IC7-G Stable for 3 days.

[h2so4]

Thanks to good advice from Skid and the ubiquitous TomG it gives me great pleasure to announce that my IC-G system has been totally stable for three whole days. The Herman Miller Aeron chair seems to have done the trick.

I'm a happy camper with a cool bum. I am of course referring to the to the temperature rather than stylishness of the aforesaid bum. Although there have been occasions when lady friends have commented favourably on this feature of my near perfect physique. Modesty forbids that I go into detail here other than to say that the Herman Miller matches my bum exactly and I haven't had a system crash for three whole days.

Thanks a lot guys.

 

[Skid]

I am glad to hear the information contained in the first sentence of your post. After that, it was much more than I needed to know.

"h2so4" wrote:

Thanks to good advice from Skid and the ubiquitous TomG it gives me great pleasure to announce that my IC-G system has been totally stable for three whole days. The Herman Miller Aeron chair seems to have done the trick.

I'm a happy camper with a cool bum. I am of course referring to the to the temperature rather than stylishness of the aforesaid bum. Although there have been occasions when lady friends have commented favourably on this feature of my near perfect physique. Modesty forbids that I go into detail here other than to say that the Herman Miller matches my bum exactly and I haven't had a system crash for three whole days.

Thanks a lot guys.

 

[TomG]

so any idea what setting(s) contributed to said stability? great news, by the way...

 

[Skid]

"TomG" wrote:

so any idea what setting(s) contributed to said stability? great news, by the way...

Now you've done it. He'll go back and try to retrace his steps in the bios to report back on what was changed -- and his system will get all bolloxed up again ;>)

 

[h2so4]

Oh no he won't! Not a single crash for a whole week so I'll stick with my current settings Manual, 2,3,3,5 and GAT auto, auto, auto, disabled, disabled. I got stable by following Skid's advice by setting the RAM timings to 2, 3, 3, 7. I'm fairly certain that the last setting somehow adjusted itself from 7 to 5...very odd.

This mainboard is a complete puzzle to me. I don't overclock and I have good cooling and I've tested my Corsair 3200TwinXLL etc., but if I even think about tinkering with the GAT settings my system seems to go haywire. I have successfully overclocked previous mainboards and maintained good stability but this one has been a right bugger at default settings. Perhaps later revisions of the board have been improved.

 

[Skid]

At this point I hesitate to offer more advice, but you should raise that 5 to 6 or 7. The last number should be the first two, plus one or two. Check the memory section of the bios guide at www.rojackpot.com for a technical explanation.

Leaving GAT alone is a good idea. Abit has never specified what those settings actually change, but they seem to do more harm than good in an overclocked system with tight manual settings.

"h2so4" wrote:

Oh no he won't! Not a single crash for a whole week so I'll stick with my current settings Manual, 2,3,3,5 and GAT auto, auto, auto, disabled, disabled. I got stable by following Skid's advice by setting the RAM timings to 2, 3, 3, 7. I'm fairly certain that the last setting somehow adjusted itself from 7 to 5...very odd.

This mainboard is a complete puzzle to me. I don't overclock and I have good cooling and I've tested my Corsair 3200TwinXLL etc., but if I even think about tinkering with the GAT settings my system seems to go haywire. I have successfully overclocked previous mainboards and maintained good stability but this one has been a right bugger at default settings. Perhaps later revisions of the board have been improved.

 

[TomG]

urk!

 

[TomG]

great job... glad to hear it is still stable!