- Oct 21, 2012
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...Or at least my gaming rig. Ever since I upgraded the motherboard and CPU I've had problems. I should have taken care of it earlier and RMA'd but I waited forever. Well now I've had a new motherboard and it's been great for a month or so. No blue screens, game crashes, or anything of note. Until now. Now I'm scared to just turn it on. I guess I should preface this by saying that I turned on the CPU overclock tuner to auto in the BIOS two days ago. I have a very good CPU fan so I figured why not? I noticed a drop in performance immediately, so I reverted back to defaults. Then all hell broke loose.
I started to notice all of my games were starting to crash. Constantly. Usually under any decent amount of load as in right away. Then my computer just BSOD'd twice while trying to rip a Blu Ray onto my hard drive, which I've done dozens of times without problems. Then it failed to update. I did a system restore to five days ago, before the issues arose, but it did absolutely nothing. In fact, I tried playing two games and they crashed during. Now my computer just BSOD'd twice before I could even open Chrome.
I just don't even know what to troubleshoot. When I had issues before with my old motherboard, I tested all of my hardware and it came out clean. I guess it is possible that the motherboard ASUS sent my is crap, but I don't know. It's depressing. I may just do another Windows reinstall, but I doubt that will do anything besides pass the time.
Specs:
Windows 8 64 bit
i7 3770k
ASUS Maximus V Gene
Radeon 7970
12GB DDR3 1600Mhz
WD 2TB Hard Drive
Samsung 830 256GB
Blu Ray Drive
I started to notice all of my games were starting to crash. Constantly. Usually under any decent amount of load as in right away. Then my computer just BSOD'd twice while trying to rip a Blu Ray onto my hard drive, which I've done dozens of times without problems. Then it failed to update. I did a system restore to five days ago, before the issues arose, but it did absolutely nothing. In fact, I tried playing two games and they crashed during. Now my computer just BSOD'd twice before I could even open Chrome.
I just don't even know what to troubleshoot. When I had issues before with my old motherboard, I tested all of my hardware and it came out clean. I guess it is possible that the motherboard ASUS sent my is crap, but I don't know. It's depressing. I may just do another Windows reinstall, but I doubt that will do anything besides pass the time.
Specs:
Windows 8 64 bit
i7 3770k
ASUS Maximus V Gene
Radeon 7970
12GB DDR3 1600Mhz
WD 2TB Hard Drive
Samsung 830 256GB
Blu Ray Drive
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