Home built shutdowns

Michaelkeating

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Hi guys,

You were very helpful to me in building my first rig ever. It worked great for well over a month but now randomly shuts down when playing SWTOR. I looked around at the error message and learned that heat can be a problem. I installed Speedfan and my CPU and GPU seem to be fine.

What else should I be doing for the error below...

A fatal hardware error has occurred.

Component: AMD Northbridge
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: HyperTransport Watchdog Timeout Error
Processor ID: 0

The details view of this entry contains further information.

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger" Guid="{C26C4F3C-3F66-4E99-8F8A-39405CFED220}" />
<EventID>20</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-10-12T16:19:29.700505000Z" />
<EventRecordID>9888</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{ECE2A7B2-4710-4500-85F1-DEF70FE72114}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1772" ThreadID="3448" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>NewOffice-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="ErrorSource">3</Data>
<Data Name="ApicId">0</Data>
<Data Name="MCABank">4</Data>
<Data Name="MciStat">0xfe00000000070f0f</Data>
<Data Name="MciAddr">0xfeb86844</Data>
<Data Name="MciMisc">0xc00a0fff01000000</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorType">7</Data>
<Data Name="Length">928</Data>
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</EventData>
</Event>
 
Solution
Need make and model of: motherboard, video card(GPU), power supply (PSU).

Also, are all of your drivers and Windows up to date? Are you overclocking anything (CPU, GPU, memory)?

Issues like you are describing are often heat and/or power related.

Michaelkeating

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Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 9/1/2013 8:20:46 PM No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
3.50 gigahertz AMD FX-6300 Six-Core
288 kilobyte primary memory cache
6144 kilobyte secondary memory cache
8192 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (3 total)
Hyper-threaded (6 total) Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M LX PLUS Rev X.0x
Serial Number: 130208169500216
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1302 11/14/2012
Drives Memory Modules c,d
500.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
428.00 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ASUS DRW-24B1ST a ATA Device [Optical drive]

WDC WD5000AAKX-60U6AA0 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCC2EJL01072, rev 18.01H18, SMART Status: Healthy 8176 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 4096 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 4096 MB

It had been working fine. The only thing I've done is activate WIndows (somehow I missed the 25 digit code when I originally installed and it was warning me that I might be a victim of piracy)
 

COLGeek

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Need make and model of: motherboard, video card(GPU), power supply (PSU).

Also, are all of your drivers and Windows up to date? Are you overclocking anything (CPU, GPU, memory)?

Issues like you are describing are often heat and/or power related.
 
Solution

Michaelkeating

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Motherboard is Asus M5A78L-M LX Plus AM3+ AMD 760G 2xDDR3 mATX
PSU is PSU CORSAIR|500W CX500 R
GPU is VGA POWERCOLOR|AX7770 1GBD5-HE R

I think my drivers are current, at least they are no different than when the system worked fine for a month or so.

I am not overclocking anything.

 

Michaelkeating

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I had some time today to experiment and learned some new things.

I have gotten the ASUS power surge warning on reboot now a couple of times. I did not notice it before but I didn't know to look for it.

I turned the power surge protection off on the MB and the system shut down again after about 15 minutes.