Hello techies,
I am having a bit of a hard time at the moment, my homebuilt rig is freezing up intermittently while windows is loading and while in windows itself.
I have a M4A87TD EVO Mobo
Phenom X4 965 Black edition
EVGA GTX 460 Superclocked (factory) GOU
4 GIG DDR3 1666hz Ram
microsoft security essentials x64
The issues started occuring no where near any hardware changes or major software changes except I think around time I updated GPU driver.
steps I have taken so far.
Fully reinstalled windows
installed latest BIOs, chipset, GPU driver onto partitioned part of hard drive
Works fine in safe mode when left all day
ran memtest and passed all tests
installed speedfan and monitored temps, GPU is hottest and gets up to 72 degrees while gaming.
Cleaned system thorougly with compressed air and left open with house fan blowing inside
swapped out ram to different dim slots and even tried one at a time.
I am experiencing some graphical issues while gaming, some things do not load properly in UI etc but no color spikes or blurring.
no noises in hard drive at all, computer freezing on screen, no blue screen or restart and is intermittant can happen on startup while windows loading and 24 hours later.
Does not happen outside of windows.
I am going to go home and reset CMOS as I saw that when I reset BIOS only 3 of my 4 cores were activated on start up.
There are no other errors occuring to suggest CMOS battery fault, no time changes or issues booting.
HELP!!! haha I am on wits end it is driving me crazy so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated before I start systematically replacing parts starting with graphics card
Thank you!
Graham
I am having a bit of a hard time at the moment, my homebuilt rig is freezing up intermittently while windows is loading and while in windows itself.
I have a M4A87TD EVO Mobo
Phenom X4 965 Black edition
EVGA GTX 460 Superclocked (factory) GOU
4 GIG DDR3 1666hz Ram
microsoft security essentials x64
The issues started occuring no where near any hardware changes or major software changes except I think around time I updated GPU driver.
steps I have taken so far.
Fully reinstalled windows
installed latest BIOs, chipset, GPU driver onto partitioned part of hard drive
Works fine in safe mode when left all day
ran memtest and passed all tests
installed speedfan and monitored temps, GPU is hottest and gets up to 72 degrees while gaming.
Cleaned system thorougly with compressed air and left open with house fan blowing inside
swapped out ram to different dim slots and even tried one at a time.
I am experiencing some graphical issues while gaming, some things do not load properly in UI etc but no color spikes or blurring.
no noises in hard drive at all, computer freezing on screen, no blue screen or restart and is intermittant can happen on startup while windows loading and 24 hours later.
Does not happen outside of windows.
I am going to go home and reset CMOS as I saw that when I reset BIOS only 3 of my 4 cores were activated on start up.
There are no other errors occuring to suggest CMOS battery fault, no time changes or issues booting.
HELP!!! haha I am on wits end it is driving me crazy so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated before I start systematically replacing parts starting with graphics card
Thank you!
Graham