Hi guys,
I'm getting back into the world of self builds, and as such this is my first ever post at tom's hardware. Hopefully I can stay and help others after a little more experience! Anyway, I have just finished my first personal build, since I only recently really had the money to do so and there seem to be a few teething problems. I'll keep it short.
My build:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K (currently at stock)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H
Memory: G.Skill Trident X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti (Superclocked with ACX cooler)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 750W
Well, I was originally running this set up with no graphics card for about a month and it was stress testing ok, I didn't do any particularly long stresses, but I was at least getting through a few hours of prime95 and intel burn with no hitches. I have just got the stage where i want to properly stress test it, but when running intel burn test, the screen flickers and I get the classic "video driver has stopped responding and has successfully recovered", which I know can be caused buy a number of things, not only the graphics card. It does this in succession, sometimes with only 10 seconds break before the next. I have also gotten three blue screens from IBT (with graphics card in), the first minidump pointed to the graphics driver and the second two to 'ntoskrnl.exe'. Which means I may have two points of instability in my system right?
The driver not responding and recovering ONLY seems to happen during IBT, which is what strikes me as odd, since the GPU is not under any stress. I can get through games without it crashing on me... I feel like it could be a PSU problem? The graphics card cannot get enough stable power to power itself when the CPU is under so much stress?
If anyone has any ideas on both the graphics crash and the ntoskrnl.exe, it would be greatly appreciated. I have clean installed the graphics drivers to no avail. The 'ntoskernl.exe' is to do with memory allocation as far as I can tell and I am unsure of how to diagnose my SSD. The samsung software for the SSD stated that the drive is ok, but there is no in depth diagnostic that I can find. I am also running mem test right now, for the ram, for a little more insight.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Harry
I'm getting back into the world of self builds, and as such this is my first ever post at tom's hardware. Hopefully I can stay and help others after a little more experience! Anyway, I have just finished my first personal build, since I only recently really had the money to do so and there seem to be a few teething problems. I'll keep it short.
My build:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K (currently at stock)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H
Memory: G.Skill Trident X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti (Superclocked with ACX cooler)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 750W
Well, I was originally running this set up with no graphics card for about a month and it was stress testing ok, I didn't do any particularly long stresses, but I was at least getting through a few hours of prime95 and intel burn with no hitches. I have just got the stage where i want to properly stress test it, but when running intel burn test, the screen flickers and I get the classic "video driver has stopped responding and has successfully recovered", which I know can be caused buy a number of things, not only the graphics card. It does this in succession, sometimes with only 10 seconds break before the next. I have also gotten three blue screens from IBT (with graphics card in), the first minidump pointed to the graphics driver and the second two to 'ntoskrnl.exe'. Which means I may have two points of instability in my system right?
The driver not responding and recovering ONLY seems to happen during IBT, which is what strikes me as odd, since the GPU is not under any stress. I can get through games without it crashing on me... I feel like it could be a PSU problem? The graphics card cannot get enough stable power to power itself when the CPU is under so much stress?
If anyone has any ideas on both the graphics crash and the ntoskrnl.exe, it would be greatly appreciated. I have clean installed the graphics drivers to no avail. The 'ntoskernl.exe' is to do with memory allocation as far as I can tell and I am unsure of how to diagnose my SSD. The samsung software for the SSD stated that the drive is ok, but there is no in depth diagnostic that I can find. I am also running mem test right now, for the ram, for a little more insight.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Harry
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