Lock ups in BIOS

Hi I'm using the 7.8 BIOS and accessing the "PC Health" Page in the BIOS locks my system. This happened before and a later BIOS cured it but it's back again (sorry for the vagueness can't remember exactly when). Has anyone else had this issue?
Bugger forgot to update SIG I have a Twinx1024 4000 mem kit @ 200FSb in there aswell

Cheers for the reply Wonkaboy
my first post illustrates the hazards of of inputting your specs into your sig, they will always prove wrong after about a week. I had two drives but I got fed up with the cabling so I bought a combo instead. the cpu heat thing is a good idea though, just replaced the cpu so I might take the heatsink off and recheck all the gunk and that.
oh yeah the cpu fan is direct to the psu

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My specs:
Q6600 stock speed
Kingston HyperX pc8500 2x 1gb. I manually set it to it's rated timings, voltage and frequency. I have also tried different ram, from Exceleram and it makes no difference.
2x Asus EN8800GT 512mb cards (tried using just one card too, tried switching to a different 8800gt card from sparkle too, no change.)
HDD: Have tried several hard drives, pata and sata from probably all the manufacturers, i dont see why i need to post their specs since they problem persists nomatter what hdd i use.
Windows XP SP3 proffessional.
nothing else is in the system, i removed every piece of hardware, like sound card, optical drive, etc. to isolate the problem.
Power supply: Thermaltake ToughPower 700W
BIOS Version: the beta bios posted on this forum that supposedly fixes the video corruption bug (it doesnt). Also tried 1.0 and 1.1
The problem: random lock-ups. Sometimes it doesnt happen for 2 days and then BAM! Its happening every 15 minutes now. It might stop happening for another 12 hours and start locking up again. It only ever happens when im working in 2d applications like browsing, using messenger or IRC, watching videos on youtube or in a media player, or just moving files around or anything mundane like that. it once happened when i wasnt touching the keyboard or mouse at all, i was waiting for some files to finish copying over LAN. I also get the famous video corruption but it is EXTREMELY rare, like once a month. It crashed the last time the video corruption appeared, once i tried to click the player to pause, the system crashed. The system will never lock up while playing games, i play medieval II total war for days without any problems. The store i bought the p7n from tested it for me and they said it worked fine, but they used an ATI card so that may be a clue? Then again, they are really incompetent and didnt run the right set of tests, and ignored what i had told them about the nature of the crashes.
Detailed description of the events: System freezes, first everything except the mouse is frozen but if i try to click with the mouse, it freezes too and the screen flashes a black screen every few seconds. it never recovers and i have to shut it down by holding the power button for several seconds. some of the 2d graphics in windows get corrupted with artifacts, and the mouse does get heavily corrupted usually.
What i've tried:
I thought the mobo was defective but it isnt, i got a new mobo from the store and it has the same problem.
Tried working my way through every combination of memory timings, frequencies and voltages that i thought might make a difference but it has no difference on the crashes.
All the hardware works perfectly in my Asus P5N32-E SLI motherboard (i bought this msi mobo for some different reasons that i wont go into here), so theres nothing wrong with any of my components.
The only item i've not had the oportunity to switch with a different one is the power supply, but again, it works perfectly with all other motherboards that i've tried.
Is this possibly related to the video corruption bug? Does anyone have any idea when the next bios release is due? Please help, it sucks to buy an expensive motherboard that just doesnt work. i'll have to buy a 3rd sli mobo if I cant fix this.
PS: Is it not possible to regulate fan speed for sysfans connected to the mobo's fan connectors? My asus mobo had great fan speed controls in the bios, if this one doesnt have any such options, i call that ridiculous.

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BSOD / Lock-ups with new Q9550 in P965 Platinum

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E6700 CPU, recently upgraded to Q9550
Zalman Cu heat sink + fan.
4GB Corsair 6400 C4 (4-4-4-12 800 MHz)
MSI 8800 GTX graphics
Auzentech Meridian sound
2 x 36GB Raptors RAID 0 (System)
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Hi all,
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I have switched back to my trusty E6700 chip and the system is then as solid as a rock. I see 3 possibilities here:
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3. I need to mod the clocking on my rig to support the Q9550. If so, can anyone advise on what I should do?
I doubt the problem is caused by an OS factor as I ran some tested in an XP pre-boot environmet and still got the lock-ups.
What should I do? i don't really want to ebay the chip at say a £50 loss if i can help it.
Many thanks in advance.

