Random Crashes with MSI x48c Platinum

logiq

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Hello everyone.

After crabbing some new hardware and putting it together, Im having trouble with these annoying random crashes. It does not happen often however, maybe a few times in a day. The screen turns black and the sound just loops forever. Then I have to restart it manually. Sometimes it will boot right up again, but other times I have to restart twice, because I dont even get the POST screen up, the screen just stays black.

Motherboard: MSI x48c Platinum
Graphic Card: Asus EAH4870
RAM: OCZ DDR3 4 GB Platinum XTC DualChannel (PC3-12800 2x2048MB 1600MHz.)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz 1333Mhz
PSU: Corsair CMPSU-750TXEU 750W
OS: Windows Vista x64 Ultimate

I have a clean installation of Vista x64 and all the drivers are updated.

No overclocking, everything is running on default (Except I adjusted the graphic card fan, because it was hitting over 80 freaking Celsius when idling..!)

The temp for the CPU is 35-50c, and with the fan fix for my graphic card, its running on 50c. So overheating shouldnt be a problem.

I have tried these things:

Reset CMOS
Flashed my BIOS to the newst version, 7.4

Memory clock timers to from cl 7-7-7-20 to cl 9-9-9-24
Memory voltage to 1.63V
Memory Clock speed to DDR3-1067
Ran memtest84 for four hours, 3 passes, 0 errors

Raised Vcore voltage up by 0.0250V

Under load, the CPU Fan RPM skyrockets up to as far as 2600 (Idling around 1700-1900). I can adjust this but when I lower it, it just raises it up again. The temp is around 50-60. So I figured that's kinda weird..

When I turn on "D.O.T" in the dual core center, my PC crashes way faster. Not sure what D.O.T does, tried to google it but came up empty.

Here are some screenshots: (Click pictures for larger view)

Clock / Fan / CPU



Temp / Volt / Cache



Mainboard



Memory



SPD


Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advice.
 
Same is the case with me, E8500 on X48C MB, The problem I think arised when I upgrade my BIOS through MSI live center, Did you also updated the BIOS. Dual Core Center was working fine before. Don't use DOT its very hazardous for processor to change its FSB under full load. It misses some critical cycles to come upto required speed and hance unsolved code renders the System unstable.
 
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