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Beyond a joke now

I hope updating the bios sorted this problem for you Auraomega. Last year a friend of mine was having very similar problems to you, random BSoD's after upgrading some memory and GPU. I had a look for him and the first thing i did was check his bios, which i found out was an old bios. I updated the Bios and that sorted the problem.
 
Unfortunately the crashes take a few months to begin, and since totally removing the graphics drivers has fixed the problem (for now) it's hard to tell if an update has done any good. I have been having a discussion with OcUK about the mobo and they're being helpful, hopefully it won't turn out to be faulty (not only will I feel like a fool, I'll have to strip my system down); it's good to know that they're willing to help out though.
 
This actually sounds very much how my OCZ StealthXstream 600Watt started behaving then after months of doing that the PSU died completely seen other posts on the OCZ forums about these PSU's and they seem to die rather a lot :rolleyes:

My best advice would be get hold of another PSU from somewhere to test with after I changed to my current corsair one my computer never failed to power up properly.....
 
How would you suggest testing the PSU? I mean I've had pretty much every piece of hardware suggested to me now, so I'll list what I've done and any suggestions after that I will try.

HDD - Smart test all passed
Graphics - ATITool + Rthdribl
CPU - Prime95
RAM - Prime95 + Memtest
PSU - DMM

Obviously I could just replace the PSU, but it can take months for the issue to resurface, and I could end up replacing a part that's working fine. What sort of power PSU would I be needing to run my system anyway, 5850 and an i5? I might keep my eyes peeled on the MM for a cheap PSU and give it a try.

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I also ran P95 and Rthdribl together, the 12v rail dropped from 11.51v to 11.39v according to SpeedFan (obviously being software take it with a pinch of salt). My understanding is the 12v rail has a tolerance of 10%, so 10.8 - 13.2v would be the safe zone and the drop between idle and stressed doesn't seem that bad, either.
 
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A drop to 11.39v is quite a large voltage drop and theres no such thing as a 10% tolerance on the 12v rail even running p95 and furmark my 12v rail doesn't drop below 12v.

With my old OCZ psu sometimes when you'd switch the machine on and it would power up but not post and I'd have to keep switching it on and off, unplugging it and leaving it to get it to power up properly again! I'd guess your 700watt model is nearly identical on the inside as my 600watt.

12v tolerance is actually 5% 11.40v - 12.60v
 
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Interesting. I'll open the case up and check the voltage on the molex, if it drops below 11.4v I'd say that would be reason enough to RMA the supply, correct?
 
Hmm, I personally wouldn't say its an AMD problem, sounds like something else is at fault.
 
skanky said:
sorry but thinking like that is exactly why i dont buy from ebay. if its a problem with the card, all is going to happen is that the OP will get found out and have to refund it the person who brought it?

if its still in warranty, RMA surely?
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The person who brought it? Where did they bring it?
 
It's bought, not brought:

bought past participle, past tense of buy (Verb)
1. Obtain in exchange for payment: "find some money to buy a house"; "he bought me a new dress"; "no interest in buying into an entertainment company".
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brought past participle, past tense of bring (Verb)
1. Come to a place with (someone or something): "she brought Luke home"; "Liz brought her a glass of water".
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Mr Krugga said:
HOLY **** THIS THING IS WATCHING ME


Have you checked all voltages when booting up/stress testing and in idle?

If the PC works for a couple of weeks and then it doesn't, it's most likely one of the components failing, not a software issues.
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I have one MUCH worse than that which happened earlier...

Yeah, I've opened another thread on general hardware as it seems unanimous that it's a hardware fault rather than graphics drivers. Linky.

Voltages are fine, this is with a multimeter rather than software, too.
 
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