P35 Platinum rebooting problem

Hello,
I have just registered at MSI Forums, as i have quite strange problem with my PC and i need help :azn:
My specs:
Motherboard : MSI P35 Platinum, bios ver1.9
CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 coolde with Thermalright Ultra 120a + Zalman 120mm fan
Memory: Mushkin XP2-6400 2 GB CL4-4-3-10
VGA : Inno3D 8800gts 512 with Accelero s2 rev2 + 2 Silverstone 90mm fans
HDD : Seagate 160GB SATA
Optical : Liteon DVDRW LDW-851S
PSU : Tagan TG430-U22 (i am running it at 'combined rails' mode, which has 28A rating for the 12v rail-information from the sticker)
I also have 3 120mm fans mounted in case
I have Windows XP SP2 installed
I took attempt to overclock my cpu and memory, and i managed to get 3.4ghz for cpu and 972mhz for memory (486FSB ; CPU Multipliter 7 ; RAM timings 5,5,5,15 ; RAM voltage 2,0v ; CPU voltage 1.4125v ; VTT FSB voltage AUTO ; NB voltage 1.45v ; SB I/O power 1.8v ; SB core power 1.15v), i am able to run Orthos Blend test (stressing cpu and memory) for about 8 hours (so it's pretty stable I think)
So, let's get to the point:
I am able to run my PC flawlessly all day long, but when i try to turn it on next day, it keeps rebooting itself for few minutes (it turns for about 10 seconds but the screen stays black, then it turns off and turns on again.....LEDS keep showing red/red/green/red indicating memory problem) and finally boots with 'overclocking failed' information.............i get to the bios, change ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, save settings (or not save..it doesn't matter at all) and then it boots and loads Windows no problem.......... what the heck is wrong?? Is it memory problem? Or maybe PSU? (I was using it in my previous PC)
Any suggestions ? :azn:
Thanks in advance

Avoid that one, instead go for:
Quote from: Frankenputer on 20-September-08, 02:03:41
I would recommend the Corsair VX550 or TX650.
or 750TX

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Hi guys, hope you can help me.
First things first, my system is as follows -
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Quote from: Darkling on 16-September-07, 15:19:29
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What is the stock memory voltage? It should be listed on the sticks. Make sure you set this voltage in the BIOS.
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This is very strange.......
Just bare with me as I try to explain.
I just orderd a new system to build from scratch and all seemed to go ok.
I have:
Motherboard: K8N Neo Platinum
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 - 2800+
VIDEO: ATI Radeon 9600XT - 128 MB
RAM: 1GB DDR PC2700 CL2.5 - SAMSUNG - 1 Stick
SOUND: I also have an old PCI sound card in there.
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OK - I pulled out the 9600XT and put in a 9000 saphire radeon card with the same effects.....
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second - I put the memory in and left the video card out only and got a signle long beep.. then no additional beeps after that but of course no video...
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ok so this motherboard has been running for around 3 months with no problems. Motherboard boots up it POSTS and then freezes when the windows logo comes up. Now I have tried and installed a fresh install of xp and the same problems occurs. Only way i can get to windows is that after it freezes i shut it down by pressing the power button and then it restarts and would now go to windows.
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P35 Platinum Problem

