Hello! I've bought a new pc couple of months ago:
Let me explain the problem in details.
During assembly and incident occurred which resulted in some damaged pins on the MOBO socket, it was a disaster really, but after all I've managed to align the bend pins but two pins fell from the socket, I've removed those, placed CPU, and it booted without any problems. It worked fine for a couple of months until two weeks ago, when the freezes started to occur.
The freezing in question is complete and absolutely random. I believe it is related to the hardware since I have both Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) and Windows 10 installed on a separate hard drives and freezing occurs on both systems. I was unable to find any pattern whatsoever, sometimes it freezes when I'm working on Linux and sometimes when I'm playing games on Windows. The load doesn't seem to impact freezing too, one day I can play ArmA 3 on ultra settings for hours and it's just fine and the next day it hangs on opening terminal or a browser. There's absolutely nothing in logs, Ubuntu doesn't tell anything at all, and Window 10 only reports not so helpful Kernel power 41 error.
I've tried many-many things, first I've reassembled entire rig, checked that everything's in place and tight, ran memtest overnight (10+ passes), checked CPU with IntelProcessor Diagnostic tool and applied pressure via Prime95, stress-tested GPU via FurMark, then ran both at the same time, I've updated BIOS and I constantly monitor load and temperature via various sensors and it's always stable. I also tried to plug out hard drives one by one to see whether there's a conflict, but to no avail.
At one point I was almost 100% sure that the reason is problems with voltage stability in my flat, so I went and bought voltage stabilizer (1.2KW), now I'm safe from short circuit but the freezing persists. At least I think it somewhat eliminates possibility with the faulty power supply.
So the only thing that's left that I can think of is the motherboard which I'm not able to test with a software AND it has a couple of pins missing + a bit of a spilled thermal paste on the socket. I've read somewhere that around 20-30% of pins are either deprecated or reserved for further usage and are not involved in communication at all. But I'm thinking whether it's possible that those missing pins can cause freezing after a couple of months of stable work? Obviously any guarantee is void on this unit and my only option is to buy a new one and I would be really upset if the freezing will persist with a new motherboard.
Any tips are very appreciated, thanks for your attention.
CPU: Intel Core i5-7600K
MOBO: GIGABYTE B250-HD3-CF
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Mem: Kingston DDR4 2133 8192MB
Power: Chieftec A-135 APS-750CB 750W
Let me explain the problem in details.
During assembly and incident occurred which resulted in some damaged pins on the MOBO socket, it was a disaster really, but after all I've managed to align the bend pins but two pins fell from the socket, I've removed those, placed CPU, and it booted without any problems. It worked fine for a couple of months until two weeks ago, when the freezes started to occur.
The freezing in question is complete and absolutely random. I believe it is related to the hardware since I have both Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) and Windows 10 installed on a separate hard drives and freezing occurs on both systems. I was unable to find any pattern whatsoever, sometimes it freezes when I'm working on Linux and sometimes when I'm playing games on Windows. The load doesn't seem to impact freezing too, one day I can play ArmA 3 on ultra settings for hours and it's just fine and the next day it hangs on opening terminal or a browser. There's absolutely nothing in logs, Ubuntu doesn't tell anything at all, and Window 10 only reports not so helpful Kernel power 41 error.
I've tried many-many things, first I've reassembled entire rig, checked that everything's in place and tight, ran memtest overnight (10+ passes), checked CPU with IntelProcessor Diagnostic tool and applied pressure via Prime95, stress-tested GPU via FurMark, then ran both at the same time, I've updated BIOS and I constantly monitor load and temperature via various sensors and it's always stable. I also tried to plug out hard drives one by one to see whether there's a conflict, but to no avail.
At one point I was almost 100% sure that the reason is problems with voltage stability in my flat, so I went and bought voltage stabilizer (1.2KW), now I'm safe from short circuit but the freezing persists. At least I think it somewhat eliminates possibility with the faulty power supply.
So the only thing that's left that I can think of is the motherboard which I'm not able to test with a software AND it has a couple of pins missing + a bit of a spilled thermal paste on the socket. I've read somewhere that around 20-30% of pins are either deprecated or reserved for further usage and are not involved in communication at all. But I'm thinking whether it's possible that those missing pins can cause freezing after a couple of months of stable work? Obviously any guarantee is void on this unit and my only option is to buy a new one and I would be really upset if the freezing will persist with a new motherboard.
Any tips are very appreciated, thanks for your attention.
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