Hey guys, specs below:
Intel Core i7 3930k|ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional|Corsair TX850W|2xEVGA GTX 670 FTW|G.Skill 4x4GB Ripjaws X|Cooler Master HAF 932|Corsair H100|Windows 7 64 Bit|WD Caviar Black 750GB|Intel 520 120GB|BenQ XL2420T|Logitech G9x|CM Trigger
I have recently been having a lot of trouble with my system. As soon as I added my second 670 in SLI, I was having random reboots and crashes. It was brought to my attention that my supplemental PCI power connector needed to be connected when operating in SLI, so I connected that and started having consistent 116 error codes at load. I raised the VTT and the VCCSA a smidge and increased the VDIMM from 1.5 to 1.52, all problems gone.
Until today, about a week later. I come home after about 5 hours of my PC being off, and upon turning it on it would not post and I had a b9 code on the mobo, meaning bad memory. I tested each stick individually and found one stick to be bad. System boots fine without this stick. RAM was not overclocked whatsoever and I was not stress testing prior to turning my PC off. Now, while I was dealing with the previous issue, my PSU got extremely hot and I thought I solved the problem when my 8 pin CPU power plug was loose, but obviously only what I did above fixed the problem. Sometimes while gaming I would get a weird whiff of something, not bad smelling, but just hot with a weird tinge of something I couldn't put my nose on. I asked others if they smelled anything and everyone else said it smelled fine, so I ignored it. This probably isn't the problem as I can be paranoid sometimes, but I felt it was worth mentioning. My PSU is also over 3 years old. Could this stress have caused my RAM stick to go bad, or is it more than likely just a fault of the RAM in the first place?
I imagine most of you are just going to say, "RMA the RAM stick and keep using it. If another stick goes bad then you should look at either the mobo VRM or the PSU." Problem is, I'm going off to college in less than a week, and it's going to take me a looooong time to get a new RAM stick (can't RMA it now because it will come back to my parents' house, mailbox doesn't open immediately upon moving there, etc etc). So if any of you have any idea what could be going on, help would be much appreciated. Should I get a new PSU? Wait it out and see if another stick goes bad? Losing the one stick isn't a huge deal to me as I know I can get it replaced, but if my PSU is taking out my RAM it could lead to taking out other things as well. I would like to know if any of you have any insight to this.
Thank you all very much.
Intel Core i7 3930k|ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional|Corsair TX850W|2xEVGA GTX 670 FTW|G.Skill 4x4GB Ripjaws X|Cooler Master HAF 932|Corsair H100|Windows 7 64 Bit|WD Caviar Black 750GB|Intel 520 120GB|BenQ XL2420T|Logitech G9x|CM Trigger
I have recently been having a lot of trouble with my system. As soon as I added my second 670 in SLI, I was having random reboots and crashes. It was brought to my attention that my supplemental PCI power connector needed to be connected when operating in SLI, so I connected that and started having consistent 116 error codes at load. I raised the VTT and the VCCSA a smidge and increased the VDIMM from 1.5 to 1.52, all problems gone.
Until today, about a week later. I come home after about 5 hours of my PC being off, and upon turning it on it would not post and I had a b9 code on the mobo, meaning bad memory. I tested each stick individually and found one stick to be bad. System boots fine without this stick. RAM was not overclocked whatsoever and I was not stress testing prior to turning my PC off. Now, while I was dealing with the previous issue, my PSU got extremely hot and I thought I solved the problem when my 8 pin CPU power plug was loose, but obviously only what I did above fixed the problem. Sometimes while gaming I would get a weird whiff of something, not bad smelling, but just hot with a weird tinge of something I couldn't put my nose on. I asked others if they smelled anything and everyone else said it smelled fine, so I ignored it. This probably isn't the problem as I can be paranoid sometimes, but I felt it was worth mentioning. My PSU is also over 3 years old. Could this stress have caused my RAM stick to go bad, or is it more than likely just a fault of the RAM in the first place?
I imagine most of you are just going to say, "RMA the RAM stick and keep using it. If another stick goes bad then you should look at either the mobo VRM or the PSU." Problem is, I'm going off to college in less than a week, and it's going to take me a looooong time to get a new RAM stick (can't RMA it now because it will come back to my parents' house, mailbox doesn't open immediately upon moving there, etc etc). So if any of you have any idea what could be going on, help would be much appreciated. Should I get a new PSU? Wait it out and see if another stick goes bad? Losing the one stick isn't a huge deal to me as I know I can get it replaced, but if my PSU is taking out my RAM it could lead to taking out other things as well. I would like to know if any of you have any insight to this.
Thank you all very much.