Update:
Have not got standard memory yet so tried other options...
Replaced floppy drive with one that I verified was working, but no change so floppy drive is ok. Another possibility ruled out.
Reseated memory, floppy cable, graphics card multiple times, no result.
Changed FSB jumper to 333 setting, no result. Changes back to 200, result!!! Booted to bios config multiple times. Some times I got 4 red leds though, in which case the system stopped and rebooted. Then booted to bios again. I decided to try again to reflash the bios to 1.1 using ctrl-home keys. This time it worked. Verified bios is now v1.1.
Started getting cmos errors though. The bios gave me the option to reset to default values, when booting. I did this, and rebooted. The system stopped working again then, showing two green lights, two red. :(
I reset the FSB jumpers to 333, turn system on/off, switched back to 200. Again, I found I could now boot to bios again.
This is as far as I have got. Havenot been able to boot to OS yet. Any advice appreciated.
Starting to think this is not just a bios issue.... :(
-Laurence
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MSI P35 Platinum, P35, Socket-775, DDR2
Crucial DDR2 BallistiX PC8500 2048MB CL5
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
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Update:
Before my last post, I had previously flashed the bios back to the original bios which originally worked for me (1.1, the version which came with the machine, got it from the web site), but I ended up with the same problems. Last thing I did that night, was flash the bios to 1.4b... bios, but seeming same problems reproduced.
I was ready to return the motherboard on Saturday but curiosity got to me so I decided to follow Bosskillers advice and try out some other memory. Not that I doubted Bosskiller but this meant I had to bite the bullet and go buy some vanilla memory. Another 128 euros less in my pocket, after replacing my PSU also
Before installing the memory, i decided to try to again boot the PC (using bios 1.4b... beta) with the high perf memory. Didn't work the first couple of times, then it did! OS booted even, first time in a week. Occasionally (30% of boots) I got the four red lights followed on the next boot by an error messages highlighted in red saying the previous overclocking settings prevented the machine from booting, did I want to keep current settings or reset them. In each case, I kept the setting and simply rebooted.
I then noticed I had not switch the FSB jumper to the 266 setting. Not sure if this matters, as I though bios automatically detects / sets the correct FSB setting in any case. This seemed to improve matters a little.
I then changed the memory, and things improved further. I am now able to boot most of the time, only seeing the 4 red lights when I cold boot the machine after it has not been used for a while (this happens 100% of the time). While running, it seems stable. If i do mess about a little, and constantly hit the reset or main power switch on/off every 10 secs, I will occasionally see the four red lights, or 1G1R2G so I avoid this
Will run the memtest tools you suggested. I am not convinced the high perf memory is bad yet. Will try out some more tests on it at a later date though. The cold boot issue sort of suggests a PSU issue to me but I am unsure. In any case, my Antec power PSU is not in yet , but will install when I get it and hope it resolves the residual issues.
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Hello everyone.
I'm having a very similar problem to inucubuS'. The difference is that I've never overclocked my machine in any way, and it has been running stable for the past year or so with the same specs.
Around 3 months ago it started (very rarely) to hang on the "fake boot" with all fans running at max speed and not POSTing. The solution to each of those cases would be the CMOS clearing and loading of optimized values. After each episode it would run smoothly for many days until it happened again.
Then 3 days ago it started to hang on the fake boot for minutes, sometimes turning on and off for random periods of time, and clearing the CMOS would not solve it. During that time MoBo would show 4 red lights which made me wonder if it was a CPU issue. Strangely enough, each of these episodes were solved by simply letting it turn on/off by itself until it finally started to POST. Now I'm trying to leave my computer turned on at all times, only rebooting by OS.
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The modules are Corsair's TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX, two 1GB sticks set in dual mode according to the P35's manual displacement. Their settings in BIOS are left as the default. I can't remember the voltage right now, but it was set as it was from optimal values, grayed out.
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Please post your full system specs and PSU specs amps.
Moan Guide
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Hi, I'm new in the forum.
I have bought a p35 platinum about three weeks ago, it is fantastic and I like it very much, but I have some problems with it.
If I list them, could you help me??
My complete configuration is:
mb: msi p35 platinum;
processor: Q6600 (without O.C.);
ram 4x1gb team elite ram 800mhz;
video: ati 2600xt 512mb gddr3;
. At first, the motherload's bios colour was black, but suddenly it became classic blue. Now it's blue yet. Is it normal?
. When I turn on the Pc it a emits "beep"(that should be a sign of bad operation of the AMI bios).
. The bios read 3.25gb of ram, but I've installed 4gb.
. dual core center inform me that the CPU fan is 0, while, it goes on spinning. (it happens often)
. A lot of programs, like Sandra or Everest 2007, read the chipset ICH9 instead of ICH9R.
. Live Update crash when it looks for bios versions.
. After installing the bios 1.3 the start is more slowly, besides there is a screened where I can read the marvel component. unfortunately I can read just this, then I will try to do a screen.
PS:
Despite of I had this problems, I go on loving my magic motherload. I hope you will help me, because I don't know what to do.
My O.s. is Windows vista Ultimate.

