Solution to “I’m Irritated”
Updated 22nov2007! After removing my Creative X-fi Extreme Music and using the on-board cheap audio, my system is now solid stable!! Guess Gigabyte P35-DS3 isn’t going easy with Creative X-fi. I find p35-PS3R doing well with the same soundcard though thru some discussion here. Sadly, I’m using onboard sound device that underpowered my THX speaker system.
Somehow somewhere sometimes I found out that I’m on the right track to solving the problems that I have in my new rig. Let me refresh my list again. I have a…
- Intel E6750 2.66Ghz
- Corsair Valueram 1GB 667 x 2
- Gigabyte P35-DS3
- Sapphire 2900Pro 512MB DDR3
- Creative Extreme Music
- Silverstone 560W Strider series
Before I start with the solutions I found, let me elaborate on how to simulate the “phenomena“.
- Run firefox, load some sites with flash or download some files using firefox’s built-in download manager, when / before download finishes, Firefox should hang and computer may be fully/ partially frozen.
- Navigate thru a list of non-english-named folders, Windows Explorer will either not displaying them in a list (showing nothing in the subfolder listing when you clicked on the folder that suppose to have many non-english-named folders) or you will get the Menu Bar (where all the ‘file’,'edit,’views’ situated) turn into a white bar with a windows logo in the center and finding that you can’t right click anything to get its properties.
First of all, I tried to turn off non-memory-execute option in the BIOS, I can say that my system became a lot more stable than previously although there are still some distortion / unable to right click scenes happened throughout my regular execution of my programs like firefox, windows media player, browsing HDD files doing copy/paste and playing games. (Thats basically the purpose this rig serve to do, not to dod homework, not to use it to earn money, is for entertainment purpose only :) )
After finding it stable for few days already, I was thinking something must be wrong with some / one of my other components till the point that I need to turn off that option earlier. That option supposed to better protect / enhance my computing experience and not to bring hell lots of trouble to me.
I checked in the internet and found out that Gigabyte has many revisions for the same model released into the market. Before I bought this board, I found out that there is a revision Version 2 in the internet and I didn’t really bother about it and settled with revision ver1 unfortunately (and I didn’t check when I bought it also). The newer revision surely has more advantages in it else why the hell they release a new revised board carrying the same model name. I read it somewhere in the internet that Gigabyte doesn’t really have good track of record on finalizing everything properly before releasing a new product line unlike Asus. For a simple example, to support some upcoming new processors, (most of, maybe) Asus’s boards need to do some minimal update to get them to support new procs. Things are not so easy with this brand accordingly to what I read. This may not be true but time will surely tell.
Next, I found out that I have tried to update every single hardware driver to try to fix the problem but not the vital Chipset Driver! Thats one silly forgetful mistake that I should never do. So, I just point to intel.com to get some new spices for the 3-series chipset I have in my box, installed it and restore back all the optimal configurations in BIOS and things are as stable as by not turning off non-memory-execute as before.
I do still experience some distorted windows, inability to use right-click but not as fatal as before that I can only reset the whole system. I will need to close those suspicious program and start them again then things get kicking again. I hope I’m buying Asus next time.
Lesson of the day: Update chipset driver when you have problem with your new motherboard.
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