I just built a new budget gaming rig. For about a week, it worked fine, but now it's having several different problems, all of which started at about the same time. I don't see how they could all be connected, but given their timing, I thought I should post them all in the same thread just in case.
1. Sometimes it just freezes. Can't move the mouse, Ctrl+Alt+Del does nothing, have to reset. Transferring lots of data to/from my USB hard drive is almost a surefire way to trigger this, but it happens other times when the drive isn't even connected.
2. Sometimes it partially powers down. The fans are still on, including the GPU fan, but the monitor is in orange-LED power saving mode, and it won't respond unless I reset it. This usually happens either right after boot or if I leave it unattended for more than a few minutes, but has happened a couple of times while I was using it.
3. Sometimes it resets itself without warning. Other times it starts to reboot, gets as far as the GPU BIOS ("GeForce GTX 465 version blah blah blah"), then goes into the half-off state from problem 2.
4. After the above problems, there is about a 50-50 chance of the reset button only taking it to the half-off state from 2, sometimes without even showing the video BIOS screen, and the power button doing nothing, even when held down for 10 seconds.
5. I usually hibernate it when not in use, but after it reset itself while entering hibernation, it has been unable to resume properly. I thought that might be because of a corrupted file, so I got it booted, selected hibernate, and let it power off (which should have overwritten the bad hibernate data), but when I went to resume, I got as far as the Windows logo and "Resuming Windows" message, then it cut to a black, text-mode screen with a flashing cursor in the top left corner.
Relevant info:
*I had been running with the multiplier increased to 20 and vcore to 1.45, which was stable all last week, but as soon as the problems started I dropped it to stock multiplier and voltage
*I had been using MSI Afterburner to overclock the GPU to 750/1500/1700 with fans at 100%. I tried with fans set to scale up on their own once, and it froze. All the problems started after that, but I've dropped the clocks to stock (607/1215/1603) and set the fans to 100%, and it still isn't stable. I don't think the problem is the GPU, though.
*Another thing I changed before it all went pear-shaped was that I installed RivaTuner, although I only ever used the "d3doverrider" tool. I uninstalled it as soon as the problems started, just in case.
*The errors are essentially random. Sometimes I can play Crysis for hours on end, other times it freezes solid just browsing the web.
*I have reset all BIOS values to their defaults, no luck
*I enabled speedfan's logging feature, and the core and GPU temps right before a freeze are never above 40 and 50, respectively
1. Sometimes it just freezes. Can't move the mouse, Ctrl+Alt+Del does nothing, have to reset. Transferring lots of data to/from my USB hard drive is almost a surefire way to trigger this, but it happens other times when the drive isn't even connected.
2. Sometimes it partially powers down. The fans are still on, including the GPU fan, but the monitor is in orange-LED power saving mode, and it won't respond unless I reset it. This usually happens either right after boot or if I leave it unattended for more than a few minutes, but has happened a couple of times while I was using it.
3. Sometimes it resets itself without warning. Other times it starts to reboot, gets as far as the GPU BIOS ("GeForce GTX 465 version blah blah blah"), then goes into the half-off state from problem 2.
4. After the above problems, there is about a 50-50 chance of the reset button only taking it to the half-off state from 2, sometimes without even showing the video BIOS screen, and the power button doing nothing, even when held down for 10 seconds.
5. I usually hibernate it when not in use, but after it reset itself while entering hibernation, it has been unable to resume properly. I thought that might be because of a corrupted file, so I got it booted, selected hibernate, and let it power off (which should have overwritten the bad hibernate data), but when I went to resume, I got as far as the Windows logo and "Resuming Windows" message, then it cut to a black, text-mode screen with a flashing cursor in the top left corner.
Relevant info:
*I had been running with the multiplier increased to 20 and vcore to 1.45, which was stable all last week, but as soon as the problems started I dropped it to stock multiplier and voltage
*I had been using MSI Afterburner to overclock the GPU to 750/1500/1700 with fans at 100%. I tried with fans set to scale up on their own once, and it froze. All the problems started after that, but I've dropped the clocks to stock (607/1215/1603) and set the fans to 100%, and it still isn't stable. I don't think the problem is the GPU, though.
*Another thing I changed before it all went pear-shaped was that I installed RivaTuner, although I only ever used the "d3doverrider" tool. I uninstalled it as soon as the problems started, just in case.
*The errors are essentially random. Sometimes I can play Crysis for hours on end, other times it freezes solid just browsing the web.
*I have reset all BIOS values to their defaults, no luck
*I enabled speedfan's logging feature, and the core and GPU temps right before a freeze are never above 40 and 50, respectively
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