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I have no idea which stepping type mine is as the product numbers for the Q9550 chips are all the same (EU80569PJ073N or BX80569Q9550) regardless of whether it is a C0, C1 or E0 stepping.
No, the OEM Order Code is different, and the sSpec Number also.
Have a look at these links
Q9550=SLAWQ=C1--> http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAWQ
Q9550=SLB8V=E0 --> http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB8V

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I'm using K9N2-SLI plat with Bios 3.5, AMD64 X2 6400+ Black Ed., 4GB ram (2x2GB Cas 4-4-4-12 T2 matched set), XFX 8800GTS(92) 512, Corsair TX650, Artic Cooler Freezer64 CPU H/S running Vista64 Home Premium Sp2. I'm having random lock-ups during 3D games. Sometimes it locks up after 30 mins in game or sometimes it locks up after days of playing, I can't get it to reproduce the lock up at will. I have read alot of post about this motherboard and it seems it comes down to power supply. I had a New Apevia Beast 2 rail system but after reading the posts I returned it for new Corsair TX650. At full load CPU cores never go above 47c and Idles around 30-31. Ran mem test over night with no errors. Did notice in Mem Test it stated Ram was set at Cas 4-5-5-18 T2. I went to BIOS and set the mem for Volt 2.0 Cas 4-4-4-12 T2. This did reduce the lock-ups to the point I thought I had it fixed. Than today I locked up twice. When it locks up computer becomes unresponsive last sound repeats for few seconds and the only way to resume is to press restart button. I have tried with Cool n'quite on and off, DOT is never been on. Computer runs fine in 2d operations. It's only when I go into 3d games. Video Card has been tested in other machine and is working fine. My game sometime requires me to stay logged in over night to Sell goods. Every morning this last week computer has froze sometime during the night. Crysis plays fine for hours, It seems it happens in not so demanding games, Aion, Knight Online and Wow. All power plugs are plugged, fresh install of Vista, Newest drivers from web site, Bios update via the Forum USB key app. Would really like a reliable computer. What am I missing? Let me know if you need any other info.

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The memory report from CPU-Z:
DIMM #            1
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   JEDEC #2      4.0-4-4-12-16 @ 266 MHz
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   EPP profile #2 (full)   4.0-4-4-11-20-2T @ 400 MHz (2.000 Volts)
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Southbridge      NVIDIA nForce 740a SLI MCP rev. A2
Graphic Interface      PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width      x16
PCI-E Max Link Width   x16
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Memory Size      4096 MBytes
Channels         Dual
Memory Frequency        400.0 MHz (CPU/7)
CAS# latency (CL)        4.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD)   4
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 4
Cycle Time (tRAS)        12
Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 24
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On to more serious issues.. .
I am experiencing system lock-ups on the brand spanking new computer I just buildt.(Yeah, yeah.. . Anti-static and all other thinkable precautions were taken.. .)
Needless to say it's annoying the hell out of me. I can't work and I can't play with a situation like this.. .
The system just hangs and the only solution is to press the reset button.
This usually happens in games or when scrolling a window. Less frequently it also happens when doing nothing. It only seems like it's getting worse - more frequent that is.
Are there any known issues with TwinMos RAM and nForce2?
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The BIOS of the MB has not been flashed by me - as out-of-the-box.
Nvidia drivers version 5.10.
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Edit: I have a sneaking suspicion that it gets worse until I power off/on - after that it will take a longer time for the error to return. I haven't verified this empirically, but I have a hunch.. .
I really hope there's someone with helpful insight to this problem out there!
Thank you for your time.

Woops. Seems like I don't have access rights to the last link.
It seems like downflashing to B30 is the only way to go for me as I'm having *major* stability issues, even with no overclocking.
Heck - I even had to reset and reboot the machine when trying to write this post just now!
I must say I've never experienced such outrageous instability with any of my other MSI MBs before.. . Not from any other make for that matter. This is just incredible.
I'll flash it tomorrow (if I can find a damned floppy somewhere). For now I really have to work.
Fingers crossed!
Thanks again for great input!

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I've reinstalled the OS 3 times, i have all the latest drivers.
I've ran memtest several times and the vista memory diag tool with no errors, and on individual sticks. i have stress tested my CPU and GPU with no errors many times.
it sometimes freezes 5 mins after booting up, when surfing the web, when on screen-save,r when typing in word and when playing games, sometimes it will be fine for hours then suddenly just freeze up.
I see nothing in the Event Viewer.
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Intel e8400 @ 3.00GHz (stock)
XFX 9800 GTX Black Edition
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Antec Quattro 1000W SLI PSU
Trust 5.1 Sound Card.
Hitatchi SATA HDD
Pioneer SATA DVD/RW
Zalman 9700NT CPU cooler.
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Quote from: cliffo88 on 23-September-08, 01:56:38
I updated the BIOS using MSI live update, but it was freezing before the update aswell.
I cant find any pattern to the freez-ups it seems entirely random.
YIKES
Whatever you do, never attempt to update the BIOS of a system that is freezing randomly, especially via MSI Live Update. In fact, you'd be well advised to avoid MSI Live Update entirely.
The most commonly suggested method for flashing BIOS is via USB disk method and only after booting to DOS, not Windows. Even in these conditions, if there are hardware issues that are still preventing the system from running stable (e.g. failing PSU, excessive heat, etc.), you should not attempt to flash the BIOS.
Attempting a BIOS flash under any of these conditions is risking permanent and irreparable damage to your motherboard.
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P45 Neo3-FR using 1.3 BIOS
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Cosair HX520W PSU
Antec Nine Hundred case
2x SATA HDD
1x DVDRW
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I'm having random freezing/lock ups in Windows. It can happen anywhere between 1 minute to 5+ hours. It's completely random, doesn't matter what I'm doing.
I have the latest chipset and nVidia drivers.
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I've cleared the CMOS and loaded optimized defaults
I've tried both IDE and AHCI
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Update: I switched to BIOS 1.2 and so far everything seems OK, though I lost the option to change the command rate on the RAM. I'll post back in a couple of days or if it happens to lock up again.

