Hey, guys.
I've been running Windows 7 on my sig rig for past few months, and it's consistently been rock solid. It's also important to note that I haven't overclocked any of my hardware -- everything is running on stock clocks.
Since yesterday, however, I've been getting some bizarre and frustrating system instability, and I'm not really sure why.
I haven't done anything to the computer recently -- haven't messed with the hardware, etc. I also haven't really done anything to the system itself, as far as I can remember -- just changed some audio settings a week ago (24bit/192Khz for my sound card), and I installed the new Nvidia 310.90 driver (also a week ago). However, the instability only showed up suddenly and randomly a day ago.
I first noticed it when I launched Chrome. I tend to have between 30 and 50 tabs open at any time and I noticed that, once it finished loading, it took a long time to switch between them (a couple seconds, instead of instantly). I think it took longer for flashy pages (i.e. youtube videos). When I tried to run a video game (The Old Republic) while leaving the browser open, it instantly crashed after I signed in, and I got a "Your computer is running low on memory" error -- which is unlikely, since I have 16GB of RAM. I've also had other programs crash at random (or perhaps more likely, when they're doing a lot of things -- both CCleaner and Chrome have crashed as well).
I figured that the reason for the instability was my RAM, so I booted up Memtest86+ and let it run overnight (10 passes). It reported no errors.
So, I'm pretty lost as to where the problem is. The only other culprits I can think of are my motherboard or my OS (i.e. a malfunctioning driver), but I'm not really sure how to test that. I don't have another rig that I can hook up the motherboard to, and I'd rather not have to use a restore point unless it's highly likely that it's OS/software-based.
What do you guys think?
Thanks for your time and help!
Edited by 13ack.Stab - 1/13/13 at 7:52am
I've been running Windows 7 on my sig rig for past few months, and it's consistently been rock solid. It's also important to note that I haven't overclocked any of my hardware -- everything is running on stock clocks.
Since yesterday, however, I've been getting some bizarre and frustrating system instability, and I'm not really sure why.
I haven't done anything to the computer recently -- haven't messed with the hardware, etc. I also haven't really done anything to the system itself, as far as I can remember -- just changed some audio settings a week ago (24bit/192Khz for my sound card), and I installed the new Nvidia 310.90 driver (also a week ago). However, the instability only showed up suddenly and randomly a day ago.
I first noticed it when I launched Chrome. I tend to have between 30 and 50 tabs open at any time and I noticed that, once it finished loading, it took a long time to switch between them (a couple seconds, instead of instantly). I think it took longer for flashy pages (i.e. youtube videos). When I tried to run a video game (The Old Republic) while leaving the browser open, it instantly crashed after I signed in, and I got a "Your computer is running low on memory" error -- which is unlikely, since I have 16GB of RAM. I've also had other programs crash at random (or perhaps more likely, when they're doing a lot of things -- both CCleaner and Chrome have crashed as well).
I figured that the reason for the instability was my RAM, so I booted up Memtest86+ and let it run overnight (10 passes). It reported no errors.
So, I'm pretty lost as to where the problem is. The only other culprits I can think of are my motherboard or my OS (i.e. a malfunctioning driver), but I'm not really sure how to test that. I don't have another rig that I can hook up the motherboard to, and I'd rather not have to use a restore point unless it's highly likely that it's OS/software-based.
What do you guys think?
Thanks for your time and help!
Edited by 13ack.Stab - 1/13/13 at 7:52am
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