Freezing up

well doesnt windows 7 period already have trim enabled for ssd's? and im going to get a rma from gskill for the damned thing.. lol

 

the m$ default driver doesn't have trim but you still should not experience lockups, especially USB bsod's. Good to hear though all is good now................

 

I think it might be a driver.. I installed all the windows updates and the video driver, and the game worked perfectly. But when i installed the rest of the p79 drivers.. then it froze again.

 

what drivers ared you installing? (a list of specific drivers please)

Edit; the only driver I use from gateway, actually two:
1.) Web Cam
2,) Reatek sound card (Has Stereo mix too)

Edit 2; Other than stock windows loaded drivers that I can think of:
1.) Intel IRST (From Intels support)
2.) Intel 5300 (From Intels support)
3.) nVidia 270.61 (From nVidia)
4.) Intel chipset (From Intels support)

 

I use them all except for the audio context one...
that might be why.

 

yes wrong sound card. P78 was conexant ours seemss to be realtek

 

yup. we have both on the p79 site, but only the realtek works.

 

hopefully it all works now.............

 

I hope man... it's been two fridgin weeks!!!!!

 

personally this is whay I am a minimallist. I run windows loaded drivers except when ready for enhancements. Since these systems did not come with Windows7 I primarily use M$ drivers. We have no choice on the Web cam drivers. The Realtek drivers are a verified good version and include stereo mix so they stay too.

The exceptions again being;

1.) Intel IRST to get trim running for the SSD
2.) Intel 5300 drivers from Intel for better compatibility
3.) Intel PM45 chipset from Intel, again for compatability
4.) Nvidia's most recent drivers for game compatability.

 

well hopefully this does it because im tired of not being able to play games.

 

I had noticed in changing the Mainboard that the original Conexant drivers were replaced by MS default drivers on reboot. This is how I knew the sound card was different. Since there is only one other used sound card it was easy to figure out.

I didn't realize you were forcing drivers that do not belong, IE the sound card. You have a new board and since it is a mixture of components you can never be really sure 100%. so you have to carefully experiment.

Now my media bar works so those default drivers are apparently ok..............

Edit; everything is slightly to largely different. You can now quad with the chipset, you no longer need legacy firewire drivers or a bios update to make them compatible. The board at minimum has different, more updated, revisions on it. For this reason you have to treat this as an entirely different system.............

 

well i downloaded everything you had, and im installing the game now, so in a couple minutes i guess it'll be the moment of truth.

 

you should do the fresh install then add a game. try it out and then once stablitity has been proven add a driver at a time and test it out again each time if this doesn't work.

I suggest this as you said from first default install before adding any of your/P79 drivers etc. it is 100% stable................

 

well I just did a fresh install.
did the windows updates.
installed the 270.61 driver for nvidia.
installed the intel drivers you said you had.
I didnt even touch the gateway drivers yet, and the game still froze, almost instantly.

edit; now when i start up.. it stays on the "Starting Windows" screen for atleast 4 times longer then usual now...-.-..

 

you should first come from a fresh install, you had said it was 100% stable but be sure first, use Dirt2 demo as we know that works here. Once you are then one driver at a time.

A possible order to see what may be up is install each and fully test afterwards each individual driver for stability.

1.) Nvidia drivers
2.) Intel chipset drivers
3.) if ssd IRST drivers
4.) AGN 5100 drives
5.) Gateway Web Cam
6.) realtek drivers

 

Alright.. well im going to download parted magic and use its erase tool to completely give these drives a full and ober wipe down. then im going to install the drivers one by one. But i did notice i played a full round on my game, then i simply plugged in my razer Megalodon headset and it froze.. so yeah.. we'll see tomorrow i suppose.

 

without the new drivers did the headset work?

 

I didnt try it. What intel chipset driver did you use?

 

I just installed the most recent for pm45, does the mose cause a lockup as well?............

 

so far the mouse has been plugged in and nothing yet. If need be, ill just buy all new gaming gear. sadly...

 

does the 3dmark06 work for you?

 

no issues here with 3DMark06.............

Edit which headset do you have? I ask as if you have the Megladon they recomend an external powered port, I think the power demand is too high..............

 

Yeah.. i do have that one, and i just ran 3dmark06 after a fresh install with all windows updates and the nvidia driver installed. no problem. then I plugged the Razer Mamba mouse in... and still no issues.. When i get home from work ill run a few more tests. but so far so good, knock on some wood.. lol.