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2x1GB GSkill 1066Mhz RAM
Reduce memory clock speed to 800 MHz in BIOS, set Memory voltage to 1.9-1.95V and retest.

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The new build has been running reasonably well, and I've done no major optimizing so far, and no overclocking (yet). However, I've been having infrequent and seemingly random system lock-ups that would appear to be hardware related.
Last night was about the fourth or fifth of these. I had been working on and off throughout the day on a 4-camera multicamera project, and having no issues at all. This was a TOTALLY different multicam experience than I've had with CS4, where MC was hardly usable. Anyway, I was going to make my last few edits of the night when the system locked up--I had just started playing back a sequence when it happened. No hard drive activity, no keyboard/mouse interaction, no bluescreen--the audio that had started playback, however, got caught in a short loop and made an annoying racket. The only way to return to normal was to hard reboot with the power button depressed. No error or fault is logged in the Windows event logs, beyond the reboot which is recorded as something like, "Your system restarted, probably due to you turning it off... don't do that." The actually fault that perpetuates such a drastic action is not recorded. My initial thoughts were that the RAM has a bad chip somewhere, so I've run a memory test for over 8 hours now, and had 0 errors reported. There were no lock-ups, either--the system has been just humming along that whole time. This obviously does not rule out the RAM, but doesn't make it easy to say it's the problem, either. The only "tweak" I've made to the system is the RAM, and that's by setting the DRAM frequency to 1600MHz; nothing else has been altered in the BIOS.
The last two lock-ups occured in one day, when I was attempting to export to an H.264 file, through the AME queue, with hardware MPE enabled. At different points in the export, the system locked, with similar results as above. After the second lock-up, I disabled GPU acceleration in PPro, and the export completed just fine. Interesting, I thought. However, I'd done other hardware MPE-assisted exports earlier that day and in previous days, with no lock-ups.
As mentioned, I'd encountered at least one other hard freeze, and if I remember correctly, I was in Premiere but not doing anything. I'd walked away from the system for a little while, came back, and it was Living Dead on my return. I hadn't been rendering, importing, playing back, or anything else.
I've been checking my temps with HWmonitor, and there isn't anything out of the ordinary as far as I'm aware. I'm really not stressing the system much, pretty basic and rudimentary edits. The memory test has now done about 600% coverage, and no errors. The bizarre coincidence is that these lock-ups occur when I'm in one of the Adobe programs--but I've never seen software cause a lock-up such as this before.
So... where do I go from here? The lock-ups seem to completely happen at random, with no particular instigation. Is there some sort of other monitor software I can run in the background that might indicate hardware failures that Windows is not able to catch?
I'm hoping you hardware gurus can shed some light on this bizarre predicament... thanks in advance for your insight.
ADDENDUM:
It would seem to make sense to post my hardware... duh:
ASUS P6X58D
i7-930
OCZ Gold 12GB (6 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 480
COOLER MASTER HAF 932
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro 1000W
Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB (system drive)
HITACHI 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
4x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (running RAID 5 with onboard controller)
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler

Well, I really wanted Jeff's suggestion to be the solution, but alas, troubles remain. And it would appear that something far more sinister is happening than flaky codecs or software.
The good news is that I can now reliably repeat the lock-up, each and every time. The bad news is that the lock-up occurs whenever I attempt an export. I'm trying to get a 75-minute multicamera edit onto a DVD, and the moment the actual encode begins, the system goes into a hard hang. I have a number of audio clips that are being used, and I see "Adobe Premiere Pro is preparing audio for export" or something like that, and then once the video processing begins, it's curtains.
At first, I thought it was something with the hardware MPE--I'm using a GTX 480 with the hack. Editing works well--remarkably well. Encoding is a different issue, altogether, and it doesnt' matter whether I start the export with the Queue button or the Export button. I tried disabling GPU acceleration, and at first, I thought I had solved the mystery--the encode actually began and progressed for about 30 seconds. However, inevitably it would seem, I got the same hard hang.
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Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi... you're my only hope...
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Help with Video camera lock ups on K7N2 delta

hi everyone,
finally got new computer working after formatting and reinstalling windows and the bare minimum of software.
but a small problem arose after drivers from supplied CD Rom installed my Sony DV camera locks up.
i haven't even installed any video editing software yet.
before installing drivers, when i double clicked the camera icon in my computer it gave me access to the camera i.e i could press play on the camera and view it on the computer.
now since the drivers have been installed the message that i get is 'please wait while device initializes'.
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my configuration is
K7N2 delta
AMD XP2000+
crucial 512mb PC2700
Radeon 9200
belkin firewire card
trust V92 modem
any help would be much appreciated as the new computer sole purpose is to video edit.
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