Hi I have recently purchased some new parts (part list below) from newegg and put together a new pc for myself. I have built a few before and was able to identify any issues and fix them, but this one is driving me crazy. When I start up it will intermittenly freeze not letting me do anything, but push power or reset. Sometimes it remains stable for a few hours or sometimes it will lock before windows finishes loading. I can usually force a freeze if I attempt to play a game like Starcraft II as well. Here is a list of what I have tried and my system specs. When it freezes I do not get a BSOD or anything in event viewer other than an unexpected shutdown error and a windows did not properly shut down last time critical event.
Troublebooting done so far:
I have ran memtest on each stick of RAM (1 stick for 4 and 1 for 6 hours) with no errors
flashed my BIOS
tried multiple reformats & installs
checked and no warnings in device manager
set BIOS RAM timings and voltage per memory specs
checked temps (usually under 35C)
checked for HD errors (none)
ran prime 95 and OCCT (CPU at 100% load) for multiple hours no problems
Swapped video card *** see below ***
My System spces:
1 Win 7 Pro 64 bit (upgrade from XP so fresh custom format and install)
1 AMD Phenom II x3 740 Black Edition
1 Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU cooler
1 LITE-ON CD/DVD Burner
1 MSI N460GTX CYCLONE 1GD5/OC GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
1 GIGABYTE GA-790XTA-UD4 AM3 AMD 790X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
1 OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ700MXSP 700W Modular Active PFC Power Supply
1 Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
1 LITE-ON SK-1688U/B Black USB Wired Standard Keyboard
1 Logitech MX 518 8 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical Gaming Mouse
1 SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
1 Thermaltake V3 Black Edition case
When I swapped my video card out with an older one I had (geforce 7800GTX) the pc ran fine so I was assuming it was a graphics card issue, but I also put the new card in another system and it ran fine as well. So I am starting to lean toward a Power Supply or Motherboard problem, but I do not know any good ways to test them. I do not have a meter to test power currently, but if need be I can get one (last one died a few months ago). The old graphics card has 1 6 pin power connector and the new one requires 2 6 pin connectors so I tried to run the old card in the new system off both connectors at different times in case one of those were bad. I was able to play games for a few hours without problems on each. I had 1 crash with the old card in the new system and the event viewer showed :
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000007e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff88003d73ff3, 0xfffff88003bfa698, 0xfffff88003bf9f00). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\Minidump\092210-14492-01.dmp. Report Id: 092210-14492-01.
Sorry so long, but I wanted to give you all the information and what all I tried. I am thinking about trying old Power Supply in my new system and new graphics card, but unfortunately I wont be able to do that until late tonight since I will be working. If someone has other ideas or knows more tests to run I may be able to do that while I am working.
Thanks for reading!
Troublebooting done so far:
I have ran memtest on each stick of RAM (1 stick for 4 and 1 for 6 hours) with no errors
flashed my BIOS
tried multiple reformats & installs
checked and no warnings in device manager
set BIOS RAM timings and voltage per memory specs
checked temps (usually under 35C)
checked for HD errors (none)
ran prime 95 and OCCT (CPU at 100% load) for multiple hours no problems
Swapped video card *** see below ***
My System spces:
1 Win 7 Pro 64 bit (upgrade from XP so fresh custom format and install)
1 AMD Phenom II x3 740 Black Edition
1 Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU cooler
1 LITE-ON CD/DVD Burner
1 MSI N460GTX CYCLONE 1GD5/OC GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
1 GIGABYTE GA-790XTA-UD4 AM3 AMD 790X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
1 OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ700MXSP 700W Modular Active PFC Power Supply
1 Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
1 LITE-ON SK-1688U/B Black USB Wired Standard Keyboard
1 Logitech MX 518 8 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical Gaming Mouse
1 SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
1 Thermaltake V3 Black Edition case
When I swapped my video card out with an older one I had (geforce 7800GTX) the pc ran fine so I was assuming it was a graphics card issue, but I also put the new card in another system and it ran fine as well. So I am starting to lean toward a Power Supply or Motherboard problem, but I do not know any good ways to test them. I do not have a meter to test power currently, but if need be I can get one (last one died a few months ago). The old graphics card has 1 6 pin power connector and the new one requires 2 6 pin connectors so I tried to run the old card in the new system off both connectors at different times in case one of those were bad. I was able to play games for a few hours without problems on each. I had 1 crash with the old card in the new system and the event viewer showed :
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000007e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff88003d73ff3, 0xfffff88003bfa698, 0xfffff88003bf9f00). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\Minidump\092210-14492-01.dmp. Report Id: 092210-14492-01.
Sorry so long, but I wanted to give you all the information and what all I tried. I am thinking about trying old Power Supply in my new system and new graphics card, but unfortunately I wont be able to do that until late tonight since I will be working. If someone has other ideas or knows more tests to run I may be able to do that while I am working.
Thanks for reading!
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