So basically, I built a new computer a couple of months ago, and it has been one of the worst thing's to have to deal with so far. Here is the current configuration: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 CPU: AMD Athlon II x4 635 RAM: 2 x 2GB Corsair Dominator GT 1600MHz (CMD4GX3M2A1600C8) Hard Drives: G-Skill 64GB SSD, 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 HDD DVD Drive: Lite-On 24x DVD-RW Graphics Card: MSI Nvidia 1GB GTX 280 (Factory Overclocked) Sound Card: Creative SoundBlaster 5.1 VX Power Supply: 550W Thermaltake EVO Blue (75% Efficiency) CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Max Orb Case: Antec Six-Hundred w/ all fan slots full. Keyboard: Razer Lycosa Mouse: Razer Deathadder v2 OS: Windows 7 x64 No matter what I do to it, it doesn’t seem to work perfectly. The system will randomly freeze in Windows. By randomly, I mean whenever.. While booting into the OS, while the system is idling, sometimes in-game, sometimes when converting video, sometimes when I open a program, whatever, whenever. I haven’t attempted to overclock it at all yet, as it would be pointless on an already unstable system. I feel like I have eliminated all issues other than the CPU, or power supply.. I was wondering if you guys had any idea what might be the case. Here is what I have done so far: • Removed Sound Card • Installed on the HDD rather than the SSD, also installed on 2 other HDD’s (Maxtor DiamondMax 21, and another 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11) • Tried installing Windows XP SP2, Windows 7 x86, and Ubuntu 10.04 rather than Windows 7 x64 • Tried using my old Radeon x700 Pro, instead of the GTX 280 (Thus testing the extra graphics card power cabling from the PSU) • Tried using different RAM configurations (1 x 2GB of the Corsair, 1 and 2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper 1600GHz (OCZ3RPR1600GK)) • Tried the ram in all different RAM slots • Tried using different keyboards and a mouse (Razer Arctosa, and a generic PS/2 keyboard and mouse) • Tried the stock CPU heatsink (CPU has never gone above 40-50C degrees, averages 25C degrees with Thermaltake cooler) • Replaced the motherboard with an ASUS M4A87TD EVO, still no luck. • Disconnected the DVD Drive and installed off a USB One other thing I should mention, is that with the Gigabyte motherboard, sometimes the system would just crash and reboot before I even got to the stage of booting off the Windows disk. So as you can see, I’ve been through a lot of avenues to try and sort this out. It has worked with an OS installed for a while, but still, I would get that annoying intermittent system freeze. My best guess is that It could be a problem with the CPU, but please let me know if you have any solutions MUCH Appreciated, Niv
A couple more suggestions: - test the RAM with memtest - lower the RAM clocks in BIOS - try the RAM in a friends PC - make sure the exact RAM art number complies with supported RAM brands in the supported list of RAM vendors of the motherboard (damn, that's a knotty sentence right there ) - run prime95 (i.e. stresstest your CPU - especially mathematical operations should be able to uncover CPU faults) Best of luck, man. I'd hate having put together a new PC and then just dealing w/ bs like this....
Code: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001089.htm Code: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000605.htm Two useful links. Best of luck!
