tombarry wrote:Yep been there -changed this and that but never got it sorted
Put me right off AMD cpu's Very annoying when you've been working on cad or p/shop hours of work lost
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anyways updating
Graphics ,drivers and the
bios may help as It seemed to do it less -I nearly went for water cooling but not worth it
good luck
I've built hundreds of PC's with AMD cpu's in them, there's never been a fault with one.
It's the other components - a CPU is a solid chip, you need to burn it out, destroy a contact or crack the chip inside to stop it from working... not an easy task!
with regards to water cooling, it's rarely ever needed, a £60 HSF will do an adequate job. I've got a full internal water loop in my home PC, which is used for web dev, graphics & cad - keeps the i7 nice and cool, but at around £500 for the whole set up, I think I would have been just as well off with a corsair H50 :P
back to the topic,
sounds like a memory error to me, run memtest 96 (boot from disk) and let it check your RAM.
another good way to test ram is to remove all sticks, label them 1-4 (or however many you have) and insert each of them into the DIMM slots, starting at 0 and report how they do.
it's an arduous way to do it, but it's proven to work.
once you work out which of the sticks are working, then try using them in pairs.
Cheers,
Matt
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