Temps stay at 57☌ or below no matter how hard I'm pushing the system. I also found out that I could reduce the CPU voltage slightly while still maintaining stablity. As a bonus, I'm able to overclock the GPU (894 MHz instead of the stock 800 MHz). Anyway, to make a long story short, I upped the north bridge voltage from 1.2875 to 1.3000, and also upped the GPU voltage from 1.20 to 1.25. The machine has basically been stable except when doing anything which stresses the GPU (one of my train sims pegs the GPU at 100% nearly all the time). What are the thoughts around here on using Prime95 and IntelBurnTest for stability testing? I've recently used both to uncover some stability issues on my new PC. I'm sure though if my sample size was larger I would have encountered bad RAM by now. Maybe I've just been exceeding lucky, or perhaps it's because I've taken certain precautions when dealing with anything electronic. Come to think of it, I haven't had a hard drive fail on me yet, either. Does anybody have any idea why this program is creating aproblem?Ĭlick to expand.For what it's worth, I've yet to see a bad stick of RAM in the 15 years I've been playing with PCs. This is the only program that has caused my desktop to freeze since it was built in April 2009. Neither laptop had the latest version when I checked, and each older version of the program worked fine.
When the problem started on the desktop, I checked my two Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit laptops, installed the latest version and have had no problem with it. I'll restart and it will open once, and then fail at my next attempt. The program may open once after the installation, but then it freezes the next time. The dialog box only appears in Safe Mode and the program always opens properly after the box appears, regardless of whether I display the contents or not.
I attached the screen capture of the box to this post. I was able to make the latest version work on the desktop in Safe Mode with Networking, only after a dialog box showing an error log file appeared. A restart is not required after an install. When a version failed, I uninstalled it from Control Panel's Programs and Features applet, deleted the single reference I found in the registry and installed a different version. I installed the last three versions of the program with the same result. By "freeze", I mean the mouse pointer freezes, the keyboard freezes and I have to "hold instead of tap" the Reset button on the front of my case to do a Restart.
It has suddenly caused my Windows Ultimate 32 bit desktop pc to freeze almost every time I open it. I'm having a problem that has literally "appeared from nowhere", regarding CPUID's CPU-Z program.