[Solved] New build freezes randomly

Hi, I'm having a problem with a new build of mine. It randomly freezes up, leaving whatever is on the screen at that point, on the screen until I reboot. I originally was thinking it could be a RAM issue because I noticed the new RAM I got had a few scratches on the outside and when I was building. I ignored it then, but now it sticks out to me know. I don't have any RAM to replace it with.
However, I ran a memory test in the BIOS and it says it's fine. From reading the other forum posts I'm going to try Memtest86 tonight, but I was thinking, if my mouse and keyboard turn off when this happens (and turn back on when I replug {still don't work}) could this be a motherboard problem?

Note: Before the OS loads, it says NO HARD DISK DETECTED. I just figured this was because I boot into a SSD, could this have anything to do with it?

Note2: The computer runs fine for hours before the freezing occurs.

SPECS:
RAM - Patriot Viper Xtreme Division 2
MOBO - MSI P67A-GD65 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67
VGA - MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr II OC GeForce GTX 570
CPU - Intel Core i7-2600K SandyBridge 3.4 Ghz
PSU - Corsair HX Series CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V
SSD - OCS Vertex 2 120G Sata II
HDD - WD Caviar Black 1TB

Did you run the event log to see what errors occured before the freezing? I don't know when I boot if I get that hard disk or not...the stupid boot process is too fast!

Ok, the newest freeze happen with these similar logs.


The Application Experience service entered the stopped state.
The Multimedia Class Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

Also, this is the last event logged before the system went down.

Information 5/12/2011 11:14:26 PM MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS 17896 (2)
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The time stamp counter of CPU on scheduler id 1 is not synchronized with other CPUs.

Any clues? Please help.

I'm not really sure how/why SQL got installed, though it may have something to do with Visual Studio...?

Other than the frequency being high it's the right kind of ram. What is your voltage at? As long as it's between 1.5 - 1.65V it should be ok. That MSI board might prefer you declock it down to 1600Mhz "DDR3 1066/1333/1600*/2133*(OC)" Looks like it doesn't support 1866Mhz. Do you have CPU-z? If so check the JEDEC timings for 1600Mhz.

Ah, well thenthe ram shouldn't be causing issues. Sounds like you've got it figured out with the SQL express. If you want to bump up your ram to the settings you purchased, the xmp profile has it stored for you. I don't know if the board will like it though. I don't even see a 1600Mhz file. I'd assume you could lock in 7-8-7-24 or just go 8-8-8-24 if you want to play with the ram.

Found another forum with similar problems. But no solution....

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/s [...] p=18265023

I suppose I could do that. I guess I'll replace the cables while I'm at it.

I checked out the MSI forums and it seems that a couple of people using this board have had freezing problems. Hopefully, they will have some suggestions as well. I'll continue to keep you posted. Thank you for all your help so far crewton!

http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=147744.0

http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=147443.0

Ok so I switched SATA ports and the cable for my SSD. Now I'm getting the message, NO VIRTUAL DISK FOUND and then it shows my two physical disks and boots Windows.

When I got on I immediately got a message from windows to restart after changes (what changes I have no idea). I ignored it for the moment to check this forum and then it froze again :\

marvel 9128 is the raid controller I believe...you don't need to turn that off. Sounds like you have some messed up SATAs. In your bios are you running your disks in IDE or AHCI or did you have it as raid?

I can't see either drive in the System Status all I see is my DVD device in SATA port 2.
The SSD and HDD, port 5 and 6, are not detected. I just hope that this driver fixed the problem. I never ran the driver disk that came with my mobo, I just got the Ethernet drivers off another computer and then downloaded the rest of them. That was probably my mistake

Well, we shall see if I freeze up again, I'll let you know. Wish me luck!

Best answer selected by bucknasty1618.