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PeppermintCandy

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Hello

Yesterday randomly, whilst playing Deus Ex, about 2 hours in my whole system froze, forcing me to reboot from the power switch. It did it twice yesterday, but today it has gotten way more intense, it now occurs from 3min to 1hour max. I have tested several games from Borderlands 2 maxed out to Starbound.

Using 680 in SLI, I have tested both cards individually and in SLI with the same outcome. There does not seem to be any specific triggers when in the game, but it only occurs whilst playing a game, no matter how intense the game is.

I have tried validating windows files, reinstalling and downgrading nvidia drivers. There are no other drivers i know of that need updating. I reseated the cards, the sli bridge and the ram. There is also no hardware changes, i have no idea how this came about and seen as the 2 card' hardware doesn't seem to be the problem i have no idea.

Oh and temps are fine too, cpu is watercooled 60C max, gpu 1 stays under 80C and gpu2 under 73C

My specs:
i5-2500k @ 4.8Ghz
2x Corsair 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz
2x Gainward GTX 680(no overclock)
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
 
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bryonhowley

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Well first I would start testing with no overclock just to rule that out.
Second what PSU make/model do you have and how long have you had it? PSU can degrade over time and with the overclock and running 2 high end cards you could be limited on your +12 rail which can lead to system crashes.

I would rule all of this out before re-installing the OS that should only be a last resort when all else fails.
 
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PeppermintCandy

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Thanks for the reply

Im using a brand new HX850, used for a month. The overclock was sat at 4.5Ghz for over a year but seen as i upgraded to water cooling i boosted it to 4.8. With the cards, and overclock being stable for a month, seems strange it would decide to brake now, so sudden and so frequent.

*It crashed as i was typing this out, starbound running in the background.
 
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PeppermintCandy

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Without the overclock it still occurred, this time i noticed the sound was looping 2 seconds before the whole system froze.
 
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How did you overclock it?
You should reset the bios into default settings by removing the cmos battery and put back.
 
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PeppermintCandy

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tested both my sticks of ram and it still occurred, just reset bios and will get back to you
 
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PeppermintCandy

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Still does it after restoring bios to defaults. I discovered that waiting after the system crashes it pops up a BSOD, the past 6 times it occurred there was a mixture of these 3 error code, 0x000000F4, 0x0000007A and 0x0000003B. Having a look online all these codes have different causes, i have a feeling one piece of hardware in my system is the cause but i don't no how to determine which.

What i have done so far:
1. Reinstalled Windows 7 64-bit
2. Reinstalled all system drivers
3. Tested both graphics cards
4. Tested both RAM sticks

I am also using an ssd and hdd to play the games, but i have tested a game on both and it still occurs so i guess that rules out a dying hdd.

one more thing, it also crashes within one hour of launching the game, without fail.
 
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