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3. My O.S. is 32 bit vista ultimate and my O.S. too read 3,2gb of ram but, also when the O.S wasn't istalled on my PC, my platinum p35 read anyway 3,5gb that could be utilized and 4gb installed.
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I just lost that 1000 words post from power outage, so bear with me if I'm more direct to the point.
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P35 Platinum BIOS 1.9B1 (Vcore:1.375V, VTT: 1.30V, NB:1.550V, SB: 1.8V) 417MHz FSB x 8 = 3336MHz
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I try to push those memory sticks to 1000MHz. To do this, 2 ways I know: up FSB to 500MHz with 1:1 ratio or change ratio to 5:6 + up FSB to 417MHz. I tried both and here are the results:
Test the CPU OC = FSB: 417MHz x 8 = 3336MHz & RAM 834MHz (1:1) = 24 hours prime95 stable (small FFT)
Test the memory = FSB: 417MHz x 7 = 2919MHz & RAM 1000MHz ratio 1:1.2 = 24 hours memtest86+ v2.01 AND 24 hours prime95 stable (blend test)
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I tried upping NB to 1.6V (Afraid to fry it), tried upping VTT FSB (What does that do...) to 1.4V-1.45V : no luck.
I know that below 1.55V my 8GB setup is unstable (crashed prime blend test at 18 hours...)
The other option is now trying with higher FSB. All those tests were done with 1.9B1 BIOS. At 500MHz FSB, the board wouldn't even POST. I then flashed the BIOS to 1.9B2 with success! I can now POST and boot with 500MHz FSB! I cannot load windows though which leaves me short of my goal. I tried some more conservative speed (470MHz FSB) and succeeded in loading Vista. Had a hard time thought, at that FSB speed, Vista was crawling and CPU and memory benches in Everest were about 50% lower than last stable benches. Something was wrong.
I was then wondering ways to boot Vista with 500MHz stable or make my two stable overclocks work together...
I read a post from someone stating that MSI told him to use performance BIOS P09 because OCing 8GB was easier with that BIOS. I did so. I could not boot in Vista (without OC, at default settings) because of nvidia driver (was able to boot in safe mode). I also read in that thread that BIOS P09 had problems with G92 videocards... I wish I could read German (or danish, not sure) because (save the thread I mentioned) the only forums talking about performance BIOS are German MSI forums...
I also read that BIOS after 1.3 are not good for OCing because of bad voltage regulation. I would flash back to 1.3
but the Q6600 Kentsfield is not supported before 1.6.
So I'm asking help at the same time from this board and User mod BIOS, was not sure to which board my thread would belong.
Thank you for you suggestions and/or advices concerning performance BIOS.
Jerome
P.S. Oh yeah! I also set my hardware OC settings jumpers to 333MHz which supposedly increase FSB stability... phew... I thought I would be direct to the point....
Edited:corrected typos

Quote from: solidgear on 19-January-08, 08:26:06
oops, u should have bought better memory, teach u for messing with manufacturers specs. No sympathy here
Well, it seems that the CS4 settings where exactly the rated speed for the GEIL Ultra Dual Channel modules, it's just that the (100% safe) pre-programmed SPD speeds are slower than the official rated timings. GEIL tells about that with all of their newer products, so timings I entered where not illegal for the modules.

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Well, yesterday I bought some PC parts and did an upgrade but I'm facing a lot of problems....random re-starts and hangups about every 45min !!!
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