Repeated annoying BSODs troubling a beginner

essenbe said:

Sounds great to me. The reason this form is here is for people like you. Don't be concerned. Not everyone knows everything. Anything you would care to know, just ask. That's what we're here for. I always say the only dumb question is the one you don't ask. I, and most people here, were exactly where you are at some point. I don't consider myself an expert, and never will. But, if there is anything I do know, I'm happy to tell you. There are a great number of experts on this forum and we all learn from each other. I have learned more here than I have ever taught. At any rate, I'm happy to help any way I can. And if you need to know something I don't know, I will get someone who does know the answer to help you. Nobody on these forums gets paid for doing this, we all do it to help others. I'm here to help you as much as I am capable, so ask whatever you want, and don't be ashamed to ask anything.

Hi! These are the screenshot from my BIOS. Hopefully they are what you needed.

miksu

essenbe said:

Hold on, the second picture. You have changed it to my BIOS, which I didn't want you to do. Yours should be Offset Mode. offset sign + and offset voltage Auto. In the picture I showed the right side of the arrows states what yours should be. For goodness sakes, don't set yours like mine! You'll be in trouble for sure. Look again, this time I outlined it in a box, but it is the same picture.

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Gosh! Screwing up again. I'll go and change them right away...

essenbe said:

It's no problem Don't be so concerned. We can fix any of that stuff. I'm just surprised it didn't BSOD on you. Later on today, I'll try to reset my bios and post what yours should look like. Mine hasn't been set to default values since the first time it booted.

OK! Looking forward to that.

essenbe said:

Here you go. The only exceptions are, in picture 1, where it says XMP Profile mine reads DDR3-2400 yours should say DDR3-1600 9-9-9-31 (or may say 24). Notice in picture 2 the catagory Dram Timing control, picture 4 is the screen you will get when you click the pointer just to the left of it. The values in the box are your values, make them say the same as shown, don't worry about the rest, just what's inside the box. Everything on the main Extreme Tweaker page not shown should say Auto. There is actually very little you will have to change, just make sure you manually input the Dram Voltage of 1.650. Unless you have problems you are done in bios. This is just setting everything at default values, setting your ram to run at the rated speed, and allowing your CPU frequency and voltage to drop at idle. If you have any questions, please ask.

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THIS IS THE DRAM TIMING CONTROL. It should be set for you, but only worry about what's in the box. 9-9-9-27 (or24) 2T
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OK. This doesn't seem to be too complicated. This time I'll try to be more exact with the values I change. I'll get back when I'm finished or if I've got questions. Thanks again!

miksu

miksu said:

essenbe said:

Here you go. The only exceptions are, in picture 1, where it says XMP Profile mine reads DDR3-2400 yours should say DDR3-1600 9-9-9-31 (or may say 24). Notice in picture 2 the catagory Dram Timing control, picture 4 is the screen you will get when you click the pointer just to the left of it. The values in the box are your values, make them say the same as shown, don't worry about the rest, just what's inside the box. Everything on the main Extreme Tweaker page not shown should say Auto. There is actually very little you will have to change, just make sure you manually input the Dram Voltage of 1.650. Unless you have problems you are done in bios. This is just setting everything at default values, setting your ram to run at the rated speed, and allowing your CPU frequency and voltage to drop at idle. If you have any questions, please ask.

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THIS IS THE DRAM TIMING CONTROL. It should be set for you, but only worry about what's in the box. 9-9-9-27 (or24) 2T
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OK. This doesn't seem to be too complicated. This time I'll try to be more exact with the values I change. I'll get back when I'm finished or if I've got questions. Thanks again!

miksu

Here we go. I've chaged the values in BIOS according your examples. Computer started as normal, so I didn't do any serious damage :). I have just one question: could you explain to me what we just did? Apparently I had bad values here and there which cause problems. Why must RAM run at rated speed? Why do we allow the CPU frequency and voltage to drop?

miksu

essenbe said:

You don't have to run the ram at it's rated speed. But, you paid extra for the speed, so I would assume you wanted that speed, I would. It is also the normal ram speed of the motherboard, you just have to enable it. As far as the CPU frequency and voltage drop. There is a feature of the CPU/ board callsed Intel Speedstep. By default, if you are isling on the desktop, you do not need a lot of speed and the increased voltage that goes along with it. More voltage=more heat also. So, it will run cooler by using that. When you start using the computer and create more activity on the CPU, it will automatically speed up. So, you don't burn excess electricity and create heat when not needed and get the increased speed when it is needed. That is a basic explanation of what we did and why. Very basic. Now, if you don't want to do that, don't. It is your computer and you can run it however you like. If you would rather, put everything back like it was. To me, it makes more logic to do it this way, but not everybody would want it that way. Is it causing you any problems? it shouldn't. It is a basic default set up with everything running at it's rated speed and frequency. That is the way the motherboard and CPU were designed to work. I think a good analogy is if you were sitting in the car waiting for your Wife to come out of the store, you wouldn't sit there with the engine revved up. When She does come out and you get ready to go home and press the accelerator, the engine will rev up because it needs to. If it is causing you problems, let me know. If you just want it the way it was, change it back. If you have more questions feel free to ask. Or, if you don't understand what I just said let me know. Sometimes, I know what I meant, but others don't understand it.

Thanks for the explanation! Now I understand what we did and why. Seeing the BIOS with all these strange numbers, values and terms just made me dizzy. And I want this computer to run like it was meant to run, so doing these adjustments you suggested is something I really want to do. Trying to do them myself would end in a disaster, that's for sure! So thanks again, now we got the BIOS to work like it should. So, if you got some other aces in your sleeve regarding the optimization of this set up I have, I'm all ears:)