- Feb 3, 2012
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Well i recently started noticing bad performance from my computer, and discovered that one of my HD's was on his way out, S.M.A.R.T was showing that it was under "Caution" status, so i replaced it with an SSD and two 3T drives configured to run under Raid 1.
I installed the OS on the SSD and stated to run into more problems, crashes in skyrim, sound stutters in windows and some BSOD . . so i decided dig deeper and ran stress and memory tests on my PC and all the memory checked out ok so i moved on to the stress test and noticed that my PC was throwing CPU errors so i took the PC apart (Experienced not the first time) and applied a new layer of thermal paste thinking it was getting too hot and it's been ages since i've done it and attached all the memory sticks (note that i had them for over 4 years now and everything was working flawlessly before hand) and ran the tests again and failed OCCT but passed PRIME95 for 8 hours.
I was worried about the cpu but decided to try and taking out the memory and test it by adding a stick after stick and for my big surprise it passed the test, and with one paticular stick it didn't . . although all sticks passed the memtest . . then my computer stopped booting at all and long story short one of the mem slots just stopped working, i was very gentle and didn't break anything and even after trying everything cleaned it with a special computer board cleaning spray thing.
After all the fuss i decided to give up and just not use the slot because i had one stick that just wouldn't let me pass the OCCT test, so i thought i'd leave the stick out . . and 12gb is still more then enough.
About three days passe and yesterday i turned it on and it refused to boot (I have an Asus Sabertooth P67 Board) so i decided to use my boards, MEMok function and it booted my memory with 1000mhz speed and my default memorie's speed is 1600 . . i was very surprised but even more when windows tried to boot it gave me a bluescreen and refused to load, so after a lot of fuss i changed the Turbo mode feature (OC in other words) from Auto to X.M.P mode that has a profile set for some mem and cpu models and vendors (at least that's what i understood it does) and it booted up under 1600mhz just fine . . and windows right after it.
Now today i turned it on and it gave me the chasis intrude error, i am pretty sure it's a false possitive i haven't touched my hardware and have no loose wires inside the case then i tried to reboot and it came up again no problem . . without any changes.
This whole story has been stretched over for a few weeks and i'm just afraid to turn it off . . my PC passes all the tests and benchmarks including MEMtest, OCCT, Prime95 and 3Dmark and Heaven Benchmark, no errors and smooth performance but i'm just dreading turning him on, i have a friend who is a computer technician working in a store and came by and took a look on my PC and checked for damage and settings and said that everything is looking good and that a lifespan of a computer is about 4-5 years (my PC about 4.5) and that if everything's running fine just leave it as it is, but it ran ok just a week ago on the Auto OC settings and without touching it, it started doing problems untill i changed it to X.M.P and random chasis errors, am i just being too picky about all of this wanting my system to be "perfect" or does it sound to you like i have a serious problem ?
Sorry for the wall of text and any advice would be greatly appreciated !
Hardware :
Intel i7 2600 Sandybridge 3.40ghz
16gb Corsair Vengance RAM 1600mhz 9 9 9 24
Asus Sabertooth P67 MOBO
680 GTX 2gb Gigabyte Windforce
OCZ Vector SSD 128gb
1T Black Caviar
x2 3T Red Caviar (Raid1)
I installed the OS on the SSD and stated to run into more problems, crashes in skyrim, sound stutters in windows and some BSOD . . so i decided dig deeper and ran stress and memory tests on my PC and all the memory checked out ok so i moved on to the stress test and noticed that my PC was throwing CPU errors so i took the PC apart (Experienced not the first time) and applied a new layer of thermal paste thinking it was getting too hot and it's been ages since i've done it and attached all the memory sticks (note that i had them for over 4 years now and everything was working flawlessly before hand) and ran the tests again and failed OCCT but passed PRIME95 for 8 hours.
I was worried about the cpu but decided to try and taking out the memory and test it by adding a stick after stick and for my big surprise it passed the test, and with one paticular stick it didn't . . although all sticks passed the memtest . . then my computer stopped booting at all and long story short one of the mem slots just stopped working, i was very gentle and didn't break anything and even after trying everything cleaned it with a special computer board cleaning spray thing.
After all the fuss i decided to give up and just not use the slot because i had one stick that just wouldn't let me pass the OCCT test, so i thought i'd leave the stick out . . and 12gb is still more then enough.
About three days passe and yesterday i turned it on and it refused to boot (I have an Asus Sabertooth P67 Board) so i decided to use my boards, MEMok function and it booted my memory with 1000mhz speed and my default memorie's speed is 1600 . . i was very surprised but even more when windows tried to boot it gave me a bluescreen and refused to load, so after a lot of fuss i changed the Turbo mode feature (OC in other words) from Auto to X.M.P mode that has a profile set for some mem and cpu models and vendors (at least that's what i understood it does) and it booted up under 1600mhz just fine . . and windows right after it.
Now today i turned it on and it gave me the chasis intrude error, i am pretty sure it's a false possitive i haven't touched my hardware and have no loose wires inside the case then i tried to reboot and it came up again no problem . . without any changes.
This whole story has been stretched over for a few weeks and i'm just afraid to turn it off . . my PC passes all the tests and benchmarks including MEMtest, OCCT, Prime95 and 3Dmark and Heaven Benchmark, no errors and smooth performance but i'm just dreading turning him on, i have a friend who is a computer technician working in a store and came by and took a look on my PC and checked for damage and settings and said that everything is looking good and that a lifespan of a computer is about 4-5 years (my PC about 4.5) and that if everything's running fine just leave it as it is, but it ran ok just a week ago on the Auto OC settings and without touching it, it started doing problems untill i changed it to X.M.P and random chasis errors, am i just being too picky about all of this wanting my system to be "perfect" or does it sound to you like i have a serious problem ?
Sorry for the wall of text and any advice would be greatly appreciated !
Hardware :
Intel i7 2600 Sandybridge 3.40ghz
16gb Corsair Vengance RAM 1600mhz 9 9 9 24
Asus Sabertooth P67 MOBO
680 GTX 2gb Gigabyte Windforce
OCZ Vector SSD 128gb
1T Black Caviar
x2 3T Red Caviar (Raid1)
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