Components’ of the PC in question
CPU: AMD FX-8320
MOBA: M5A99FX Pro R2.0
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x4gb DDR3, 1600
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 570GTX with latest drivers.
Power Supply: Corsair TX750
Types of tests I’ve done: Memtest86, Prime95, HDD Health and FurMark benchmark test (which also causes the PC to freeze instantly)
Nothing is OC'ed
All components that are listed are brand new and straight out of the box.
When I start a heavy graphics intensive game or benchmark test such as Furmark or Heaven the PC will freeze withing a few seconds. Sometimes the freeze is instant from the time I open the program, other times its after several mins of playing the game. I’ve adjusting settings of the game doesn't appear to affect the amount of time until the pc freezes. It appears to be completely random. No other freezes have occurred in non-graphics intense games, watching movies, or the pc just idling for days. I’ve also attempted several other games which also cause the system to freeze. Skyrim, Rifts, Wargame Air land Battle etc. A Freeze also occurred while using prime95 after about 7 cycles.
When the PC freezes it’s completely unresponsive and must be hard rebooted. The event viewer doesn't show any critical errors after a restart. My first thought was my pc must be overheating and stressing the CPU. Well, I installed a large heat sink and reapplied the thermal paste. The freeze still occurs. The CPU temp never reaches higher than 36C. I thought maybe it’s a software issue. I've undated all drivers I could possibly find, even the USB 3.0 drivers; this still didn't fix the issue. I then thought maybe I got a dead GPU, so I installed a known working graphics card into my pc that freezes and ditto. The freeze still occurs within a few seconds of starting a game. I then swapped that GPU from the pc that freezes and installed it into another pc and that GPU works just fine with no issues at all. Next I tested my ram with memtest86 and I let it run for 20 cycles with no issues. I had read at this point that sometimes ASUS MOBAS have issues with certain types of ram. So I swapped out my current ram (Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x4gb DDR3, 1600) to some ram I have in my other PC. My other PC works with no issues while, this PC continues to freeze with new ram installed. I thought I might have a DOA motherboard so I received a replacement yet the same issue still occurs with the newly replaced MOBA. I then triple checked again all manufactures specs to insure system compatibility. Finally, I just removed the little com cap and rest that, of course, it didn't work either. I rolled back GPU driver also, nothing still the same frustrating freeze.
I haven't tried to reinstalled windows yet. I also haven't swapped out PSU or CPU yet since other PC is a Intel.
I then started searching through threads on this site and others. I found several similar problems to mine without any solution.
At this point I’ve exhausted all known solutions to the problem known to me. Ive tried to cover all things I could think off before asking for help on here.
3/26/14 New CPU and MOBO installed same issue continues.
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