I am currently using
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme6 AM3+ Northbridge: AMD 990FX Southbridge: AMD SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
The PC randomly freezes, blue screens with memory fault error, reboots, won't come out of sleep mode. I even noticed if I just shut off the monitor using the monitor power button and turning it back on the screen just comes on as one color and I have to reboot it.
Eventually it wouldn't turn on anymore. I'm not getting any Beep codes, but the monitor would just say no signal, so I went and bought this new video card:
XFX Radeon GTR RX 480 DirectX 12 RX-480P8DFA6 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Triple X Video Card
I put in the new video card and machine booted up again. Possibly I fixed the issue, because it worked well for 1 day. Next day the random freezing, rebooting, etc started happening again. If I start up the computer and get a game going and play it, the pc usually won't crash for many hours, but if I leave my PC unattended for 15 mins or more and come back it will be locked up or find that it had rebooted.
It's really dry here in the winter and sometimes I would get out of bed in the morning and would get a static shock when I step on my floor of carpet. The power fluctuated on my pc because I had it just sitting on the carpet. I know it's stupid of me, but I can't change the past. It's on bricks now which I believe will not conduct electricity. I just didn't have anywhere to put it really. I had seen this happen a few times at least and I'm pretty sure at one point or another one of the static shocks wore down the capacitors on my MB enough.
I have ran memory tests on my RAM sticks. I do believe there is a RAM issue, but I believe it's on the MB itself. My other thought is the power supply. I have a bronze certified 750 watt power supply. I bought everything last Jan, so they are all about 1 year old now. I'm more apt to believe it's deteriorated performance of my motherboard from static shocks, which lead to a lot of BSOD memory fault crashes, which continues to deteriorate my board.
I'm not really writing this to troubleshoot. I've researched and tried enough things. I am going to buy a new MB, because I'm fairly certain that is the issue. Can someone suggest a new decent MB? I don't want to buy a whole new system. I already chocked down $250 for the video card which didn't fix the issue.
Here is my processor and RAM:
1 x AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.2 GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GXM
XFX Radeon GTR RX 480 DirectX 12 RX-480P8DFA6 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Triple X Video Card
* I forgot to mention. I leave overclocking on auto, but I really may just turn it off completely. Basically I'm not trying to overclock my system, but I need the MB to be reliable because it is in a warm room in the winter due to where I live. I have a humidifier now so the static isn't as bad, but the cpu already runs very hot and my room gets warm from using heat in the winter, so that is why I want a reliable motherboard, not so I can overclock it.
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme6 AM3+ Northbridge: AMD 990FX Southbridge: AMD SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme6 AM3+ Northbridge: AMD 990FX Southbridge: AMD SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
The PC randomly freezes, blue screens with memory fault error, reboots, won't come out of sleep mode. I even noticed if I just shut off the monitor using the monitor power button and turning it back on the screen just comes on as one color and I have to reboot it.
Eventually it wouldn't turn on anymore. I'm not getting any Beep codes, but the monitor would just say no signal, so I went and bought this new video card:
XFX Radeon GTR RX 480 DirectX 12 RX-480P8DFA6 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Triple X Video Card
I put in the new video card and machine booted up again. Possibly I fixed the issue, because it worked well for 1 day. Next day the random freezing, rebooting, etc started happening again. If I start up the computer and get a game going and play it, the pc usually won't crash for many hours, but if I leave my PC unattended for 15 mins or more and come back it will be locked up or find that it had rebooted.
It's really dry here in the winter and sometimes I would get out of bed in the morning and would get a static shock when I step on my floor of carpet. The power fluctuated on my pc because I had it just sitting on the carpet. I know it's stupid of me, but I can't change the past. It's on bricks now which I believe will not conduct electricity. I just didn't have anywhere to put it really. I had seen this happen a few times at least and I'm pretty sure at one point or another one of the static shocks wore down the capacitors on my MB enough.
I have ran memory tests on my RAM sticks. I do believe there is a RAM issue, but I believe it's on the MB itself. My other thought is the power supply. I have a bronze certified 750 watt power supply. I bought everything last Jan, so they are all about 1 year old now. I'm more apt to believe it's deteriorated performance of my motherboard from static shocks, which lead to a lot of BSOD memory fault crashes, which continues to deteriorate my board.
I'm not really writing this to troubleshoot. I've researched and tried enough things. I am going to buy a new MB, because I'm fairly certain that is the issue. Can someone suggest a new decent MB? I don't want to buy a whole new system. I already chocked down $250 for the video card which didn't fix the issue.
Here is my processor and RAM:
1 x AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.2 GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GXM
XFX Radeon GTR RX 480 DirectX 12 RX-480P8DFA6 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Triple X Video Card
* I forgot to mention. I leave overclocking on auto, but I really may just turn it off completely. Basically I'm not trying to overclock my system, but I need the MB to be reliable because it is in a warm room in the winter due to where I live. I have a humidifier now so the static isn't as bad, but the cpu already runs very hot and my room gets warm from using heat in the winter, so that is why I want a reliable motherboard, not so I can overclock it.
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme6 AM3+ Northbridge: AMD 990FX Southbridge: AMD SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard