- Dec 15, 2015
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I recently posted about issues with my computer here and determined it was probably a hdd issue. After recieving two 500 Gb SSDs I am still having freezing issues. Whether I am playing a game or downloading the windows updates after installing the windows os off a new disk I somehow freeze. I can not narrow down what the issue is.
I previously believed it was a hard drive problem because I noticed most of my freezing during loading, but that can't be it, because the hard drive I was using is out of the computer. I was required to buy a new copy of windows 7 (because I can upgrade back to windows 10) due to the hard drive coming from my previous computer containing windows.
This leaves (I think) the power supply,mother board, graphics card, and CPU. All of which are new. As far as I can tell the CPU is not the issue, considering, a faulty CPU would probably prevent the pc from booting.
I do not think the issue is caused by the GPU, because when it freezes it isn't just the video, it includes the sound and (this may be nothing but) when I press caps lock and number lock the lights don't come on. Keep in mind, it mainly freezes in graphics intensive games.
So that narrows it to the PSU and mother board. I would imagine a bad power supply would shut the whole system down. So do I have a mother board issue then?
Specs:
GPU: EVGA GTX 970
CPU: Water-cooled AMD FX-9590
PSU: Corsair 1000 watt
MoBo: Gigabyte Ga-990 am3 and am3+
Memory: 2 x 4 gb PNY ram
Drives: 1 sandisk ssd and 1 samsung ssd
P.S. (TLDR: I replaced old parts and the new parts still don't work)
Everything in the computer is brad new, other than the disk drive. The GPU is refurbished I believe. When I purchased all the parts (along with a new Antec case) the radiator for the water cooler covered the CPU power "port" and obviously wouldn't boot.
I immediately sent the GPU back to EVGA (because the system was powering and not displaying), they sent a refurbished one in return. Due to not removing any other parts the system still didn't boot I took it to best buy (where they didn't look at it) and they told me the mother board was bad. I sent the MoBo to Gigabyte and in the meantime put my parts back into the original system.
That machine consisted of a Asus mother board, 500 watt power supply, the 970 I got back from EVGA and a Toshiba HDD. I never experienced any issues with the machine other than it always having a limited connection to the internet (which is why I purchased new hardware). I finally received my mother board back, I know it is the same one because of a spot I got a dab of thermal paste on the edge where put my finger when I took the mother board out before sending it. I figured out I forgot to plug the CPU power in and after booting the networking issues persisted. I then wiped the hard drive of everything including windows.
I had to plug the HDD into the Asus motherboard and it somehow had a key combo that installed windows back on it (I have no clue how that worked but the Asus guy told me to do it). After finishing the installation I plugged it into my newly built machine and downloaded all the necessities including steam. I then found while playing Fallout 4 I was freezing when travelling or loading, nut never when standing in place. I was very upset considering it was very unpredictable, nothing showed the system was under stress (as in temps or resources).
I figured it was a RAM issue because I was using the RAM that came with the Asus computer, so I purchased the covered sticks of RAM. The issue persisted and I recieved two SSDs for christmas, and you know the rest.
P.P.S
While writing this I have 2 chrome tabs open, steam open and downloading Shadow of Mordor, and Killing Floor 2 running in the background. I have 74 processes going, using 15% of the processor, and using 45% of the physical memory.
I previously believed it was a hard drive problem because I noticed most of my freezing during loading, but that can't be it, because the hard drive I was using is out of the computer. I was required to buy a new copy of windows 7 (because I can upgrade back to windows 10) due to the hard drive coming from my previous computer containing windows.
This leaves (I think) the power supply,mother board, graphics card, and CPU. All of which are new. As far as I can tell the CPU is not the issue, considering, a faulty CPU would probably prevent the pc from booting.
I do not think the issue is caused by the GPU, because when it freezes it isn't just the video, it includes the sound and (this may be nothing but) when I press caps lock and number lock the lights don't come on. Keep in mind, it mainly freezes in graphics intensive games.
So that narrows it to the PSU and mother board. I would imagine a bad power supply would shut the whole system down. So do I have a mother board issue then?
Specs:
GPU: EVGA GTX 970
CPU: Water-cooled AMD FX-9590
PSU: Corsair 1000 watt
MoBo: Gigabyte Ga-990 am3 and am3+
Memory: 2 x 4 gb PNY ram
Drives: 1 sandisk ssd and 1 samsung ssd
P.S. (TLDR: I replaced old parts and the new parts still don't work)
Everything in the computer is brad new, other than the disk drive. The GPU is refurbished I believe. When I purchased all the parts (along with a new Antec case) the radiator for the water cooler covered the CPU power "port" and obviously wouldn't boot.
I immediately sent the GPU back to EVGA (because the system was powering and not displaying), they sent a refurbished one in return. Due to not removing any other parts the system still didn't boot I took it to best buy (where they didn't look at it) and they told me the mother board was bad. I sent the MoBo to Gigabyte and in the meantime put my parts back into the original system.
That machine consisted of a Asus mother board, 500 watt power supply, the 970 I got back from EVGA and a Toshiba HDD. I never experienced any issues with the machine other than it always having a limited connection to the internet (which is why I purchased new hardware). I finally received my mother board back, I know it is the same one because of a spot I got a dab of thermal paste on the edge where put my finger when I took the mother board out before sending it. I figured out I forgot to plug the CPU power in and after booting the networking issues persisted. I then wiped the hard drive of everything including windows.
I had to plug the HDD into the Asus motherboard and it somehow had a key combo that installed windows back on it (I have no clue how that worked but the Asus guy told me to do it). After finishing the installation I plugged it into my newly built machine and downloaded all the necessities including steam. I then found while playing Fallout 4 I was freezing when travelling or loading, nut never when standing in place. I was very upset considering it was very unpredictable, nothing showed the system was under stress (as in temps or resources).
I figured it was a RAM issue because I was using the RAM that came with the Asus computer, so I purchased the covered sticks of RAM. The issue persisted and I recieved two SSDs for christmas, and you know the rest.
P.P.S
While writing this I have 2 chrome tabs open, steam open and downloading Shadow of Mordor, and Killing Floor 2 running in the background. I have 74 processes going, using 15% of the processor, and using 45% of the physical memory.
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