New Mobo

**Swarfing** · 13-07-2012

check that hyper threading is not on if it has it in the bios. look for lapic in there too and switch it off, if all else fails give us the details of the board. Power saving must be switched off on everything from the bios and the OPS. You say you have 512 of ram? change the settings so that windows looks after your virtual memory. Put some more ram in as well if you can and update to SP3 if you have not?

**JAZZCNC** · 13-07-2012

Originally Posted by 2e0poz

You say you have 512 of ram?

Didn't see this bit.!! . . . . This will be big problem.! I had a machine other week doing silly things and turned out to be low memory on PC.!!

**Jonathan** · 13-07-2012

Originally Posted by JAZZCNC

Didn't see this bit.!! . . . . This will be big problem.! I had a machine other week doing silly things and turned out to be low memory on PC.!!

The previous computer I used for CNC had 512Mb and it was poor. The one I currently use has 1Gb, not much by today's standards but still works fine... that is until I switched it on 5 minutes ago and got this:

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Sigh...

**JAZZCNC** · 13-07-2012

Originally Posted by Jonathan

that is until I switched it on 5 minutes ago and got this:

Sigh...

Bet it's Damp in Monitor.!! . . I've had it in the past. Take in house and leave next to Rad for a few hours.!!

**Jonathan** · 13-07-2012

Originally Posted by JAZZCNC

Bet it's Damp in Monitor.!!

Lucky you didn't bet - workshop has dehumidifier!

**cropwell** · 13-07-2012

Could be a subliminal message in an autostereogram

**blackburn mark** · 14-07-2012

Originally Posted by Jonathan

The previous computer I used for CNC had 512Mb and it was poor. The one I currently use has 1Gb, not much by today's standards but still works fine... that is until I switched it on 5 minutes ago and got this:

Sigh...

iv had a few of those... on really hot days my (cnc) atom motherboard goes a bit lala and looks like that (have to switch off and let it cool.. needs a couple more fans under there)

if you have a NVIDIA graphics card its likley you need to bake it (re-flow)

gas mark 6 for ten minutes if i remember correctly... i use a small pen type blow torch on mine with a thermocouple sat on the chip (i isolate the chip with foil tape)
saves having to strip all the plastics off for the oven
i can get my card out, re-flow it and back in in half an hour now (im on my third time in a couple of years)

**cropwell** · 29-07-2012

I have just (this weekend) got my machine up and running with a revamped control box and cables cut and re-plugged to correct lengths. Set up the coolant control to switch on a little air pump (35litres/min), just right to clear cutting debris.

So I started to cut a sign for a friends daughter's play house - and then the computer froze 2 mins into the job. So i rebooted the computer, turned over the wood and started again. Ths time it froze after 10 mins. So i rebooted the computer, but it was dead.

The common factor in all these computer problems is AMD. My two Intel based machines have been rock solid reliable. So from my experience AMD processors do not deliver reliability.

I am going to buy a new Mobo and processor and start again. I just hope that the Hard Drive with all my system, programs and work is not affected. That would really piss me off. Not that I am a tad annoyed at the moment

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By the way , if you look up the definition of a 'tad' you will find it is 0.00000265 of an inch (+/- a foot). As a unit of torque it is expressed in dynes per square fortnight.

Roll on the revolution !

Cheers, I am going for a bottle of 'Spitfire'

Rob