Hello.
I purchased some new parts some weeks ago. After I set everything up I had many problems with the computer. I would get blue screens after some time in prime95 and the bios would freeze.
Anyway, after the first day I didn't bother to test it with prime95 and have had no problems with it at all until today. I was playing BF3 when suddenly the whole computer froze and I had to restart it. This happened several times with the same game after that. Now I knew that I had not played very intensive games on my PC ever since I bought the new parts so I remembered the problem I had with prime95 and thought it must be because of all the load. But I know that the temperature of the processor never reaches 60 C so I thought I might test the ram.
I booted memtest86+ and got many of errors. Then I tested both RAM sticks individually and in different slots and got many errors. The thing is that I don't believe that both RAM sticks could be damaged so I looked through my BIOS and remembered that I had turned on fast boot several days earlier. So I turned it of and voila, no hangups and even OCCP which would make the computer hang up in under a minute worked without a problem.
I tested Prime95 again and it worked a bit longer than usual before the computer crashed. But this time I got a BSOD instead with the error CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT. I did some researching and found out that you usually get this error when you overclock your CPU. The thing is that I've not overclocked anything and yet I still get this error. I tested with Memtest86+ again and still got the same errors. I don't know if it's the motherboard, the CPU or the memory which is faulty.
My system:
New components
Intel i7 4770K
Asrock Z87 Extreme4
Corsair Vengeance Low Profile DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz CL10 2x8GB (CML16GX3M2A1600C10)
Samsung 840 250GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda 64MB 3TB
Antec Kühler H2O 620 V4
Old components:
Zotac GTX 560Ti OC
2x 640 GB Western Digital Harddrives
Fractal Design Tesla 650W
Windows 8 64-bit
I purchased some new parts some weeks ago. After I set everything up I had many problems with the computer. I would get blue screens after some time in prime95 and the bios would freeze.
Anyway, after the first day I didn't bother to test it with prime95 and have had no problems with it at all until today. I was playing BF3 when suddenly the whole computer froze and I had to restart it. This happened several times with the same game after that. Now I knew that I had not played very intensive games on my PC ever since I bought the new parts so I remembered the problem I had with prime95 and thought it must be because of all the load. But I know that the temperature of the processor never reaches 60 C so I thought I might test the ram.
I booted memtest86+ and got many of errors. Then I tested both RAM sticks individually and in different slots and got many errors. The thing is that I don't believe that both RAM sticks could be damaged so I looked through my BIOS and remembered that I had turned on fast boot several days earlier. So I turned it of and voila, no hangups and even OCCP which would make the computer hang up in under a minute worked without a problem.
I tested Prime95 again and it worked a bit longer than usual before the computer crashed. But this time I got a BSOD instead with the error CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT. I did some researching and found out that you usually get this error when you overclock your CPU. The thing is that I've not overclocked anything and yet I still get this error. I tested with Memtest86+ again and still got the same errors. I don't know if it's the motherboard, the CPU or the memory which is faulty.
My system:
New components
Intel i7 4770K
Asrock Z87 Extreme4
Corsair Vengeance Low Profile DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz CL10 2x8GB (CML16GX3M2A1600C10)
Samsung 840 250GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda 64MB 3TB
Antec Kühler H2O 620 V4
Old components:
Zotac GTX 560Ti OC
2x 640 GB Western Digital Harddrives
Fractal Design Tesla 650W
Windows 8 64-bit
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