i5 2500k
EVGA gtx 680
Asrock p67 extreme 4 gen 3
ddr 1600 g.skill ripjaws (16 Gb)
Until recently I had my processor set at 4.6 Ghz via the 4.6 turbo settings in my UEFI bios. While I was playing Planetside 2 this morning, my pc crashed. The screen went black and turned off, my speakers produced a long, crackly "wooshing" sound. After that, I tried to power the machine back up, but it wouldn't start. The power LED and fans would turn on, turn off, turn on, turn off ad nauseum. the only way to stop the cycle was to either turn off my power supply or unplug it.
After some troubleshooting I found that after I took out all the ram sticks, and placed one back in the first DIM, it booted. After that I was able to plug in all four sticks, and it still booted. I had to reinstall Windows 7, the computer wouldn't boot into the O/S and kept asking me to run the repair utility, which did nothing.
After I installed Windows 7, the computer ran fine for several hours, but after I dropped into a game of Payday 2, the same thing happened again. This time I only had to take the ram out and reinstall it to boot, an install of Windows 7 was not necessary.
Is there any way to find out what the issue is?
EVGA gtx 680
Asrock p67 extreme 4 gen 3
ddr 1600 g.skill ripjaws (16 Gb)
Until recently I had my processor set at 4.6 Ghz via the 4.6 turbo settings in my UEFI bios. While I was playing Planetside 2 this morning, my pc crashed. The screen went black and turned off, my speakers produced a long, crackly "wooshing" sound. After that, I tried to power the machine back up, but it wouldn't start. The power LED and fans would turn on, turn off, turn on, turn off ad nauseum. the only way to stop the cycle was to either turn off my power supply or unplug it.
After some troubleshooting I found that after I took out all the ram sticks, and placed one back in the first DIM, it booted. After that I was able to plug in all four sticks, and it still booted. I had to reinstall Windows 7, the computer wouldn't boot into the O/S and kept asking me to run the repair utility, which did nothing.
After I installed Windows 7, the computer ran fine for several hours, but after I dropped into a game of Payday 2, the same thing happened again. This time I only had to take the ram out and reinstall it to boot, an install of Windows 7 was not necessary.
Is there any way to find out what the issue is?