GA-P67A-D3-B3 cyclic rebooting

[ecodad]

Hello All,

New build with a GA-P67A-D3-B3 rev 1 board.
Vertex 3 120G, 2 tb caviar, ATI 5770 video, 8 gb running win7 64. 2 optical drives. PSU 550 watt. All stock settings no OC.

Problem when I try to add a 1394 PCI card.

Machine just reboots over and over - no post. Remove card and all goes well... no change from moving cards into different slots.

Help would be appreciated. Thanks

[steve2470]

Hello All,

New build with a GA-P67A-D3-B3 rev 1 board.
Vertex 3 120G, 2 tb caviar, ATI 5770 video, 8 gb running win7 64. 2 optical drives. PSU 550 watt. All stock settings no OC.

Problem when I try to add a 1394 PCI card.

Machine just reboots over and over - no post. Remove card and all goes well... no change from moving cards into different slots.

Help would be appreciated. Thanks

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,6502.0.html

Hi, my problem is similar to yours in the thread I posted. You might want to check it out.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

It is possible that your PSU is not quite powerful enough for your system. The present PSU (if it's new) if it is a good make and really 550W (often a cheap one won't be) is borderline for running your system and it might just be that your card is putting it over the top.

Have you checked that the card works on another machine ?

[ecodad]

Thank you for the feedback.

Have tried another approach - maybe the issue it created will shed some light.

Installed a new usb2 and 1394 PCI Express card (instead of the PCI card). This installed OK - drivers found and it works. Now, when I shut down I get a blue screen of death! - Only at shut down....

Will see if this condition persists or shows up at other times. Vendor has suggested the mobo may be bad. (have installed the latest bios).

Any thoughts.

(BTW CPU is an i7 2600K no OC)

Thanks

[Dark Mantis]

Well the obvious next question is what is the Stop code on the BSOD?

[ecodad]

away from the computer in question right now. will get the bsod details.

I do recall that the bsod identified "applecharger.sys"and stated "page fault in nonpage area".....

will get code later today.

thanks

[Dark Mantis]

Sounds like it might be a memory fault from what you have said.

[ecodad]

Hi,

More bsod details as promised.

Stop: 0x00000050 (OXFFFFF8880435C428, OXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, OXFFFFF880043598OA, OXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO5)

applecharger.sys - address fffff880043598oa base at fffff88004357000, dates tamp 4d2ad809

Upon restarting after bsod, given option of starting in safe mode. not taken and things run OK. I've had one lock up since.
Machine was stable for 2 weeks (since being built) until adding cards.

Thanks for the help.

[absic]

Hi there,

There is a possible problem with Microsoft Windows if you are running Windows7 nthat can cause this kind of error. There is a Microsoft Hotfix available if you think this maybe the cause of the problem check here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979538 for more info.

[Dark Mantis]

Yes as I originally thought I expect it is to do with the memory but do try absic's fix first just to make sure.

The BSOD Stop code that you are receiving is "Incorrect memory timing/freq or uncore multiplier" so that will give you something to go on. If they are on Auto still try manually making the settings and voltage in the BIOS.

Is the memory 2 x 4GB or 4 x 2GB ?

[ecodad]

I have 2 x 4GB Patriot Viper Xtreme DDR3 1600 in slots 1 and 3. No OC or mods.

I searched the internet for the combination of applecharger and bsod 50 error. found a similar problem and a simple solution. Given that I do not use an ipod or similar device with this machine, I located the applecharger.sys file in my windows folder and renamed it applecharger.bak (also renamed the applecharger.exe to applecharger.old) and rebooted. First time I got the same bsod - second reboot & shutdown no problems

Not necessarily the best fix. Maybe it will only postpone the inevitable. Rig seems stable as i've been encoding video for 5 hours....

Thanks for the help. Let me know if i've gone down a wrong path....

[Dark Mantis]

No I don't see any problem with your fix and as you say if it is not useful to you why have it enabled. Glad you manmaged to sort it out.