Need help troubleshooting a new build

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
P

prbridges05

Reputable
Oct 3, 2014
2
0
4,510
Just got all my components in for a new PC build, assembled everything, and now I'm getting just about every error I can think of; lots of blue screens, each with different error codes, freezing when installing new programs, windows update consistently failing, etc. I thought it was a software issue initially, some of the error codes pointed to bad drivers, tried updating those, tried reformatting four different times, still the same, so I moved on to troubleshooting hardware. So far I've ruled out the RAM, put it into another PC and no issues, put the RAM from that PC into this one and still failing. I've also ruled out the hard drive with through the same steps. I'm thinking it's the either the motherboard, or some compatibility issue that I overlooked, but I'm still sort of new at this and could use some help.

Thanks

Link to build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/prbridges05/saved/#savedbuild_1514718
 
Solution
H
9 times out of 10 this is because of your ram. being that you got pretty fast ram, make sure to set the timings, latency, and voltage properly in your bios. Before I started using performance ram this was not an issue, but once I moved to performance ram the settings makes a huge difference.

Here found your ram on newegg where it shows you these values on the production main page. Set your bios to match these settings and try again.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231519
Sort by date Sort by votes
inerax

inerax

Distinguished
Jan 8, 2010
1,266
0
19,660
I would pull all ram and try with just 1 stick. If it still happens, test another stick in another slot. Just to make sure one of the slots on the MOBO is not bad.

Also, your ram is Speed DDR3-2133.
MOBO Memory Type DDR3-800 / 1066 / 1333 / 1600 / 1800 / 1866 / 2100
Can someone else chime in and tell if this could be a problem?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
I

i7Baby

Titan
BANNED
Jul 25, 2012
44,084
2
106,960
CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($139.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($65.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($82.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.95 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card ($168.60 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $587.16


Not exactly a high end build. Go through Tom's checklist - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems - CAREFULLY!

If that doesn't fix your problems, then you'll have to start swapping out bits.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
H

homiezheadsup

Distinguished
Mar 14, 2010
64
0
18,660
9 times out of 10 this is because of your ram. being that you got pretty fast ram, make sure to set the timings, latency, and voltage properly in your bios. Before I started using performance ram this was not an issue, but once I moved to performance ram the settings makes a huge difference.

Here found your ram on newegg where it shows you these values on the production main page. Set your bios to match these settings and try again.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231519
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
P

prbridges05

Reputable
Oct 3, 2014
2
0
4,510


This may have been the issue, bios was set to 1600, 9, 9, something. Changed it and we'll see if it holds up. Going to be so happy if it was that simple
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom