So after having this rig that I put together myself for a couple of years without any big issues, I finally ran into something that I cannot find an answer to. The original build that I had was:
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal HD
Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel
MSI 785GM-E65 AM3 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Antec BP550 Plus 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus HS
VisionTek 900244 Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit
A couple months ago I purchased the quad core for the performance upgrade since games were lagging. Up until recently, I have had no issues but I have been experiencing random freezing (no response from anything, have to for power down every time) during just about any situation. The biggest thing that I don't understand is the randomness. Sometimes while windows is booting it freezes, sometimes I can play games for hours without any issues, but I have had it freeze just opening a folder on the desktop before. I have a Hyper 212 heat sink and have been monitoring temps and nothing is out of the normal from how it was running before, 30~35c idle never seen it over 55 on max load.
I tried a clean Windows 7 64 bit install, a different HD, dusting out the PC, checking all connections and was still experiencing problems. Originally I had not nailed this down to a processor problem and actually replaced the video card up to a 6870 since it seemed to happen more during high loads, but the last week or so the problem has started to occur everywhere. I ram memtest86 and windows memory diagnostic tools and neither came back with any RAM errors, which I would have thought would be the culprit because of the randomness. I installed Prime95 to see if it would shed any more light on my situation and now I have run into some interesting information that I can't really make anything out of.
Running Prime95, the small FTT's test runs great. Ran it for a couple of hours with no errors or freezing. However, when I try to run large FTT's or Blend, I will freeze within 5 seconds of starting the test. There is never any error message, just everything stops moving. Sometimes there is a small blip that occurs on the screen when it freezes. Something that makes this even more interesting is that when I throw in my old dual core, it runs every test great. Tried them all with the old one and had no issues and haven't frozen one time. If this is what's happening, that means it absolutely is the 965 that is not working correctly, right? It isn't overclocked in any way, recently flashed the BIOS and set everything to optimized defaults, still does not help with the 965. What should I do? I am just past the warranty from newegg, so I can't even get a replacement to see if the CPU I have somehow went bad early.
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal HD
Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel
MSI 785GM-E65 AM3 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Antec BP550 Plus 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus HS
VisionTek 900244 Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit
A couple months ago I purchased the quad core for the performance upgrade since games were lagging. Up until recently, I have had no issues but I have been experiencing random freezing (no response from anything, have to for power down every time) during just about any situation. The biggest thing that I don't understand is the randomness. Sometimes while windows is booting it freezes, sometimes I can play games for hours without any issues, but I have had it freeze just opening a folder on the desktop before. I have a Hyper 212 heat sink and have been monitoring temps and nothing is out of the normal from how it was running before, 30~35c idle never seen it over 55 on max load.
I tried a clean Windows 7 64 bit install, a different HD, dusting out the PC, checking all connections and was still experiencing problems. Originally I had not nailed this down to a processor problem and actually replaced the video card up to a 6870 since it seemed to happen more during high loads, but the last week or so the problem has started to occur everywhere. I ram memtest86 and windows memory diagnostic tools and neither came back with any RAM errors, which I would have thought would be the culprit because of the randomness. I installed Prime95 to see if it would shed any more light on my situation and now I have run into some interesting information that I can't really make anything out of.
Running Prime95, the small FTT's test runs great. Ran it for a couple of hours with no errors or freezing. However, when I try to run large FTT's or Blend, I will freeze within 5 seconds of starting the test. There is never any error message, just everything stops moving. Sometimes there is a small blip that occurs on the screen when it freezes. Something that makes this even more interesting is that when I throw in my old dual core, it runs every test great. Tried them all with the old one and had no issues and haven't frozen one time. If this is what's happening, that means it absolutely is the 965 that is not working correctly, right? It isn't overclocked in any way, recently flashed the BIOS and set everything to optimized defaults, still does not help with the 965. What should I do? I am just past the warranty from newegg, so I can't even get a replacement to see if the CPU I have somehow went bad early.
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