So heres my system I made almost a year ago with 1 upgrade today.
Mobo: EP45-UD3R rev1.1 http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=3014
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16819115041
PSU: Zalman 850W http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=198
Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145217
GPU: ATI HD 4870x2 before but now I just switched over to the EVGA GTX 480 superclocked
The problem is my system keeps freezing randomly for no apparent reason. I can sit in bios for days or in safe mode for a while. Rarely does it happen in safe mode. In normal mode if it starts up it will sit there without a problem temps for cpu 20-30 idle gpu 30-40 idle. When I start a 3d application however its as if the timers started. It seems like theres a 30 second period that it doesnt freeze if its fullscreen. It lasts about 10 mns in windowed mode. It's not overheating I'm 100% positive on that since there are no artifacts and the gpu is around 46 normally and 56 is max I've seen it under load. Just in case this thing was stupidly sensitive to heat I replaced the stock thermal with arctic silver 5 and found a nice 8 degree drop but fixed nothing. The ATI did the same thing before also. It would do it everytime I updated drivers then it was like over time it started working right slowly but always when I updated. I thought maybe things would be better this time going with a different company period and also going with a single core gpu instead of the horrid dual core. My OC was working fine with my ATI before and I tried it with this 480 and it froze so I thought that might be the problem. I went to default and it still does it. Yes I uninstalled ATI drivers, did driver cleaner, rebooted in safe mode did driver cleaner again and ran ccleaner then rebooted into normal and ran driver cleaner again and ccleaner to be safe then installed nvidia. Not only that but I repeated that process and tried installing in safe mode also. I'm completely out of ideas I don't know what to do anymore and its driving me crazy. Is there something I'm missing in my bios settings perhaps if anyone knows this mobo?
Mobo: EP45-UD3R rev1.1 http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=3014
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16819115041
PSU: Zalman 850W http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=198
Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145217
GPU: ATI HD 4870x2 before but now I just switched over to the EVGA GTX 480 superclocked
The problem is my system keeps freezing randomly for no apparent reason. I can sit in bios for days or in safe mode for a while. Rarely does it happen in safe mode. In normal mode if it starts up it will sit there without a problem temps for cpu 20-30 idle gpu 30-40 idle. When I start a 3d application however its as if the timers started. It seems like theres a 30 second period that it doesnt freeze if its fullscreen. It lasts about 10 mns in windowed mode. It's not overheating I'm 100% positive on that since there are no artifacts and the gpu is around 46 normally and 56 is max I've seen it under load. Just in case this thing was stupidly sensitive to heat I replaced the stock thermal with arctic silver 5 and found a nice 8 degree drop but fixed nothing. The ATI did the same thing before also. It would do it everytime I updated drivers then it was like over time it started working right slowly but always when I updated. I thought maybe things would be better this time going with a different company period and also going with a single core gpu instead of the horrid dual core. My OC was working fine with my ATI before and I tried it with this 480 and it froze so I thought that might be the problem. I went to default and it still does it. Yes I uninstalled ATI drivers, did driver cleaner, rebooted in safe mode did driver cleaner again and ran ccleaner then rebooted into normal and ran driver cleaner again and ccleaner to be safe then installed nvidia. Not only that but I repeated that process and tried installing in safe mode also. I'm completely out of ideas I don't know what to do anymore and its driving me crazy. Is there something I'm missing in my bios settings perhaps if anyone knows this mobo?