 

Ok.. I installed all of the drivers you have except for the web cam thing.. I never use that so yeah. And 3dmark06... whcih used to freeze.. was good to go. Twice I ran it with each driver.. and it worked like a champ. Now im downloading the game before school and checking it out a bit.

edit. When I was starting the game, and installing ccleaner.. it froze on me. Ill have to check it when I get home, but thats the only time it froze, and i did run 3dmark06 each and every time i installed a driver. Im hoping it works.. but with my luck im screwed....

edit; Well it keeps freezing still.. so im done.. im getting a new laptop. Thanks for all your help man, I appreciate it.

 

Would the GPU's sauder coming loose possibly be the cause of the freezing?

 

If it were the Solder Issue you would freeze permanently. Essentially they might get a freeze then never be able to boot again. You could just have a defective main board. I just do not have your external hardware to say it is your system and not a generic issue such as drivers.

So with stock drivers is all ok now, except the headset?

 

Nope.. started to freeze on me again.. and thats without the headset...

 

do you have a standard mouse somewhere to try it out with?

 

This is without the mouse even hooked up man.. sadly...

 

I would ask if powermizer is off but that shouldn't matter, at least it doesn't here. I used the stock M$ drivers for a while with no issue as well before going to the Realtek drivers.

at this point I would contact the vendor about an rma of the main board. it shouldn't without any other devices just lock up..............

Edit; you have a PM, try resetting the DST table................

 

well i got it from ebay, and the vendor offers a 7 day exchange.. that was 2 weeks ago i got it. I figured at first it was something i did so i didnt bother contacting them.. like the moron i am.. lol

 

sorry, didn't realize you had such a short window. for future whenever that happens contact the vendor and let them know you have an imediate issue, then provide them the option of RMA before or suggest you are willing to trouble shoot it but would need an extension to the RMA period.

Try the DST table reset, I have seen that work before. Again slim chance but one worth taking. note if the DST table resets works out as reassigning resources it will boot reinstalling alot of hardware,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

dude.. the game froze... but then it started going agian... after i tried the turn it on and off before the bios...

 

did hardware reinstall on the first boot?

Edit; my IRQ table................

 

I do not have that selection on here.. nore do I have a memory thing, like you do.

 

in device manager, go to VIEW and resources by type, then open up IRQ and scroll............

 

there it is

the mass storage thing hasnt been working either for some reason..

Ugh............... nevermind... it just froze on me.... again..............

 

did you install the O2 Micro drivers? Mine then steers the O2 micro to IRQ (22)

 

im done.. this thing is just too messed up.. imma just get the asus ive been looking at and drop this int he grand canyon..-.-..

 

LOL, I remeber with my P78 I had a lock up issue with a sd card in with the wrong drivers, do you have a SD card in the slot? also install O2 micro drivers, mine are version 2.1.1.36

Edit; Tried a newer O2 driver couldn't even reboot, locked up. So yes I would say a proper driver here is a must have................

Edit 2; Gateways 3.31 listed driver fo P78 seems to work but for x64 it seems to keep the older version...........

 

Im sending the motherboard back, they issued me a RMA. So im going to do that.

 

good to hear, I tried changing the O2 micro divers and it froze on boot up here. sorry we could not get P79xx goodness going for you..............

Edit; also be sure to leave him good feedback too, he is definately doing you right giving that RMA.....

 

i already left good feedback. I got the rma for an exchange not refound.. doooo the p79 goodness will be on soon. ill just use the p78 board until then.

 

Ah, well good to hear you had not totally given up yet. I can tell you to be sure the prope O2 Micro drivers are there or they will lock up the system. It is rtying to find a drive that is not there and the system does think of it as a usb drive...................

 

Well, tomorrow ill send the board off and hope one that actually works comes back. And i do know it was the board because im on the old one and everything is perfect....i did notice that this gpu runs at about 60 degrees more than the 260n gtx..

 

60c more, ouch. What temp are you at now?

 

the 9800m gts idles at like 162 F, and the 260m gtx idles at 100 F

 

nVidia with 7xxxm to 9xxxm placed out a blanket recommendation to slow the progression of "Bump" material degradation. This showed in nVidia bios 9.20.00 and above by allowing the GPU temp to get quite high beforre cooling kicked in and kept the temps up theredurring idle.

The 260m was released well after the bump material fix so no such provision for the temps was made. Mos P78xx's were made after the fix but I guess they still fall into the prevention scheme................

 

im on my moms laptop because my p78 motherboard wont even let me open a single application............................i cannot wait until i get the new board... this is fkin ... i do not want to have to get a new laptop....-.-