Newly built tower is glitching

[fawkestail]

Hey guys,
i recently built a tower and it's consistantly glitching (it sounds like a CD is skipping if music is playing). I work for a PC repair company and i took it in and ran multiple hardware tests on it and all passed. and it, of course, was running perfect when i took it in. We eventually narrowed it down to a possible power issue. Meaning my surge protector wasn't giving it enough juice, causing my PC to glitch. So i plugged it straight into the wall, it worked fine for awhile and went straight back to glitching. Could this possibly be a power issue with my apartment? is that even possible?

My Specs are:
Intel i7-2700K 3.5Ghz
Asus P8Z68-V Motherboard
Radeon 6950 2GB Graphics
G-Skill 12GB DDR3 1866 RAM
Cosair 650W power supply

I've ran multiple virus/malware scans, even some outside of my OS and all is clean.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[amuffin]

hard drive problem? Also why are you running 12gb of ram on a dual channel system?

 

[rds1220]

My first guess would be the HDD. Is the sound gravely like a car/truck running over gravel?

 

[fawkestail]

hard drive problem? Also why are you running 12gb of ram on a dual channel system?

No real reason, i built the tower with a friend who has the same motherboard and we split a 8GB pair since i knew i wouldn't ever come close to 16GBs. Could that be a possibly issue? His is functioning fine on 12GBs.

 

[fawkestail]

My first guess would be the HDD. Is the sound gravely like a car/truck running over gravel?

yeah, it does. I'm booting my OS off of a 60GB SSD and running all other programs and periphials off of a 1.5TB HDD.

 

[rds1220]

Then its the HDD going bad. If it's a brand new HDD I would RMA it. It might work right now but it's only a matter of time before it fails. A good HDD should not be making noises like that.

 

[fawkestail]

But how would that explain it working perfectly fine for 12+ hours where i work but as soon as i bring it back into my office in my apartment it starts back up again?

 

[rds1220]

Computer especially hardware can be weird. I had a HDD that came with my old HP that worked fine for four months. Then one day while gaming it just stopped working. The computer booted fine and everything seemed normal. I then went into COD and it started to load the map and it BSoD. Called HP and they said it was the HDD. Sure enough it was.

Here's something else and maybe someone else can give their thoughts. Is there a possiblity that it can be some sort of interference like electromagnetic or RFI.

 

[fawkestail]

So i removed my SSD and reformatted my 1.5TB and add the OS to it. And it's still glitching. Any other thoughts?

 

[rds1220]

Reformatting the HDD isn't going to do anything if there is something wrong mechanically with the HDD. Reformatting isn't going to fix the read or platters if they're screwed up. The only thing you can do is replace it or keep using it until it fails, and it will eventually fail.