I bought a new custom box in November 2008 with MIS Platnum mother board and an AMD Phenom 9500 CPU. Once I got minor bugs worked out it had run flawlusly for months until a few weeks ago. I'm running XP Pro with all updates, lots of fans and no heat problems. A few weeks ago, the machine froze on me and it then worked fine after a hard shut down. Last week my duel monitors both suddenly just went black. Lights on case were still on, NIC light on, DVD drive opened but apparently the board shut down. Tech support at place I bought had me swap out the cross fire GeForce cards thinking one was failing. Box still crashed. We reset the bios settings to standard settings and it crashed again today. Both yesterday and today, the box crashed about 3 PM after being on since 8:30 AM. Any ideas? Do you believe the mother board is failing? HELP Please!!!
This is a problem complexing situation because here are involved more than one device that causing this, if you have time and parts to experiment is a good think, you have to take out from your board cpu ram and vga-s and put in their place a second component(take from your friend or if you know that guy in service maybe halping you with parts so even him is taking experience of this situations). after testing your Mb with second components if it working fine no shut downs no crahes, then problem is in one of other components, try it taking out second parts one by one eny time, replacing with your components. begin with vga(or vga-s if you have more than one but is better to put it and prove them one by one to diagnose if their have problems) after doing this and you didnt finded problem in vga/s let your part in place and change second ram taht you puted with yours(if have more than a module prove it one by one each time reboting system after each one.) if even in your ram you dont have problems, so change cpu/s. one of this components without dubt is faulty.
if problem resolved and you dont have more problems and didnt find a faulty component and your pc is working fine so it was a miss making.
try all experiments with mother board outside case. some time shrt circuit of Mb with case is causing problem, after try it in case if you dont finded problems, in any way that i told you up.
These Motherboards have a known problem with a heated northbridge, maybe it's easiest to check , to let someone at the service station let it run for a while with a temp probe under the cooling fin of the north bridge (MB dont have builtin temp.-probe there) could last a few hours, and then suddenly stops because surrounding Mb parts are overheating.
Hyper Transport Bus • HyperTransport 1.0 supporting speed up to 1000MT/sChipset
• NVIDIA® nForce 630a & GeForce 7025 chipset
Main Memory
• Supports Dual Channel DDR2 667/800
- 2 DDR2 DIMMs (240pin / 1.8V)
- Supports a maximum memory size up to 8GB.
Slots
• One PCI Express 1.0 x16 slot.
• One PCI Express 1.0 x1 slot.
• Two PCI slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).
On-Board IDE
• One IDE port by NVIDIA® nForce 630a & GeForce 7025 chipset
- Supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode
- Supports PIO, Bus Master operation mode
- Can connect up to two IDE devicesOn-Board SATA
• Two SATA II ports by NVIDIA® nForce 630a & GeForce 7025 chipset
- Supports storage and data transfers at up to 3Gb/s RAID Function
- SATA II 1~2 supports RAID 0, 1 mode by NVIDIA® nForce 630a & GeForce 7025 chipset
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This machine is my daily workstation at my insurance agency and I use it a lot all day long. While I do have 5 other computers here and lots of spare hardware, I have none with compatable parts because this is my newest machine and my first AMD box ever.
A suggestion that I try some burn in software to attempt to narrow the problem down some sounds like a good idea to try. I'll post when I learn anything.
There is no way to identify the problem without extensive testing OR replacing components until the problem goes away. It could be a failing motherboard, but you can't tell for sure without testing. You might try the free evaluation of some burn in software to help you identify the problem.
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