I just built my first pc, so I am no expert, but I have been researching for a number of months and feel I have a firm grasp on hardware.
Specs:
i7-4770k w/ 212 evo cooler
Asus z87 pro
gtx 770
16gb corsair xm3
seasonic 650w (60 plus gold) psu
plexor 128 gb ssd
Seagate 2tb hdd
Now here's where I think I went wrong: I noticed that my RAM was running at 1333mhz in the bios instead of its intended 1600, so I manually changed it in the ai tweaker bios. Now, I really don't know what I'm doing, I merely changed one setting, which I don't think is how you're supposed to do that. The PC ran like a dream for the first day or so and then I got a blue screen, Windows has to shut down because it has detected a problem, etc. I rebooted and the computer froze again on the login screen. So I kept gettingThis kept happening to the point where I couldn't even trouble-shoot the software. So I reformatted. Then I couldn't even get through that process without a system crash, so I went back into the bios and restored defaults, reformatted again, reinstalled windows.
Well, I thought I had solved the problem, because it ran like a dream for another day. But again, I got the same blue screen and crash a couple times. I'm now running Memtest on each stick individually (already tried both together and got 0 errors.) Any other thoughts? Maybe the SSD is failing? (I did drop it on the floor when I took it out of the package for the first time.) BTW: the motherboard gives me an error code when I boot now which translates to, "legacy boot event."
Appreciate the help!
Specs:
i7-4770k w/ 212 evo cooler
Asus z87 pro
gtx 770
16gb corsair xm3
seasonic 650w (60 plus gold) psu
plexor 128 gb ssd
Seagate 2tb hdd
Now here's where I think I went wrong: I noticed that my RAM was running at 1333mhz in the bios instead of its intended 1600, so I manually changed it in the ai tweaker bios. Now, I really don't know what I'm doing, I merely changed one setting, which I don't think is how you're supposed to do that. The PC ran like a dream for the first day or so and then I got a blue screen, Windows has to shut down because it has detected a problem, etc. I rebooted and the computer froze again on the login screen. So I kept gettingThis kept happening to the point where I couldn't even trouble-shoot the software. So I reformatted. Then I couldn't even get through that process without a system crash, so I went back into the bios and restored defaults, reformatted again, reinstalled windows.
Well, I thought I had solved the problem, because it ran like a dream for another day. But again, I got the same blue screen and crash a couple times. I'm now running Memtest on each stick individually (already tried both together and got 0 errors.) Any other thoughts? Maybe the SSD is failing? (I did drop it on the floor when I took it out of the package for the first time.) BTW: the motherboard gives me an error code when I boot now which translates to, "legacy boot event."
Appreciate the help!
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