{"id":39,"date":"2008-02-16T21:43:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglets.org\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-02-16T21:43:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T21:43:53","slug":"asus-p5kc-memory-psu-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/16\/asus-p5kc-memory-psu-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUS P5KC Memory \/ PSU Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, I spoke<\/a> to soon. I thought video was my only problem.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday I planned to work at home, to get a lot of code written for OPUS<\/a> and found my computer locked. I kept restarting it, kept getting kernel panics. The temperature was fine, there was no abnormal load, I tried a new kernel or four, and apparently got a bit more stability. The graphics problems were worse than ever, and I get fed up and bought an ATI HD2600 Pro, which solved all those problems.<\/p>\n

Still the machine kept locking. I eventually began to suspect the memory.I'd already run memtest over the whole thing (one pass) with no problems, but then I tried booting into memtest after one lock, and got thousands<\/b> of errors. Long story short, I've tried swapping modules, running on one module, nothing I can do will make the system stable. I of course had already tried a BIOS update. That was a problem in its own right - the most recent BIOS was incorrectly stamped and would not flash, I've notified ASUS who have taken it off the site.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I've now found out I'm not<\/a> alone<\/a>. I bought slightly slower memory than I intended because I was warned of problems, but I'm now actually forcing it to run slower still. Having said that, others have reported this is not a successful stop gap fix since they are still getting crashes. So, for now, don't<\/b> buy this board until they have the memory issues sorted out.<\/p>\n

Update<\/h2>\n

I eventually began to wonder if the PSU was to blame, and though when I went to buy a new PSU I was advised of frequent problems with this board, I decided to get both a new motherboard (for gondolin) in time, and a PSU. The new motherboard still crashed once, though it was much more reliable, when I booted it back into memtest I get lots of memory failures in different<\/b> locations. I've since installed the new PSU, and everything seems stable. Hurrah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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