Really Weird Issue....

tomw92 · 19 Oct 2013 at 19:28

Hey Guys,

Pulling my hair out with this one. Since I moved back to uni, my pc has kept crashing, not just a standard lockup no...

But a crazy lines on screen freeze (image below). I've done the usual of taking the machine apart, clean, put back together, check all connections etc but it's still happening. Mainly when doing anything CPU intensive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, it's killing me.

System specs:

AMD Phenom II x4
8GB DDR3
SSD
750w PSU
Sapphire HD 7850 GPU

ExRayTed · 19 Oct 2013 at 19:33

That looks like either dying RAM or GPU to me. Tried resetting the BIOS?

snips86x · 19 Oct 2013 at 19:34

Anything overclocked?

tomw92 · 19 Oct 2013 at 20:11

Tried the bios reset, clear cmos etc and still the same. Nothing overclocked either, completely stock. Thanks for the replies guys!

wazza300 · 19 Oct 2013 at 20:16

what make/model ssd?

does it do that in the bios? and have you set the power control slider in ccc/overdrive settings to 20%? might help

tomw92 · 19 Oct 2013 at 20:21

Its an OCZ-Vertex 2 100gb and I'll try bumping that up, thanks

I can't recall it doing this in bios, only when running games or VMware

Glanza · 19 Oct 2013 at 20:24

Looks like a faulty gpu.

wazza300 · 19 Oct 2013 at 20:24

could be simple as the power control slider

mine craps out unless I set it to 10% some need full 20%,doesn't add any voltage just raises the thermal limit of the card

tomw92 · 19 Oct 2013 at 20:27

wazza300 said:
could be simple as the power control slider

mine craps out unless I set it to 10% some need full 20%,doesn't add any voltage just raises the thermal limit of the card

Just tried it at 20% and went to launch a VM and same result! Thanks for the suggestion though mate.

wazza300 · 19 Oct 2013 at 20:28

try xmp for your memory in the bios

and maybe try a touch more cpu northbridge voltage or a higher level loadline calibration

Bart_Hunt · 19 Oct 2013 at 20:28

I had similar thing on my dell laptop, gpu burned.

zola25 · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:30

Do you have a spare GPU you can try?

tomw92 · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:12

zola25 said:
Do you have a spare GPU you can try?

Zola, my mobo has onboard, worth a shot?

Glanza · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:13

tomw92 said:
Zola, my mobo has onboard, worth a shot?

Yup, will eliminate if it yours gpu or not

QlimaxUK · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:18

remove gpu, plug video cable into mobo, run superpi or something to test

tomw92 · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:44

Giggz said:
Yup, will eliminate if it yours gpu or not

Okay, so I'm now running with onboard and instead of the horizontal lines, it now just reboots. Whats next?

nick.lidgett · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:50

Fill your basket in the ocuk store and hope hitachi finance accepts you

zola25 · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:51

tomw92 said:
Okay, so I'm now running with onboard and instead of the horizontal lines, it now just reboots. Whats next?

At what point does it reboot?

tomw92 · 20 Oct 2013 at 14:04

zola25 said:
At what point does it reboot?

As soon as I try to load a VM. I've tried running each stick of ram individually and also taken out everything non-essential.

zola25 · 20 Oct 2013 at 15:53

tomw92 said:
As soon as I try to load a VM. I've tried running each stick of ram individually and also taken out everything non-essential.

Anything useful in the windows event logs?

Might also be worth checking you've not accidentally disabled virtualisation whilst in your bios.