My pc is dead. Help me!

bigfeetz

bigfeetz

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To cut a long story short for the past few months ive been having various issues with my custom built pc (will post the specs at the bottom) ranging from blue screens on boot to blue screens shortly after boot!

I recently installed a new motherboard and an i7 4770k but i seem to still be having issues.

Current Issues:

-99% sure my ssd is dead, before it stopped being recognized it was failing to install windows almost as if it was struggling to write tothe drive, e.g. getting stuck at certain percentages so I had to cancel it. I will most likely send this back as it is under warranty.

-I think somethings up with my current HDD as its performing extremely slow whilst booting into windows although HDtune seems to think its fine so far.

-Windows 7/realtek HD audio manager spams "you have plugged/unplugged a device into the audio jack. Seems t be switching rapidly between speakers and hd output 2. It shows this to be happening on the front headphone jack but I dont think there is anything wrong with it as I have unplugged it from the HD audio header on the motherboard and it still occurs.

-I had it up and running fine for a little bit then I decided to install amd's latest drivers. This seems to caused it to blue screen immediately after bios causing me to think there was something wrong with my R9 280x so I have my old GTX 660 connected at the moment just to be safe as I know this to be a working card.

-Going to run memtest after I create this thread to double check the memory.

I think that's about it folks, i'm at the end of my patience with this machine. I want to find out whats causing it and fix it so I can have my machine working again.

Edit; Forgot the specs -

-i7 4770k
-Asus Gryphon Mobo
-750w psu for which the brand I cannot mention =P
-R9 280x (currently gtx 660 installed)
-12gb of 1600mhz ram (4gb corsair vengence, 8gb of crucial ballistix sport).
-128gb OCZ vector SSD
-500gb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
-NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full tower case

If anyone can help this would be greatly appreciated, the i7-4770k was an early christmas present and I am absolutely dying to make the most of it.
 
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Have you tried just running it with Crucial ram(2x4GB)
Is your ssd running the latest FW and test your hdd with Seagatetools for windows.
 
You've said OCZ Vector...do you mean Vertex? Which version of the SSD is it exactly?

I had problems with my i7 4770k/Z87 intermittently not recognising my OCZ Vertex 2E and getting BSODs, which I tracked down to an incompatibility issue between the Sandforce SF12xx controller (which the Vertex 2 range uses) and the Z87 chipset.

If your SSD uses the same controller this COULD be the root of your problems.
 
bigfeetz said:
Edit; Forgot the specs -

-i7 4770k
-Asus Gryphon Mobo
-750w psu for which the brand I cannot mention =P
-R9 280x (currently gtx 660 installed)
-12gb of 1600mhz ram (4gb corsair vengence, 8gb of crucial ballistix sport).
-128gb OCZ vector SSD
-500gb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
-NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full tower case

If anyone can help this would be greatly appreciated, the i7-4770k was an early christmas present and I am absolutely dying to make the most of it.
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Is that Ram 1x4 and 1x8 ? Or do you have 3x4Gb sticks ?
 
Running seatools right now, also memcheck was fine. The ssd is a 128gb OCZ Vector it can be found on their website if you search google =)
 
Seatools was fine, maybe its just me. I will try with just 8gb of ram. And how would I update the firmware if I can only on occasion find the SSD drive on the bios.
 
bigfeetz said:
Seatools was fine, maybe its just me. I will try with just 8gb of ram. And how would I update the firmware if I can only on occasion find the SSD drive on the bios.
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Is the SSD connected to one of the SATA ports controlled by the Intel chipset?

If so, and you have an alterantive SATA port (normally a different colour connector) then you could try it on that. It might be a bit slower but at least this would allow you to check if it's a compatibility issue or something else.
 
For now im retracing my steps that caused me to blue screen before when i was using my SSD to see if it was an issue caused by the SSD or by the graphics card/drivers. But yeah

-Sound issue is related to the motherboard not software (tested this extensively) will either return it if its easy to do so or buy a sound card
-SSD - Who knows, ill test this more later if the graphics drivers install correctly
-Graphics - Will find out shortly if its going to play nicely or not ^^
 
The graphics driver installed correctly. Apart from the sound issues im thinking my BSOD's were caused by the SSD drive. I reackon installing it onto the SSD if it was corrupt may have just completely corrupt the operating system.
 
Havana you mentioned issues with an OCZ ssd and these motherboards. At the moment the motherboard recognizes the ssd in bios (name, size and all) but windows will not boot from my HDD with it connected, it simply hangs on the windows logo forever. Did you ever fix these issues?
 
What brand PSU? (could be a problem if it is a generic brand)

Have you tried taking out one set of RAM, reset CMOS and reinstall windows with only the SSD attached? (maybe use onboard GPU to begin with)

Mentioning the RAM and CMOS in case you have set XMP profile for mixed sets.
 
bigfeetz said:
Havana you mentioned issues with an OCZ ssd and these motherboards. At the moment the motherboard recognizes the ssd in bios (name, size and all) but windows will not boot from my HDD with it connected, it simply hangs on the windows logo forever. Did you ever fix these issues?
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The problem I mentioned was specifically related to SSDs using the Sandforce SF12xx controllers. The OCZ Vertex 2E was a drive that used this controller, and I wasn't aware that there was a product from them called Vector, which is why I asked if you meant Vertex. The Vector doesn't use this controller, so the issue that I referred to is not relevant in your case.
 
freddie64 said:
What brand PSU? (could be a problem if it is a generic brand)

Have you tried taking out one set of RAM, reset CMOS and reinstall windows with only the SSD attached? (maybe use onboard GPU to begin with)

Mentioning the RAM and CMOS in case you have set XMP profile for mixed sets.
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It's a rebranded unit from an OcUK competitor, so it can't be mentioned here. Not sure if it's a generic el cheapo but some of the 750W units they sell are £18...

Bigfeetz, you can't say here where you bought the PSU, but can you tell us how much you paid for it to give some idea of the quality please?
 
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