- Aug 16, 2014
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This problem started about 3 weeks after my first build. I started to get intermittent freezes in games, where the audio would just loop and everything including the mouse would freeze. At first I thought it was my video card, so I hooked my HDMI up to my motherboard to see if that was the cause and it still kept freezing during games. It also showed an error on my motherboards error codes that said " southbridge initialization before microcode loading" and it takes about a minute for the pc to full shut down and turn its fans off etc.
I then turned my attention to the RAM and performed a memtest with each of them, and they both came out with no errors, and I even tried putting in one stick at a time and it still has a slow shutdown time and would still freeze
I switched out my SSD with a friends to see if that was the cause, and it wasn't still the same two problems.
I RMA'ed my motherboard and the two problem still persist, I also swapped my PSU with a friends to see if it was that, and yet again those same two problems still occur.
The only thing that I have not eliminated is the CPU, and I was wondering if these two problems,
"southbridge initialization before microcode loading"/ minute shutdown time and freezing during games and web browsing, were possible symptoms for a bad CPU.
I could really use everybody's opinions and anything is helpful at this point, if I forgot to mention something please let me know. Thanks!
Also my build is as follows:
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
PNY XLR8 PRO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card
NZXT Phantom 410 (Black/Orange) ATX Mid Tower Case
Corsair RM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit (OEM) (64-bit)
TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter
I then turned my attention to the RAM and performed a memtest with each of them, and they both came out with no errors, and I even tried putting in one stick at a time and it still has a slow shutdown time and would still freeze
I switched out my SSD with a friends to see if that was the cause, and it wasn't still the same two problems.
I RMA'ed my motherboard and the two problem still persist, I also swapped my PSU with a friends to see if it was that, and yet again those same two problems still occur.
The only thing that I have not eliminated is the CPU, and I was wondering if these two problems,
"southbridge initialization before microcode loading"/ minute shutdown time and freezing during games and web browsing, were possible symptoms for a bad CPU.
I could really use everybody's opinions and anything is helpful at this point, if I forgot to mention something please let me know. Thanks!
Also my build is as follows:
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
PNY XLR8 PRO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card
NZXT Phantom 410 (Black/Orange) ATX Mid Tower Case
Corsair RM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit (OEM) (64-bit)
TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter
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