voltages on P4PE / AIW 9700 pro that reboots

Hi,

I have an Asus P4PE with a 9700 PRO AIW and an Audigy 2 that's rebooting after an hour or so gaming, then naturally it keeps rebooting as soon as games start.

When I look in the bios Vcore voltage is set to auto at 1.525, then when I look in the hardware monitoring, it's actually reading at a fluctuating value up to 1.6 v. Is this a problem? I have an Xcase 500w power supply. Is that a piece of junk? I've already set the AGP voltage to 1.7, disabled fast write, and installed catalyst 3.4 per ATI. I haven't tried turning down the video settings yet lol, I was just looking thru the bios and this seemed like a good place to start. I'm thinking about trying my live 5.1, it seemed like I could make it reboot turning off Environmental Audio in America's Army(I ran this game for months with this turned on with no reboots on my P3 800 GeForce 3 ti 200 live 5.1, lol this box KICKS ASS on that old one for that first hour btw in case you were wondering).

I know I'm exposing my newbishness here but that's how you find stuff out and fix things right?

I don't have any perf settings turned on in the bios like System peformance mode or memory turbo.
Here's my whole configuration, if you want to add anything, but the voltages seem really suspicious to me:

P4PE bios rev 1005(latest)
2.4B cpu
1 gig kingston DDR333 cas 2.5(2 x 512)
Radeon 9700 pro AIW built buy ATI catalyst 3.4 just
->Drivers, WDM, and control panel(no AIW stuff installed)
Audigy 2
WD spec. ed 160 gb
Toshiba SDR-5002 DVD/RW
Thermaltake Xaser III V2000A(at least it looks cool)
XP pro
Intel App accelerator
ran the latest inf update off intel's sight, 5.something

Thanks.

Committed to excellence, willing to make do with high average, able to get by on mediocrity in a pinch.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Karlsbad on 06/16/03 08:06 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Thanks for answering Crash. So those voltages don't seem problematic? You'd think with what that video card cost it would include some temp monitoring ware lol unless that's an 'oversight'. What's thermal kickdown mean again lol? CPU definitely isn't overheating I think, I have 2 temp probes on it and it never gets higher than 115 deg F.

Committed to excellence, willing to make do with high average, able to get by on mediocrity in a pinch.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Karlsbad on 06/16/03 09:32 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

By thermal kickdown I refer to Intel's clock throttling, which turns down the core speed whever the CPU reaches a certain temp.

I figured it was either your video card or memory getting hot, having the cas latency set too high could cause heat, or heat could cause instability at that cas setting.

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DOH! Yeah that did it, turning down the CAS timing. Um how embarassing, I put a 400 MHz fsb 2.4 P4 in there that's making my DDR333 run at 267. No biggie its up for sale on ebay right now lol and the replacement one's on the way from newegg. Boy and I thought this thing was fast now, I'm expecting a +30% boost. Obviously my standards are low lol. Got the 9700 pro AIW running smooth with all the options peaked on the card and in games. ATI told me that it doesn't use fast write and I should go ahead and disable it. Hmmmm.

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