- Jan 5, 2014
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After doing tons of research on here and reading the excellent 965 guides/information available I finally have to post. I have an issue with crashing which I cannot recreate and is hard to explain. Essentially whatever game I am playing, could be BF4, splinter cell black list, or even DOTA2 will eventually cause a crash.
The crash results in a screen freeze, game not responding dialogue from windows, and then when back to desktop a bunch of weird colors, like random pixels decided to change color and the screen will flash a bit. Shot in the dark but it kind of looks like the rainbow color issue that age of empires had a long time ago when you alt+tab it then bring it back up. Things like google chrome will crash and be unable to reopen unless I restart the computer. I am overclocked to 3.8ghz with a x19 multiplier with my 965 BE but can run prime95 fine without issue unless I do the large RAM test which causes a rounding error on worker 4, but no major issues. So to be clear I CAN run games fine and never get the BSOD with my current OC, just this weird crash. I have no issues with cooling, I get up to mid 40's under full load gaming on my CPU and low 50's on my gpu.
I have tried to push to 4.0ghz but get the BSOD so figured it was a memory limitation and makes me think I am right on the border right now at 3,8ghz with it. I have tried setting the voltage to a steady 1.5V, timing seems to be fine, and memtest gives no errors. Everything to me points to RAM but I can't figure out what it is! I was running 16gb of the listed ram but pulled two out to try 8gb since I read that the 965 sometimes doesn't like that much RAM. Now just recently after this I got a dialogue crash playing BF4 telling me that insufficient memory was available. I have played with voltages and changing the FSB and reducing my multiplier to try to achieve more stability but always get the BSOD when I fiddle with the FSB. I was running a gtx 550ti but recently upraded to a gtx 660 to see if my GPU was an issue and it was time for an upgrade.
Sorry for the lengthy post but trying to be as clear and concise as possible, please let me know if any more info is needed.Thanks for any help or insight!
Just in case it doesn't show up here are my specs
-AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE C3 125W @ 3.8ghz
-AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE C3 125W @ 3.8ghz
-Samsung 840 EVO SSD 256GB
-MSI 870A-G54
-EVGA GTX 660
-Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1333 4x2GB
-CM Hyper 212 Plus using x2 SP120
-CM 500W PSU
-CM 430 ELite with Corsair x2 AF120 and x1 AF140
Has anyone experienced this weird crash and have any suggestions?
The crash results in a screen freeze, game not responding dialogue from windows, and then when back to desktop a bunch of weird colors, like random pixels decided to change color and the screen will flash a bit. Shot in the dark but it kind of looks like the rainbow color issue that age of empires had a long time ago when you alt+tab it then bring it back up. Things like google chrome will crash and be unable to reopen unless I restart the computer. I am overclocked to 3.8ghz with a x19 multiplier with my 965 BE but can run prime95 fine without issue unless I do the large RAM test which causes a rounding error on worker 4, but no major issues. So to be clear I CAN run games fine and never get the BSOD with my current OC, just this weird crash. I have no issues with cooling, I get up to mid 40's under full load gaming on my CPU and low 50's on my gpu.
I have tried to push to 4.0ghz but get the BSOD so figured it was a memory limitation and makes me think I am right on the border right now at 3,8ghz with it. I have tried setting the voltage to a steady 1.5V, timing seems to be fine, and memtest gives no errors. Everything to me points to RAM but I can't figure out what it is! I was running 16gb of the listed ram but pulled two out to try 8gb since I read that the 965 sometimes doesn't like that much RAM. Now just recently after this I got a dialogue crash playing BF4 telling me that insufficient memory was available. I have played with voltages and changing the FSB and reducing my multiplier to try to achieve more stability but always get the BSOD when I fiddle with the FSB. I was running a gtx 550ti but recently upraded to a gtx 660 to see if my GPU was an issue and it was time for an upgrade.
Sorry for the lengthy post but trying to be as clear and concise as possible, please let me know if any more info is needed.Thanks for any help or insight!
Just in case it doesn't show up here are my specs
-AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE C3 125W @ 3.8ghz
-AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE C3 125W @ 3.8ghz
-Samsung 840 EVO SSD 256GB
-MSI 870A-G54
-EVGA GTX 660
-Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1333 4x2GB
-CM Hyper 212 Plus using x2 SP120
-CM 500W PSU
-CM 430 ELite with Corsair x2 AF120 and x1 AF140
Has anyone experienced this weird crash and have any suggestions?
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