I recently upgraded to a new Mobo/CPU/water cooling system. Same RAM, PSU, Case, SSD, GPU. I thought it was the Mobo because it was won at a pc gaming event. bought a new, different brand mobo, same issue. I have a 2nd hard drive that I tried, same issue. reformatted both the SSD and HD and only installed the basic drivers needed to run them directly from the website, same issue, no resolve.
I've ran Mem-test for numerous cycles, comes up clean. Downloaded Intel's CPU diagnostic tool, that comes back clean. updated my bios on both motherboards, updated the firmware on my SSD, changed out my SATA cables as well. no resolve.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is putting in my old Mobo/CPU to see if that is the problem. What I've think I've narrowed it down to is either the new CPU or the PSU. The PSU is less than a year old though, 750watts corsair though, and I had no problems before with my old set up. although I did add in a corsair water cooling system and upgraded to a intel CPU from a AMD, I think they draw more power. But I'm only running 1 video card, don't think that would be the issue unless its not pumping out what It should be.
But my symptoms are the same, when I try to turn my computer on, it almost always prompts for a windows recovery mode, or windows has failed to start, and it tries to repair my files, usually saying it was unsuccessful. usually when it finally does turn on, usually after 2 or 3 attempted "repairs", my files and programs will have been slightly altered, some things that were recently installed gone, and some windows updates needing re-downloaded. Is it reverting back to a restore point? maybe..
Occasionally I get a random BSOD on initial start up. But when it does finally get going, it will run fine, no problems.
To me this Screams PSU, I went to a PSU calculator and put in all of my system specs, except the water cooling unit, and it says I should have at least a 550W power supply, I have a 750W now.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is physically testing my PSU to see if its pushing out enough power, I'm not even sure how to do this though. I might also install my old Mobo/AMD CPU combo to see if they still work, because they were working fine before this hardware update.
So I'm left with a dilemma, do I buy a new PSU with 900W or so, hoping this fixes the problem, or do I blame it on the new CPU? I don't see how the windows files would be trying to repair from either issue though.
-current system-
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 500R (three-120mm case fans, one-200mm)
PSU: Corsair 750W
Video card: Nvidia 560ti
SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 250g
Mobo: Asus Z77-A
RAM: Crucial 2x4gig 1600mhz DDR3
CPU: Intel i5-3570k
CPU water cooler: Corsair H100i (two- 120mm fans)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I've ran Mem-test for numerous cycles, comes up clean. Downloaded Intel's CPU diagnostic tool, that comes back clean. updated my bios on both motherboards, updated the firmware on my SSD, changed out my SATA cables as well. no resolve.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is putting in my old Mobo/CPU to see if that is the problem. What I've think I've narrowed it down to is either the new CPU or the PSU. The PSU is less than a year old though, 750watts corsair though, and I had no problems before with my old set up. although I did add in a corsair water cooling system and upgraded to a intel CPU from a AMD, I think they draw more power. But I'm only running 1 video card, don't think that would be the issue unless its not pumping out what It should be.
But my symptoms are the same, when I try to turn my computer on, it almost always prompts for a windows recovery mode, or windows has failed to start, and it tries to repair my files, usually saying it was unsuccessful. usually when it finally does turn on, usually after 2 or 3 attempted "repairs", my files and programs will have been slightly altered, some things that were recently installed gone, and some windows updates needing re-downloaded. Is it reverting back to a restore point? maybe..
Occasionally I get a random BSOD on initial start up. But when it does finally get going, it will run fine, no problems.
To me this Screams PSU, I went to a PSU calculator and put in all of my system specs, except the water cooling unit, and it says I should have at least a 550W power supply, I have a 750W now.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is physically testing my PSU to see if its pushing out enough power, I'm not even sure how to do this though. I might also install my old Mobo/AMD CPU combo to see if they still work, because they were working fine before this hardware update.
So I'm left with a dilemma, do I buy a new PSU with 900W or so, hoping this fixes the problem, or do I blame it on the new CPU? I don't see how the windows files would be trying to repair from either issue though.
-current system-
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 500R (three-120mm case fans, one-200mm)
PSU: Corsair 750W
Video card: Nvidia 560ti
SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 250g
Mobo: Asus Z77-A
RAM: Crucial 2x4gig 1600mhz DDR3
CPU: Intel i5-3570k
CPU water cooler: Corsair H100i (two- 120mm fans)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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