New Hardware, Clean install

[CarlTR6]

Thanks for the update. It is good to know that we were on the right track.

 

[Dave76]

Thanks for letting us know the progress.

Hope they find the solution soon.

Let us know how it's going.

 

[Trinitrotoluene]

Webshops' verdict is out: OCZ3P1333LV6GK is NOT compatible with GA-X58A UD3R 2.0 even though it IS on the QVL! And that's after receiving TWO confirmed broken kits. The third kit was tested on several other motherboards, in which it worked fine.
As for the motherboard, they could not hear any coilwhine, even though the whole setup was tested extensively. But at the same time, they also did not run into any other (extra) problems with it. But quite frankly, the coilwhine is not the biggest problem right now as the memory part turned out... good;

The webshop will swap the OCZ memory for a different kit, they suggested KHX1600C8D3K3/6GX. Which is not on the QVL, but if it has been tested by the shop and found 100% working, it doesn't matter (have contacted them about this, awaiting answer). As second option, I could also go for TR3X6G1600C8 which is on the Corsair compatibility list for this board. This whole deal is very kind of them, because this third kit was not purchased from them, but from OCZ RMA strictly speaking. So they aren't even obliged to take back the OCZ kit and have it swapped for me without extra costs, but they did (will) so anyway! They managed to work out a deal with OCZ, for which both parties deserve and got my thanks.

About the coilwhine again, I will ask the shop for a summary on how they have tried to reproduce it and with which hardware. PSU, RAM, CPU, GPU, voltages, HDDs and whatever. I'd like to know it all. It doesn't feel quite right that they haven't heard anything. Not that I distrust them, but it was so easy to reproduce back at home. Anyway, I bet you guys can hear my sigh of relief from there! Will keep you posted on the rest.



And I have kindly asked OCZ and Gigabyte to retest this kit on this specific board

 

[Dave76]

Thanks for the update.

Glad you're making progress.

Your shop and OCZ are to be commended, sounds like they are doing the right thing.

Let us know how it's going.

 

[CarlTR6]

That is excellent customer service on the part of your shop and OCZ. I am delighted to hear they found the problem. Keep us updated.

 

[Trinitrotoluene]

I'm happy to say that my webshop has finished testing with the Kingston KHX1600C8D3K3/6GX memory on my board. This kit has found to be fully compatible and working and everything will be shipped back to me today.

Seeing is believing though! I'm still in this paranoid state of mind, so it will take a week or so of stable up-time for that to go away

 

[Dave76]

That's good news.

Thanks for letting us know your status.

Let us know how it's running, good or bad.

 

[CarlTR6]

I am surely hoping the shop is right and your problem is fixed. Please let us know.

 

[Trinitrotoluene]

It's been little over a week now without problems. No cold booting problems, no problems during gaming, no problems during long idle times in windows. No BSOD's except for a few minutes ago, when I was defragging my RAID0 array with Defraggler. Though I also defragged the other partition on the array a couple of times, where windows is installed, without problems. The dump file is attached.

atikmdag.sys is involved, perhaps catalyst control center related? But it's interesting that it happened just now and not sooner. Maybe it just blames it because it is always loaded in the background?

Also, when my system was stable for like 5 days, I decided to installed NOD32 again instead of MSE. And like I said, I installed CCC again as well. But I'm not really using it, so I might just throw that away again. Very interested in hearing what you guys think!

Little bugger

 

[Jonathan_King]

You can use NOD32 if you like; I have yet to see a BSOD caused by the 2010 version.

I don't know how Defraggler works; for now, I'd recommend just keeping an eye on it.

Do you have access to another graphics card? How about another motherboard?

...Summary of the dumps:

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Built by: 7600.16617.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100618-1621
Debug session time: Sat Jan 15 03:49:46.463 2011 (UTC - 5:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:47:16.431
Probably caused by : atikmdag.sys ( atikmdag+90817 )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x3B
PROCESS_NAME:  dwm.exe
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x3B_atikmdag+90817
SystemProductName = X58A-UD3R
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[Trinitrotoluene]

I do not have access to another graphics card or motherboard. By asking this, I take it you are not ruling out the possibility of either or both being faulty?

I won't use defraggler now anymore, just to see what happens. How does everything else look in the files I have attached, configuration and driver wise?

Also, elsewhere on this forum I've read about Catalyst 10.12 being a BSOD causer more than before. Do you suspect a connection?

edit to add: was just editing a bunch of youtube videos on-site, closed a whole bunch of tabs afterwards and got the notion that ATI display driver stopped responding but was able to recover. I got this feeling this BSOD has something to do with it, software/driver wise. The system just runs too damn good to still have some hardware issues, if you ask me. But one never knows....

 

[Jonathan_King]

I haven't noticed a strong correlation between CCC and BSODs; I've seen maybe a few, as well as a handful of various other problems, but overall, it's not a terribly risky program. Still, uninstall CCC if you don't need it, and leave only the driver installed.

I don't rule out the possibility of those parts being bad; we just need a bit more time to see of the problem was caused by Defraggler.

 

[Trinitrotoluene]

I just ran a 3 hour Furmark test, related to another topic, no artifacts, no crash, 87 degrees celsius max on the GPU. And to add to that, I haven't yet had any BSOD in games either. Just while running defraggler, related or not. We'll see what happens, but at least Furmark ran well so far!

edit: I'm thinking there are some issues with the display driver, as I've had 2 or so recoveries yesterday while viewing flash movies. Still no trouble during gaming. I'll keep an eye on the 11.01 driver, perhaps try a few old ones like 10.3 or something.
Also, there are actually users around that have weird BSOD's involving atikmdag.sys and recovery errors with 10.12, also on 5870 cards. Whereas previously they didn't have any problems. So, not yet nailed down, but still...
AND having sleep mode on for your monitor, MAY cause trouble as far as I've read. Which I DID have, at the time of defraggling. Actually, screensaver and monitor sleep were both set at 10 minutes if I remember. Time will tell!

 

[Trinitrotoluene]

Hi again Jonathan, just an update here,

My system has been idle all day, but also defragging part of the raid array with defraggler. This time without problems. I'm seriously suspecting AMD drivers to just be causing some trouble this release, as explained above. Thought I'd let you know, will continue to keep an eye on everything.

 

[Trinitrotoluene]

Well, it still runs perfectly fine. Only BSOD's I've seen are during overclocking. So the BSOD's I've had before were definitely AMD's problem.
I managed to find a stable 4Ghz (200x20) really easy. IOH 1.1v, 1.3v for QPI/VTT, 1.26125v for CPU Vcore if I remember correctly (1.232v in CPU-Z during load, due to vDROP/vDROOP options being on, which makes it an even better overclock). Energy saving features enabled, around 70 degrees Celsius max. on the cores during Intel Burn.
My maximum baseclock seems to be around 210Mhz, at 220Mhz the post and bios were super-slomotion

It seems that by putting the IOH on 1.1v, you'd be able to get a higher stable overclock on X58 platforms. Or at least with a lower CPU vCore. I wasn't able to get to 4Ghz stable on this Vcore voltage before, untill I locked the IOH to 1.1v.

Great stuff, thought I'd let you know even though it's slightly off-topic

 

[Dave76]

Thanks for letting us know.
Glad to hear it's running stable.

Nice OC, good work.