Video card and a Creative SBLive! 5.1 with an Intel 56Kbps PCI HaM modem. Other than the modem everything seems to be working fine. My net connection is really pathetic though. I get disconnected every 2 minutes with random errors.
I have a feeling, enabling Hyperthreading is causing this problem.
Has anyone else faced anything of this sort?
Does anyone know of any modem that works with the above settings? I don't want to disable HT, 'coz it really makes a difference while video editing.
Any help will be appreciated

I heared of HT bothering 56K modems.
You can try another PCI slot and updating drivers befor seeing about HT.

875P Neo-FISR vs. 865PE Neo2-V

Hi, I appreciate any help with this question. I own 2 different MIS motherboards currently and would like to know which would be the better one to use for my system build.
875P Neo-FISR
or
865PE Neo2-V
Specs:
Pentium4 3.2ghz socket 478
2 sticks of PC3200 512mb DDR memory ( kingston Hyperx)
MSI geforce 6600 agp
500watt psu ( XG )
Does it matter what board I use?
Thanks!

875P chipset supports ECC RAM and 865PE/P chipset doesn't.
875P FISR is the 2nd Rev from the predecessor 875P FIS2R and has better support for Prescott CPUs. 865PE Neo2-V is a cutdown version of the predecessor 865PE Neo2 S/LS/FIS2R/PLS/P and has only 2 RAM slots.
To put the 2 for comparsion, I would choose the 875P Neo FISR but if you are not comparing the cutdown version of the 865PE chipset, I would still favour the 865PE chipset.

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