[oni]

I'm having some issues with some random crashing and I'm wondering if it's motherboard/driver/OS related. It's my sig rig. I've even set it at stock settings to see if it was the overclock and it still does the same thing.

Basically, I'll be fine and out of no where, some hideous noise starts coming out of my speakers, my USB mouse and keyboard lose power (lights go out), and the screen freezes. I hard reset it and everything runs fine. The odd thing is it could either be 1 hour or 1 week before it does it, and the same thing doesn't always set it off.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[munaim1]

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Originally Posted by oni I'm having some issues with some random crashing and I'm wondering if it's motherboard/driver/OS related. It's my sig rig. I've even set it at stock settings to see if it was the overclock and it still does the same thing. Basically, I'll be fine and out of no where, some hideous noise starts coming out of my speakers, my USB mouse and keyboard lose power (lights go out), and the screen freezes. I hard reset it and everything runs fine. The odd thing is it could either be 1 hour or 1 week before it does it, and the same thing doesn't always set it off. Any help would be much appreciated.

well i can see that you have 8gb of RAM. my adive will be take out the rams and start by using one then two then three so on and each time run memtest just to see if your Rams are ok.

 

[x2s3w4]

I gotta agree. Either it's a RAM issue or a driver issue most likely.

 

[oni]

well, memtest came back perfect as it did when i built the rig. I'm going to start wiping and reinstalling all my drivers.

 

[ericeod]

Do you have loadline calibration enabled in bios? it has been known to cause random crashing (mostly at idle) with 45nm CPUs. If it is, try disabling it and see what happens. Note that you might have to lower your OC, or increase vcore to compensate for vdroop.

Some threads worth reading:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=3184&p=6

http://www.xtremesystems.org/FORUMS/...d.php?t=202660

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

http://www.overclock.net/intel-mothe...libration.html

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=557653

 

[whtwrnglrx06]

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Originally Posted by ericeod Do you have loadline calibration enabled in bios? it has been known to cause random crashing (mostly at idle) with 45nm CPUs. If it is, try disabling it and see what happens. Note that you might have to lower your OC, or increase vcore to compensate for vdroop.

OP said he has everthing back to stock

 

[ericeod]

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Originally Posted by whtwrnglrx06 OP said he has everthing back to stock

Sorry, but I dont read into that as having LLC disabled. My post is only pointing out the possible reasons for random crashes.

Just trying to help...

What do you think the problem could be?

 

[oni]

It seems to have been the video drivers. The problem hasn't reoccured since I did a full driver wipe and reinstalled the 180 series forceware drivers. I was using one or two releases before the 180s, can't remember the number.