- Apr 12, 2014
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So I've posted on a few threads about this but I don't know what to do, i don't know what i'm doing wrong if it's a hardware issue or a driver issue, more maybe something just isn't connected right.
Honestly this weekend I'm taking mostly everything apart and trying to find out what's going on, I didn't put the cpu in the motherboard, or connect any of the major wires my friend did that for me..so it's possible he did something wrong, idk.
But basically what was happening was I was getting random lockups where I couldn't do anything except shut down the computer manually. My mouse and keyboard didn't work and everything just completely locks up. Before I was getting blue screens, but now I just get the freezing (at least so far it's been about a week since I replaced the RAM and HDD).
I thought my old storage device was the problem or the RAM so I just replaced both, the RAM is the same brand Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600, but I got a WD Blue 1tb HDD instead of the Samsung SSD I had in there.
So after I replaced this two things, everything seemed fine for the past week, and then just today it started freezing on me again. While idle, and while gaming three times so far. No BSOD's yet but I'm waiting to see.
So all I can think now is that it must either be my mobo, processor, or psu. Now I'm gonna just get a different psu to try out in there because I needed an extra one anyway. But as far as the mobo and the processor go I don't want to trade those in if I don't have to, considering I'd have to get windows registration figured out with a new mobo which might be a hassle, idk never done it before.
So I'm trying to figure out which one of those three it could be. My temps are fine I ran stress tests and my cpu never goes about 50 at 100%, my gpu goes pretty damn high though around 70, but the cooling in my case isn't the greatest right now.
Voltages are
CPU Core AVG - 0.5
+3.3v AVG - 3.332
+5v AVG - 5.066
+12v AVG - 12.051
DIMM AVG - 1.488
now my RAM is rated for 1.5v 9-9-9-24 and I set the voltage at 1.5 manually but it won't run at 1.5 idk if that's a problem or not, but otherwise the RAM is set properly as far as I know.
If theres anymore info that would be helpful in figuring this out please let me know I'm happy to post it, but this is all I can think to put right now. I'm just trying to see if I can figure out exactly what is broken (if it's hardware) or not working properly (software, drivers). So I don't have to RMA the whole machine just to find out it was a software issue.
My Build
i5 4670k
Corsair H75 water cooler
MSI Z87-GD65
WD Blue 1tb HDD
EVGA GTX 660
Corsair Carbide 200r
Corsair CX750M
Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x4gb ddr3-1600 cl9
Honestly this weekend I'm taking mostly everything apart and trying to find out what's going on, I didn't put the cpu in the motherboard, or connect any of the major wires my friend did that for me..so it's possible he did something wrong, idk.
But basically what was happening was I was getting random lockups where I couldn't do anything except shut down the computer manually. My mouse and keyboard didn't work and everything just completely locks up. Before I was getting blue screens, but now I just get the freezing (at least so far it's been about a week since I replaced the RAM and HDD).
I thought my old storage device was the problem or the RAM so I just replaced both, the RAM is the same brand Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600, but I got a WD Blue 1tb HDD instead of the Samsung SSD I had in there.
So after I replaced this two things, everything seemed fine for the past week, and then just today it started freezing on me again. While idle, and while gaming three times so far. No BSOD's yet but I'm waiting to see.
So all I can think now is that it must either be my mobo, processor, or psu. Now I'm gonna just get a different psu to try out in there because I needed an extra one anyway. But as far as the mobo and the processor go I don't want to trade those in if I don't have to, considering I'd have to get windows registration figured out with a new mobo which might be a hassle, idk never done it before.
So I'm trying to figure out which one of those three it could be. My temps are fine I ran stress tests and my cpu never goes about 50 at 100%, my gpu goes pretty damn high though around 70, but the cooling in my case isn't the greatest right now.
Voltages are
CPU Core AVG - 0.5
+3.3v AVG - 3.332
+5v AVG - 5.066
+12v AVG - 12.051
DIMM AVG - 1.488
now my RAM is rated for 1.5v 9-9-9-24 and I set the voltage at 1.5 manually but it won't run at 1.5 idk if that's a problem or not, but otherwise the RAM is set properly as far as I know.
If theres anymore info that would be helpful in figuring this out please let me know I'm happy to post it, but this is all I can think to put right now. I'm just trying to see if I can figure out exactly what is broken (if it's hardware) or not working properly (software, drivers). So I don't have to RMA the whole machine just to find out it was a software issue.
My Build
i5 4670k
Corsair H75 water cooler
MSI Z87-GD65
WD Blue 1tb HDD
EVGA GTX 660
Corsair Carbide 200r
Corsair CX750M
Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x4gb ddr3-1600 cl9
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