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FM2A88X+ BTC freezes

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Topic: FM2A88X+ BTC freezes

Posted By: Magnetic_dud
Subject: FM2A88X+ BTC freezes
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2016 at 1:49am

" rel="nofollow - Hi, I have a system with FM2A88X+ BTC, AMD A8-7600, and 2 sticks of ADATA DDR3 RAM and a WD Red HDD 3TB.

Symptoms: it freezes after about 20 minutes, whatever the OS, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows

I tried:

buying a new 600W PSU
buying new Corsair DDR3 sticks
buying a new HDD (Toshiba dt01aca300)
downlocking ram to 800 Mhz
resetting BIOS defaults

Firmware installed is 1.80. From what I found it looks like this: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=601&title=fm2a88x-extreme4-w10-and-bios-260-freezing

So, the problem could be either the CPU, either the motherboard.

Should I try to downgrade my firmware?

What can I do?

Replies:

Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2016 at 2:04am

" rel="nofollow - Have you tried disabling "Package C6" in the BIOS? That's Package C6, not simply C6 states.

Since you mine that change isn't an issue.

Posted By: Magnetic_dud
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2016 at 2:36am

" rel="nofollow - What's the Package C6?

I bought the BTC version because of the 8 SATA ports and the other version wasn't available on my retailer. I plan to use this as an home server, I don't mine. This computer must be turned on 24/7 and should never go to standby or power saving mode

Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2016 at 8:36am

" rel="nofollow -

Magnetic_dud wrote:

What's the Package C6?

It's an option in the BIOS.

Posted By: Magnetic_dud
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2016 at 12:02am

Downgraded to EFI version 1.70 and I didn't have any crash. Ran furmark+cpu stress for 72 hours no problem Smile

Also disabled Package C6

edit: I tried to enable Package C6 again and my system froze during Debian install. Frustrating. I'm disabling it again.