Asus P8H77-V LE
Core i5 3570
4x4GB Corsair Vengeance
GTX 560ti 448
X-fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro
2x Intel SSD (1x 480gb 520 series which has Windows, 1x 160gb 320 series)
2x WD HDD
D-Link Wireless adapter
DVD/RW
Corsair 650w PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
I built this 2 days ago and it hasn’t been stable at all. The motherboard, CPU, RAM, and Intel 520 SSD are new, the other hardware has been working beautifully for years. This was the easiest, most problem free windows install I’ve done. The only bios settings I changed were AHCI sata mode and XMP memory. Windows update was also a breeze. Installing and updating Norton internet security had no problems either. I installed the drivers off the motherboard CD, the latest drivers for my soundcard that I was using in my previous rig, installed 308.xx drivers on the EVGA GeForce CD, used dxwebsetup to download and install every version of direct x ever released, installed latest D-Link driver from windows update, SSD’s were up to date and optimized according to Intel’s SSD utility.
So now that my system is good to go, I run windows experience index. It completes it just fine and I’m happy with the 7.8’s and 7.9’s. Then I try and run Heaven 4.0. Within a few seconds the sound emits static noise, pops, fizzles, and the computer locks up. It does this when I watch Youtube videos and Hulu videos too. Sometimes it does this right away, sometimes it works for a few minutes. I was able to get through the Heaven benchmark once. Sometimes the computer will run for a few seconds to a few minutes after the sound tweaks but it will always freeze. Sometimes the freeze will be accompanied by a loud sustained beep. There is no blue screen, the screen just freezes. I have to power down or hit the reset button. Also the wireless internet was 56K slow and would lose the connection. Before I had 4-5 bars and no problems.
What I’ve tried so far:
Eliminating sticks of RAM and using different slots.
Clocking the RAM down to 1333 instead of 1600
Disabling bios features one a time and leaving them disabled.
Using default bios settings (with exception of AHCI, otherwise I would BSOD at windows loading screen)
Updating bios from 0267 to 1001
My next ideas were to remove the GTX and use the integrated graphics. Also remove the sound card and use integrated audio. However before I could do that, the motherboard started reporting a CPU fan error on POST and wouldn’t let me into windows. In the bios, it said N/A for CPU fan speed even though the fan was spinning. CPU is at 30*C, MB is at 27*C. This is where I’m at. I suspect the motherboard but honestly I’ve never experienced this kind of instability.
Core i5 3570
4x4GB Corsair Vengeance
GTX 560ti 448
X-fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro
2x Intel SSD (1x 480gb 520 series which has Windows, 1x 160gb 320 series)
2x WD HDD
D-Link Wireless adapter
DVD/RW
Corsair 650w PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
I built this 2 days ago and it hasn’t been stable at all. The motherboard, CPU, RAM, and Intel 520 SSD are new, the other hardware has been working beautifully for years. This was the easiest, most problem free windows install I’ve done. The only bios settings I changed were AHCI sata mode and XMP memory. Windows update was also a breeze. Installing and updating Norton internet security had no problems either. I installed the drivers off the motherboard CD, the latest drivers for my soundcard that I was using in my previous rig, installed 308.xx drivers on the EVGA GeForce CD, used dxwebsetup to download and install every version of direct x ever released, installed latest D-Link driver from windows update, SSD’s were up to date and optimized according to Intel’s SSD utility.
So now that my system is good to go, I run windows experience index. It completes it just fine and I’m happy with the 7.8’s and 7.9’s. Then I try and run Heaven 4.0. Within a few seconds the sound emits static noise, pops, fizzles, and the computer locks up. It does this when I watch Youtube videos and Hulu videos too. Sometimes it does this right away, sometimes it works for a few minutes. I was able to get through the Heaven benchmark once. Sometimes the computer will run for a few seconds to a few minutes after the sound tweaks but it will always freeze. Sometimes the freeze will be accompanied by a loud sustained beep. There is no blue screen, the screen just freezes. I have to power down or hit the reset button. Also the wireless internet was 56K slow and would lose the connection. Before I had 4-5 bars and no problems.
What I’ve tried so far:
Eliminating sticks of RAM and using different slots.
Clocking the RAM down to 1333 instead of 1600
Disabling bios features one a time and leaving them disabled.
Using default bios settings (with exception of AHCI, otherwise I would BSOD at windows loading screen)
Updating bios from 0267 to 1001
My next ideas were to remove the GTX and use the integrated graphics. Also remove the sound card and use integrated audio. However before I could do that, the motherboard started reporting a CPU fan error on POST and wouldn’t let me into windows. In the bios, it said N/A for CPU fan speed even though the fan was spinning. CPU is at 30*C, MB is at 27*C. This is where I’m at. I suspect the motherboard but honestly I’ve never experienced this kind of instability.
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