- Feb 20, 2014
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So, I've been having some trouble for a bit now and I think I'm getting closer to the problem but Im not sure I'm quite there yet...and I'm also afraid that I might misjudge and then replace the wrong parts.
So here goes all the info I can give you:
First the specs:
CPU: AMD 7850K (APU)
Board: Asrock FM2A88X-ITX+
Ram: Team Group Vulcan Series 2400 MHZ 16GB
Extra GPU: Palit 750 Ti StormX
SSD1(system):60GB Sandisk
SSD2: m.Sata 120GB Crucial m500
OS: Win 8.1 (64bit, duh ;p)
PSU: 350w Be Quiet (Bronze) (before you say it's not enough...the system consumes sub 200 Watt during gaming...and even less without the GPU installed)
Problems that occured (in order).
The First thing that happened: Whenever I booted with my 2400 MHZ ram in the system the lights of my keyboards would first flicker for a few seconds and the machine would then proceed to boot normally.
This went on for months and I kinda ignored it (maybe I shouldn't have)
Earlier this week after installing Nvidia driver 344 my games would suddenly start to freak out...they would make the "death sound" (a small soundbit repetetively played) and then the game would crash.
Followed by a "Kernel crashed, driver was restored"
Rolled back to 340...same prob
Went back to 344...same prob.
Assumed it was the graphics card as now even while watching videos the screen would go dark for 1-2 seconds.
Removed GPU.
Used APU.
1 day...everything is normal.
Next day: DX9 games crash and the system restarts with the normal Win 8 "
something went wrong"
DX11 games give me a RED screen, sound of death and I have to reboot normally (I have to go as far as reboot multiple times just so the system actually starts after a redscreen crash.
After ONE of the crashes I also get the following message while booting:"file header checksum does not match the computed checksum"
This message only appeared once.
That said..as long as I dont do 3D applications...the system does it's work fine. Running memtest the whole night but it doesn't find an error.
I remove 1 module (slot B) and even though my framerate is now trash...games don't crash on me it seems.
Modules are now in the RMA process.
Use modules from a friend. Redscreen games now crash "normally" and my system reboots "normally" as if nothing happened.
Something is still wrong.
Why am I writing all this? I need to figure out which piece exactly is faulty since I can't RMA the CPU...but everything else I can.
What ways can I use to determine which hardware piece is faulty if I don't actually have any more hardware to switch out?
Anyone got any clue what this looks like? SSD health is "fine"...so I don't think it's that. I'm currently debating if it's the CPU or if the board is actually damaged.
So here goes all the info I can give you:
First the specs:
CPU: AMD 7850K (APU)
Board: Asrock FM2A88X-ITX+
Ram: Team Group Vulcan Series 2400 MHZ 16GB
Extra GPU: Palit 750 Ti StormX
SSD1(system):60GB Sandisk
SSD2: m.Sata 120GB Crucial m500
OS: Win 8.1 (64bit, duh ;p)
PSU: 350w Be Quiet (Bronze) (before you say it's not enough...the system consumes sub 200 Watt during gaming...and even less without the GPU installed)
Problems that occured (in order).
The First thing that happened: Whenever I booted with my 2400 MHZ ram in the system the lights of my keyboards would first flicker for a few seconds and the machine would then proceed to boot normally.
This went on for months and I kinda ignored it (maybe I shouldn't have)
Earlier this week after installing Nvidia driver 344 my games would suddenly start to freak out...they would make the "death sound" (a small soundbit repetetively played) and then the game would crash.
Followed by a "Kernel crashed, driver was restored"
Rolled back to 340...same prob
Went back to 344...same prob.
Assumed it was the graphics card as now even while watching videos the screen would go dark for 1-2 seconds.
Removed GPU.
Used APU.
1 day...everything is normal.
Next day: DX9 games crash and the system restarts with the normal Win 8 "
something went wrong"DX11 games give me a RED screen, sound of death and I have to reboot normally (I have to go as far as reboot multiple times just so the system actually starts after a redscreen crash.
After ONE of the crashes I also get the following message while booting:"file header checksum does not match the computed checksum"
This message only appeared once.
That said..as long as I dont do 3D applications...the system does it's work fine. Running memtest the whole night but it doesn't find an error.
I remove 1 module (slot B) and even though my framerate is now trash...games don't crash on me it seems.
Modules are now in the RMA process.
Use modules from a friend. Redscreen games now crash "normally" and my system reboots "normally" as if nothing happened.
Something is still wrong.
Why am I writing all this? I need to figure out which piece exactly is faulty since I can't RMA the CPU...but everything else I can.
What ways can I use to determine which hardware piece is faulty if I don't actually have any more hardware to switch out?
Anyone got any clue what this looks like? SSD health is "fine"...so I don't think it's that. I'm currently debating if it's the CPU or if the board is actually damaged.
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