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any1 else get any weird lockups? especially playing sound?
i have a 2500k in a z77 pro3(i think it's the cheapest rendition) with 8gb of ram which i primarily use for surfing the web and listening/watching streams on twitch.tv or own3d.tv.
my gf comes over to play diablo3 a few times a week and the machine would completely lock sometimes while playing d3. the screen locks up and the sound just keeps repeating.
i've done a number of stress tests and system checks and everything always passes with no issues. i ran win7's disk check and defrag software weekly.
in terms of video card, im running an evga geforce 560 with the latest 300 series driver and im currently using the realtek 2.6x audio drivers. i was using the realtek 2.70 drivers and after the frequent lockups, i tried downgrading to the 2.66 drivers. i might try going back to the 2.70 drivers. im also running the latest z77 pro3 bios.
i ran all of these tests without any problems. and temps seem normal. im not overclocking at all.
prime95 - ran for 72 hours without issues
memtest86 - ran for a 5 days
furmark - 10 hours
occt - 8 hours each(power/cpu/gpu)
intelburntest - 10 hours
gpuz's video renderer - 10 hours
msi afterburners test - 8 hours
I actually also have these strange lockups. I have the Asrock z77 extreme9 with core i5 3570k and asus gtx 460 video card.
For me I noticed that it happens when there is intense load on the GPU (when running benchmarks or testing GPU using occt ).
For the extreme9 the recommendation is to use the PCIE2 if you have just a single video card, and that's what I did and I get these lockups.
When I tried to switch the video card and put it into the PCIE1 slot, it actually resolved the issue. (so far at least I didn't get any lockups. I just tried this yesterday)
I sent an e-mail to Asrock support on this issue and I'm waiting for an answer.
May you can also try and switch the video card to a different slot, just to see if it makes a difference.
