Hello,
I have an odd problem that I've not been able to find a solution for on the internet.
on a cold boot, whilst playing any game, my FPS will be lower than expected. - also my PC will generate what I can only describe as the hiccups! - literally every 10-60 seconds the PC will freeze for about 2 seconds, with a buzzing sound, the FPS will drop to about 1-2 FPS during this time.
And this will continue to happen until I either get extremely annoyed with it and restart my PC, or if I try to ride it out, the hiccups get more and more frequent until my PC just locks up entirely.
I have tried almost everything to resolve this issue but so far no luck. This is what i've tried:
Replace Graphics Cards - went from 2x GTX 670 SLI to GTX 780 Ti (single, so I removed SLI and the Graphics cards are out of the equasion)
Tried new PSU
Updated Graphics drivers, multiple times (currently running on latest WHQLs)
Updated all motherboard drivers (chipset, sound, usb, etc)
Unplugged all USBs apart from mouse (I even removed the keyboard)
Updated motherboard bios to latest version
Removed CPU overclocks, put all back to default
all of these have not worked, the problem still persists!
now here's the weird part. - if I restart my PC ... it all works flawlessly!, until the next time I power the PC off for the day and turn it back on again the next day.
It's one of those niggling annoying things that is starting to drive me mad.
Now the only speculation that I've managed to come up with, is maybe my motherboard is at fault? - and more specifically, maybe the Gigabyte brand of motherboards is at fault?
Here's my reasoning: my girlfriend has an almost identical PC to mine, but instead of a Gigabyte G1. Sniper 3, she has an MSI motherboard... and she has had no problems with her PC what so ever!
Reasoning 2: we recently had a problem with her MSI motherboard (i flashed the wrong bios when updating and borked the board!) - and I purchased a standard Gigabyte motherboard as a replacement for her... low and behold, she has started to get the hiccuping problem on her PC! however it's no where near as bad as mine and only occurs very rarely.
now I have yet to try removing my motherboard, as that would/could require a whole re-install of windows which I'd rather not do. but so far the gigabyte motherboard is the only link I can think of?
Please tell me I'm wrong and that there's a fix for this that I've overlooked?
My PC Spec:
Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 motherboard
i7 2600K CPU (overclocks removed, otherwise usually @ 4.4ghz)
16GB G.Skill Ram
2x SSD Raid 0 + 1x 3TB HDD
Corsair AX850w PSU
1x GTX 780 Ti Graphics Card
Thanks.
I have an odd problem that I've not been able to find a solution for on the internet.
on a cold boot, whilst playing any game, my FPS will be lower than expected. - also my PC will generate what I can only describe as the hiccups! - literally every 10-60 seconds the PC will freeze for about 2 seconds, with a buzzing sound, the FPS will drop to about 1-2 FPS during this time.
And this will continue to happen until I either get extremely annoyed with it and restart my PC, or if I try to ride it out, the hiccups get more and more frequent until my PC just locks up entirely.
I have tried almost everything to resolve this issue but so far no luck. This is what i've tried:
Replace Graphics Cards - went from 2x GTX 670 SLI to GTX 780 Ti (single, so I removed SLI and the Graphics cards are out of the equasion)
Tried new PSU
Updated Graphics drivers, multiple times (currently running on latest WHQLs)
Updated all motherboard drivers (chipset, sound, usb, etc)
Unplugged all USBs apart from mouse (I even removed the keyboard)
Updated motherboard bios to latest version
Removed CPU overclocks, put all back to default
all of these have not worked, the problem still persists!
now here's the weird part. - if I restart my PC ... it all works flawlessly!, until the next time I power the PC off for the day and turn it back on again the next day.
It's one of those niggling annoying things that is starting to drive me mad.
Now the only speculation that I've managed to come up with, is maybe my motherboard is at fault? - and more specifically, maybe the Gigabyte brand of motherboards is at fault?
Here's my reasoning: my girlfriend has an almost identical PC to mine, but instead of a Gigabyte G1. Sniper 3, she has an MSI motherboard... and she has had no problems with her PC what so ever!
Reasoning 2: we recently had a problem with her MSI motherboard (i flashed the wrong bios when updating and borked the board!) - and I purchased a standard Gigabyte motherboard as a replacement for her... low and behold, she has started to get the hiccuping problem on her PC! however it's no where near as bad as mine and only occurs very rarely.
now I have yet to try removing my motherboard, as that would/could require a whole re-install of windows which I'd rather not do. but so far the gigabyte motherboard is the only link I can think of?
Please tell me I'm wrong and that there's a fix for this that I've overlooked?
My PC Spec:
Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 motherboard
i7 2600K CPU (overclocks removed, otherwise usually @ 4.4ghz)
16GB G.Skill Ram
2x SSD Raid 0 + 1x 3TB HDD
Corsair AX850w PSU
1x GTX 780 Ti Graphics Card
Thanks.
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