AOD system crash ( crash to ... restart )

[NDC1995]

Hello!
1st of all , not sure this is the right section to post this , i'm not trying to OC (not with my stock cooler and wire-management free case...). All that i want is to accurately monitor my cpu temp.I was told AOD gives the best temps for my Athlon X4 860k(HWmonitor, cpuz, speedan, AI suite all report temperatures from 120 to -3 celsius). (mobo a88x-plus, 1 stick 4gb kingston value ram, asus R7 250x 1gb gddr5, healthy PSU over 600watt)

As the title says , Amd Over Drive crashes the whole thing to an instant restart (no BSOD, just the windows boot option on start). It does so when it says initializing. Happens on both 64 and 32 bit versions of windows 7 (up to date).

QuickEdit: Also AOD doesn't like to be uninstalled for some reason ... have to do it with uninstall tool from microsoft.

Other than this , the PC runs smooth. (except for the HDD that sounds on startup like a tuna can ... being opened with a chainsaw, i kind of ruled that out using a perfect health HDD, same crash).

I burn tested the every pice of it:funmark, memtest86 (prime95 for 6hours ,did not intend for it to run for more than 1 hour , but i fell asleep). I even used somethin to check the HDD (sounds like a diesel engine but is reporting full health from pretty much every angle the test software ran it) ... and went to the 2nd page of google.

Can't put my finger on it... what else do i need to do to get AOD to run?

 

[damric]

Your overclock is very unstable.

1) Clear CMOS

2) Boot into Safe Mode.

3) Uninstall AOD

4) Enter BIOS. Refer to Motherboard Manual. Overclock.

5) Test Overclock.

 

[NDC1995]

Your overclock is very unstable.

1) Clear CMOS

2) Boot into Safe Mode.

3) Uninstall AOD

4) Enter BIOS. Refer to Motherboard Manual. Overclock.

5) Test Overclock.

Thankyou for your reply!

As i said in my original post. I am not trying to overclock. everything using stock specs. There is no overclock in place. Stock voltage, Stock multiplier ... stock everything.

My problem is that i can't get accurate temp reads in most prgrams and AOD is said to work better. Problem is AOD is not starting.

I will default CMOS anyways. (It's default allready but hey ... it won't hurt it)

 

[damric]

It's true for the 860K, AOD seems to be best for reading thermal margin, however some cheaper motherboards do not work quite right with the software, and the software is very old and glitchy in its own right. The old program called Core Temp could also possibly measure it if you set it to "distance from TJ Max". Most of the other programs will incorrectly read the tctl signal and give you an erroneous temperature reading.

Regardless, right now you don't really need to monitor that. I mean you could stick your finger on the heat sink and not get burned so it's not running too hot and if it did reach zero thermal margin the CPU would throttle down anyway. Let's figure out what's making your system unstable and come back to AOD, ect after that is resolved.

Which PSU model is that? Sorry it's always the first item verified in my troubleshooting process.

 

[NDC1995]

Which PSU model is that? Sorry it's always the first item verified in my troubleshooting process.


I mean you could stick your finger on the heat sink and not get burned so it's not running too hot.

Sirtec High Power Eco II 550W.

It won't burn, but you really can't keep your finger on it for more than 10 seconds(at full, constant load). At least I applied the thermal paste corectly 😀

 

[Calvin7]

I suggest you replace 1 stick 4gb kingston value ram with
a (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 kit and enable XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) in BIOS.

G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231519

 

[NDC1995]

I suggest you replace 1 stick 4gb kingston value ram with
a (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 kit and enable XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) in BIOS.

G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231519

... if you got some standing around and just wasting your precious shelf space , i'm willing to PM you my mailing adress 😀

I don't think i need that sort of ram for my parents to play pudding pop on facebook and to run .... whatever games i can run on 1gb VRAM.

I also don't see how that adresses AOD crashing my computer.

 

[damric]

Could you list all of your system specs? What kind of drive are you using and how old is it?

 

[NDC1995]

Could you list all of your system specs? What kind of drive are you using and how old is it?

I use a SSHD (it may be noisy when booting but i get the problem with other healthy HDD as well).
Drive is 1 year old.
Hard disk Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA-III
PSU: Sirtec High Power Eco2 550W
video: R7250X-1GB of GDDR5
mobo: Asus A88X-Plus
CPU: Athlon X4 860k (stock cooler)
Ram: KVR16N11S8/4 (kingoston value ram 4gb ddr3)
Also an Asus DVD RW .... unknown model

And that is prety much all there is in the case ....

 

[damric]

How old is the PSU?

 

[NDC1995]

How old is the PSU?

1 year old. everything is 1 year old. it was put together 1 year ago.

 

[damric]

You already uninstalled AOD right?

 

[NDC1995]

You already uninstalled AOD right?

yes , AOD is uninstalled.

 

[damric]

Could you explain the problem in more detail?

 

[NDC1995]

Could you explain the problem in more detail?

Well. That is all there is to it.
Computer works fine.
I start AOD.
A message saying something about hardware damage pops up.
If i press No, Program ends.

If i press Yes, a grey box with some text saying "initializing..." appears for less than a second and then the computer resets. Black screen, press del for bios , a beep , POST then a screen giving me boot options saying that "windows did not shut down ok-ish last time" (not the actual text , but u know the window, same one that pops up if you unplug your computer and then start it).

No blue screen.
No other errors.

Then it all works fine. Untill i try to start AOD, case in which all of the above repeat.

Edit: It's very, very, strange sort of problem. (1 other error occured a year ago, and now i recall it When viewing Facebook on google chrome, after you scrool down a bit, a BSOD would pop up, but now that does not happen anymore with the current version of chrome, probably something wrong with Chrome, i thought it could be related to RAM but memtest came out ok...)

 

[damric]

So it sounds like your problem was resolved once you uninstalled AOD and ceased dickering with it.

 

[NDC1995]

So it sounds like your problem was resolved once you uninstalled AOD and ceased dickering with it.

Correct. The puropse of this post was to fix this particualr problem, and get AOD working.

Edit: Is there anything else i can do to pinpoint where is the issue comping from?

Guess my answer is no. Well , thank you for trying, damric.