So I have had problems with this build from the start, but I will cut to the chase.
System will boot and get to start menu when i start up after a long period of being off; like overnight. It will get as far as maybe opening up IE, then freezing when the ad on yahoo starts displaying. After that its all bananas. Will post sometimes, and maybe three seconds into loading windows it will freeze and i will have to hard shutdown. Other times, it wont post and just give me a new LED indicator on the MOBO, but with no real pattern (DRAM, BOOT DEVICE, GPU, CPU have all lit up at least once on separate occasions).
Ive already rma'd my first 290 because temps were way above advertised. Second card is a lot better, but i picked up an h100i just because the cpu was getting up to 50c with the h55 i had in before. This strange LED behavior started after installing the h100i, leading me to believe that it may be a psu issue, but 750 should be plenty, and the unit is brand new. Temps are fine, as i bought extra fans in preparation for the 290. Could it be a motherboard issue? I dont think it could be a software problem, because sometimes it gets further into the boot, and sometimes boots all the way before cpu has to work, and it freezes. Seems like it crashes/freezes when a component has load put onto it. Could it be a HDD issue? At a loss here.
PSU: Corsair tx 750
Mobo: Asus M5A99x Evo r.2.0
Cpu: fx 8350
CPU Cooler: H100i
HDD; WD (not sure model as this is from a previous build, only component that was reused)
GPU: MSI R9 290
Windows 8.1
System will boot and get to start menu when i start up after a long period of being off; like overnight. It will get as far as maybe opening up IE, then freezing when the ad on yahoo starts displaying. After that its all bananas. Will post sometimes, and maybe three seconds into loading windows it will freeze and i will have to hard shutdown. Other times, it wont post and just give me a new LED indicator on the MOBO, but with no real pattern (DRAM, BOOT DEVICE, GPU, CPU have all lit up at least once on separate occasions).
Ive already rma'd my first 290 because temps were way above advertised. Second card is a lot better, but i picked up an h100i just because the cpu was getting up to 50c with the h55 i had in before. This strange LED behavior started after installing the h100i, leading me to believe that it may be a psu issue, but 750 should be plenty, and the unit is brand new. Temps are fine, as i bought extra fans in preparation for the 290. Could it be a motherboard issue? I dont think it could be a software problem, because sometimes it gets further into the boot, and sometimes boots all the way before cpu has to work, and it freezes. Seems like it crashes/freezes when a component has load put onto it. Could it be a HDD issue? At a loss here.
PSU: Corsair tx 750
Mobo: Asus M5A99x Evo r.2.0
Cpu: fx 8350
CPU Cooler: H100i
HDD; WD (not sure model as this is from a previous build, only component that was reused)
GPU: MSI R9 290
Windows 8.1
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