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

[panheimer]

Uh, before leaving this thread i would like to thank loonym for his help and many suggestions, xaviermaxx for his excel file and deep analyze of this board and all other users who posted here as it was very useful for me.

[Fiskbit]

panheimer: I hope things work out better for you with the new board. A shame the P7N didn't work out for you. Good luck!

loonym: I can't help but think I triggered that rant. I've read through this 1000 post thread in its entirety, though I should probably do it again soon considering that I know a lot more now than I did the first time through and would get more out of it. I'm hardly new to building my own computers, but rather to tweaking hardware and such. This is the first time I've had issues with stability at stock (which is what I've always run) and frankly it's frustrating for me. Diagnosing random reboots is not something I'm familiar with, and seeing other people have similar issues and then give up after fiddling with it for a while is a bit discouraging. On the plus side, the reboots aren't frequent enough (usually, though even this is inconsistent) to keep me from enjoying this awesome system I've built. It's a definite step up from everything I've used before.

I'm gonna up my northbridge voltage a couple notches to see if that makes a difference. I'm unsure of what other settings to tweak in the BIOS to try to counter this, so suggestions would be great. Definitely been appreciating your help so far, loonym; I find it rare that people bother to help out beginners at all.

[XavierMaxx]

Uh, before leaving this thread i would like to thank loonym for his help and many suggestions, xaviermaxx for his excel file and deep analyze of this board and all other users who posted here as it was very useful for me.

Thanks, man...sorry I couldn't be of more help to you. I mostly have the board working for me, but it did take me over a month to get it stable, and that was with sleepless nights and a lot of build experience. I don't know of anybody who has as much patience as I do, either, lol.

As an update, I will be going SLI this weekend, I will be sure to post back my results.

[Fiskbit]

XavierMaxx, I look forward to hearing how SLI goes for you.


I upped my Northbridge voltage earlier from 1.2 to 1.25v and got a blue screen a while afterward. The only technical information it had is this:

*** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0x80551AE4,0xB185D83C,0x00000000)

It says it made a RAM dump, though I don't know what I'd do with it. I assume this is an indication that the voltage was too high, though if it's not, I'd appreciate if someone can correct me. I've lowered the voltage to 1.225 in hope that maybe that will work; if I get another BSOD, I'm going back to auto and assuming that the problem isn't NB voltage. In the mean time, I'm looking for info on the error online.