I am finally upgrading an aging i7920 to the Haswell system and I have been having some strange issues with it. Bootup went fine, I was able to get into bios and nothing weird on the Q codes so all seemed fine. BIOS is not reporting any overheating and all the memory is showing as being there. Was able to get windows installed with no problem and all seemed well. When I was trying to install the rest of the system software, drivers etc I started to get these random lockups where everything just freezes and the video gets all scrambled and flashing.
Since it had onboard video my first idea was to try my old discrete video card, same thing happened with that so that was not the problem.
Next step was to swap the motherboard as this seemed to be the logical solution, again no weird Q codes and everything posts fine but getting the same problem. This means the MB was not the problem.
Power supply is 650 W and was working fine in my old system as were the drives, memory, etc.
This would leave either the CPU or the RAM or monitor being the problem. Since it doesn't error and I was able to get windows installed and running my guess is it's not the CPU and even though it's very unlikely I tested another monitor both on the HDMI and the DVI ports same issues there.
My ram is DDR3 Patriot that is not officially supported on the ASUS Compatiblity list but other then seeing it as 1066 rather then 1333 RAM it seems to be fine.
This is the specs on the RAM Patriot PVT36G1333LLK doesn't matter if I try on stick or all 4 it still crashes. 6 Years ago this was pretty good RAM but now its probably not that great.
My system is a 4770k along with a ASUS Z87 Pro latest bios updated.
Even though the RAM seems to be fine is that the problem or would it be the CPU ? What about one of the hard drives or the DVD drive ?
Thanks
Since it had onboard video my first idea was to try my old discrete video card, same thing happened with that so that was not the problem.
Next step was to swap the motherboard as this seemed to be the logical solution, again no weird Q codes and everything posts fine but getting the same problem. This means the MB was not the problem.
Power supply is 650 W and was working fine in my old system as were the drives, memory, etc.
This would leave either the CPU or the RAM or monitor being the problem. Since it doesn't error and I was able to get windows installed and running my guess is it's not the CPU and even though it's very unlikely I tested another monitor both on the HDMI and the DVI ports same issues there.
My ram is DDR3 Patriot that is not officially supported on the ASUS Compatiblity list but other then seeing it as 1066 rather then 1333 RAM it seems to be fine.
This is the specs on the RAM Patriot PVT36G1333LLK doesn't matter if I try on stick or all 4 it still crashes. 6 Years ago this was pretty good RAM but now its probably not that great.
My system is a 4770k along with a ASUS Z87 Pro latest bios updated.
Even though the RAM seems to be fine is that the problem or would it be the CPU ? What about one of the hard drives or the DVD drive ?
Thanks
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