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It’s been almost two months and I have finally encountered the first major technical issue with my PC. It has restarted by itself on numerous occasions this evening and each time I restart I’m getting the error message ‘A hyper transport sync flood error occurred on last boot.’

At first it seemed to be rather random but became more of a problem when I started up Modern Warfare 2. I could be in the game for approximately two minutes before the machine restarts and gives this error.

I have done a bit of reading on this and it appears that there are a few factors that may contribute to this, one being that not enough power is being supplied to the RAM and power saving features may be hitting the processor. Now for the latter I really hadn’t thought about this as prior to installing Windows 7 I was using ASUS’s EPU software, but stopped because it wasn’t compatible with the new O/S.

Anyway I’ve checked through BIOS for a few settings, my DRAM voltages are set to ‘auto’, which is good. I did however, find that Cool ‘n’ Quiet is also running. This has now been disabled, the power used by my PC is now around 20 watts higher than it was but never mind, it’s no big deal.

I shall go off for a game of Modern Warfare 2 now to see how it holds up. Wish me luck!