Official MSI P7N Diamond (780i) Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread

[aelgen]

Haha. I'm back!

The computer ran prime95 for about 1,5 hours and I thought to myself "hey, it's finally stable!!". Looks can be deceiving. I installed Crysis and I was able to play the first level without problems but then 10-15 minutes later - BANG! The computer reboots. So I waited for Vista (64 bit) to load and when I entered my password and saw the desktop it rebooted again. Same procedure, I logged in to Vista and it rebooted. The third time I could actually use the computer. So I thought that the gfx drivers weren't all that good and downloaded the latest fron Nvidia's web page. Now the computer ran for 10-13~minutes and rebooted.

I've no clue how this happened. All four cores peaked at 51 C and the motherboard was 50~ish as well. So no over heating I think. The GFX card and RAM modules were pretty cool also.

I'm guessing that the lates bios isn't that stable at all. Haha.

I'll try with the "official" 1,1 bios instead. If that doesn't work I'm going to bed.. for a week.

edit: Should I clear cmos after flashing, and then taking the "default values"? Or would that fix itself?!

[Fiskbit]

aelgen: Those symptoms sound remarkably familiar to me (no issues running Prime95, but random reboots during casual computer use and even immediately after entering Windows). You haven't answered my question, so I wonder if perhaps you missed it: are you running any SATA optical drives or perhaps RAID? Additionally, did you set Windows to not automatically restart upon system failure?

I'm really hoping you answer yes to the former and no to the latter, since then the solution could be really easy. You mention Vista64, though, so I'm not sure if it would work for you, but it's possible.

Leeroy and loonym: I'm going to hold off on RMA'ing my PSU until after I do some more testing. I was reading up on PSU troubleshooting when it hit me that it could be my power strip. I'm currently forced to use power strips because there are no outlets close enough to my computer area. I may have had my computer plugged into a faulty power strip socket. I recall that I may have had some intermittent trouble with the same socket that the computer was plugged into when I was using the strip in my dorm way back when, but it was minor trouble and only happened once or twice, so it didn't come to mind. Why it would have waited a week to start acting up like this is beyond me, but I've got the computer connected to another socket right now and played Crysis for a while without any issue. The stuff I've seen would definitely be consistent (and more sensible) with a faulty socket.

[aelgen]

aelgen: Those symptoms sound remarkably familiar to me (no issues running Prime95, but random reboots during casual computer use and even immediately after entering Windows). You haven't answered my question, so I wonder if perhaps you missed it: are you running any SATA optical drives or perhaps RAID? Additionally, did you set Windows to not automatically restart upon system failure?

I'm really hoping you answer yes to the former and no to the latter, since then the solution could be really easy. You mention Vista64, though, so I'm not sure if it would work for you, but it's possible.

Sorry, must have missed that you asked me.
Well. I do not use SATA optical drives and Windows is not set to auto restart after system failure.

It's like someone is pressing the reset-button at completely random. I've even tried to yank out the reset cable from the motherboard to see if that was the problem, but that was useless. I'm currently fighting with the computer to throw in the "official" bios 1,1 from msi's product page. Damn those slow disk drives! ;p

At any rate, I'll keep you all posted with updates.