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Razathor

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Greetings everyone, I have tried researching the specifics of my situation and haven't yet found anything of much use. I've recently assembled a new system for which I flashed the bios before doing anything else. It has performed wonderfully thus far, with one small concern. I am getting visual artifacts during post, none in BIOS, and none in windows at all; nor does it happen every single reboot. It seems to be random. I will stress however that when I say artifacts, I mean complete visual chaos with it looking like an old tube TV with bad reception. It seems to only happen during that Windows loading screen, but it's not happening every time. Sometimes it is only for a second, and as soon as it loads windows, there are no artifacts whatsoever.

As you will see in my specs, I am not using a GPU at the moment, merely utilizing 4771 HD until my GTX780 TI arrives next week. I'm not OCing anything other than adjusting the RAM settings to their spec frequency. I haven't been gaming at all, just optimizing/updating. I do have the latest Intel HD drivers, chipset drivers, LAN etc.. I was very careful installing everything, used anti-static wristband and didn't spill/smudge any thermal paste, and the coating was thin to moderate leaving no gaps on the CPU. Noctua went in nice and smooth and screwed in evenly.

The PC is connected temporarily by an HDMI cable and will be DVI once the GPU arrives. I have been in and out of XMP mode to see if anything changes and there are no other signs of issues, temps are fine, and I completed windows memory check with no bad ram reports. Just not sure what else to try, or if I should worry that I need to RMA something. More stress testing tonight after work. Any advice, suggestions are greatly appreciated.


System Specs are as follows:

MB: Asus Maximus IV Hero
RAM: G.skill Ripjaws x 16GB 2.8GB 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM Model F3-2133C9D-16GXH
CPU: Intel 1150 4771
PSU: Seasonic X 850 Watt
GPU: None yet.
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH- U14S
HD: Seagate Barricuda (temporary) 1TB.
WIN7 64
 
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Roland Of Gilead
First time seeing an I7 4771!!! Interesting, didn't even know it existed. Same as the 4770 bar a 100mhz increase on base clock @ 3.5ghz Nice :)

Anywho, without wanting to ask the most obvious question, have you tried another cable? Is the artefact repeatable .ie does it happen the exact same time each time, and in the same manner?

edit: also I know you don't have your 780ti yet, but can you get a lend of any discrete GPU just to try and see if that makes a difference. Any old PCI-e card should do for testing purposes.
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First time seeing an I7 4771!!! Interesting, didn't even know it existed. Same as the 4770 bar a 100mhz increase on base clock @ 3.5ghz Nice :)

Anywho, without wanting to ask the most obvious question, have you tried another cable? Is the artefact repeatable .ie does it happen the exact same time each time, and in the same manner?

edit: also I know you don't have your 780ti yet, but can you get a lend of any discrete GPU just to try and see if that makes a difference. Any old PCI-e card should do for testing purposes.
 
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Jose Navarro Vicente

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Make a disk partition and try to install there a fresh new Windows, then boot that one and see if artifacts keep showing. If they do, then must be something hardware-related, if they do not... then it must be something software-related with the first installation.

Good luck!
 
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Razathor

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Thanks guys. As for the GPU lend, the only other one I have is an old radeon hd 5850 but it causes systems to stutter, I'm just too stubborn to toss it lol. As for consistency or cycle, it seems random. I will say it happened even from the very first boot into windows. Other times its only a quick flash, similar to the tiny little flash when you turn on an old cartridge console. I've only tried running minecraft, and it ran without a hitch. I can try something more intensive like Crysis 3 or something but I am not expecting much out of Intell HD 4600. The fact that it does this doesn't bother me in and of itself, but I'm just hoping it is not a sign of impending doom. I'm going to try swapping the HDMI cable tonight as that was also a good suggestion. I can also try the new windows partition, though I wonder if it would matter since it did it on the first boot anyway, aren't the drivers for these gpu laden chips native?
 
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Roland Of Gilead

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so did you have any success? Given how you've described it further, it sounds most likely a cable issue, as it's not exactly repeatable, and predictable. If the cable didn't work, it could be the HD GPU driver as ingtar mentioned. But, I would suspect, with a combination of new cable, new gtx780 and switching of the onboard GPU via the bios, it should rectify the issue. Keep us posted.

 
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Swapped out HDMI, and while there is still a minute flash, it changed/improved it drastically...sometimes there is no little flash at all. Still wonder if its normal, but its barely noticeable and sometimes doesn't happen at all... not sure if I should worry about it or not. Ordering gtx780ti wednesday, I suppose in the end that will tell for sure.
 
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I think that's as good a plan as any. Glad it made some difference, although not completely. As I mentioned, I would expect it to stop either way with new card, but if it doesn't be sure to post back.

Happy gaming with the 780ti BTW......I'm sooooo jealous :)
 
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Thanks man, believe me I don't get to build systems like this often lol, solely thanks to my tax return. The evident death of my Radeon HD 5850 upsets me, mainly because it was used hard for a good 4 years, I mean almost 24/7 at times and it simply would not die. One day when I was cleaning the dust out of it as I do periodically with all the components, I accidentally broke a fan blade... I knew that was like a slow cancer for the fan bearings, but it still lived for a good year or so after that. Anyway, to make a long story short, I managed to get XFX to send me a new heat sync and fan which went in smoothly, or so it seemed, I reapplied a little thermal paste to the GPU and it worked fine in my PC, but when I tried it in my son's AMD hexacore set up, it caused it to stutter something terrible. NOTHING worked, updates, bios, GPU driver, you name it. Put his old card back in and worked fine. I haven't really had the time to tinker with it, but can't quite bring myself to throw it away lol.
 
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:) yeah, tell me about it. I've had many a part die slowly over the years, and it is very difficult to say goodbye to some of our old tech. My penchant for holding on to old GPU's is still going strong. With a graveyard that includes,

Voodoo 3 3000 PCI
Geforce 256
Riva TNT 2
Geforce 2 GTS
R 9800pro
Geforce 4 TI 4600
GTX 260
All of them dead in one way or another (except the GTX260), but I love looking back on them. I can remember which games I played back in the day, and on what card!! haha. Ahh the memories! :)

 
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