Well, the Everest log, up to the freeze point, anyway, shows less that
70% on one core and about 5% on the other, so unless something snuck in
there between one log update and the freeze, I don't _think_ that's it.
I've never seen the dual core maxed out on both cores unless I'm running 2
compute intensive things. The file transfer just hits one heavy and the
other normally stays less than 30%. I'm not ruling it out, but I think
that's lower on the probability list. I wish Biostar had a northbridge temp
sensor, they monitor the shipset voltage for some resaon, but not the temp.
Really threw me at first, Everest reads it as the 2.5vdc mem voltage sensor
but says that it's 1.6 vdc, the chipset voltage.

pek

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> pek wrote:
>
>> Caps look ok, Biostar still features this board on their home page, so
>> I'm pretty sure production probs have been worked out. Of course, they
>> might just have one humungus unsold inventory. I discovered something
>> else
>> in my troubleshooting; The freeze happens without fail when I am
>> transfering a lot of large files (movies or mp3's). Which points me at
>> the
>> chipset for sure. I have an aftermarket Thermatake fan on it, the old
>> one
>> was way too noisy.
>
> The sound looping means it hasnt frozen at all. Many audio players do
> that when the cpu isnt able to keep up with their demands. The audio
> playing stream defaultly gets higher priority than everything else,
> including taskman for some reason, so when the cpu is maxed out you get
> no response from anything except the player, which just loops because
> it isnt getting data refreshed.
>
> Definitely looks like a software problem to me, something maxing out
> the cpu.
>
>
> NT
>