Strage continuous beep from UPS during Gigabyte 970A-DS3/AMD FX 8320 Stability Test on AIDA64

Rangan Das

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CONFIG:
CPU: AMD FX-8320 @3.5GHz with Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO
MB: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 rev 3.0.
RAM:2x 4GB DDR3 RAM
GPU: AMD Radeon 7850 2GB GDDR5
UPS: APC Back-UPS 600VA
PSU:500W Cooler Master Thunder.
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro with WMC

PROBLEM:
I use AIDA64 for monitoring my hardware and I am using the current version (4.7.3200). The moment I start a Stability test, the graphs and the program would freeze and a long continuous (never-ending) beep from the UPS. The beep stops after I reset the system.

Now, without the system overclocked, when I run the stability test, with everything but the disks being stressed, I get the beeping within a matter of few seconds (20 seconds) when the CPU temp hits about 40-45°C. The system usually freezes at this stage. North Bridge temps stay around 58-59deg C.

The GPU is always OCed to 925MHz though. However, till date, my CPU never went above 70deg C and my GPU never went above 75deg C.

Now, sometimes, when the system does not freeze, I manage to uncheck the Stress FPU option, the beeping goes away, no resetting is needed.

When I OC the CPU to 4GHz and run the test, the same beep happens without FPU stressing. The max CPU temp stays around 50°C. North Bridge temps barely cross 60deg C.

When I run AMD Overdrive from AMD Catalyst Control Center and go over to 4.2GHz, there is no beeping. The CPU temp hits 52 degrees then, but no beeping or freezes. I did all tests using BurnInTest Pro 8 and there is no beeping. I played Far Cry 4 on Ultra for hours and there was no beeping.

I used AIDA64 previously too and I did stress tests before too, but nothing like this happened.

It is ONLY HAPPENING WITH AIDA64 (both current stable and beta version). Can anyone help me figure out where exactly the problem is?

Figured out the source of the beep and updated the post.
 




You are welcome. Buying a new motherboard is not a solution here, I assume.
 


In my opinion, your motherboard seems perfectly fine...