Faulty hardware or something else causing this?

Jasseh · 13 Dec 2013 at 22:31

I've been using it for years lol. Other than a bit of a delay in it starting it doesn't seem to be causing any problems so I'll continue using it.

Jasseh · 14 Dec 2013 at 14:42

BSOD twice before I went to bed last night (Memory_Management and Page_Error_In_Non_Paged_Area) so I started memtest running and went to sleep. Woke up to this:

Allowed it to do 1 more pass to check if errors were coming up during any other tests, they all appeared to be from Test 10 though.

Tested both RAM sticks individually in each slot and got no errors. Placed both back into the slots I took them out of and tested again, no errors. I figure they must not have been seated properly after I last moved my PC.

Go back to using the PC as normal. No games running yet, just web browsing and 1 virtual machine (not using much resources) then all of a sudden this happens:

Ran memtest again, 0 errors.

Is my graphics card failing now? Is my PC ever going to just work?

wazza300 · 14 Dec 2013 at 20:25

can you set xmp for your memory?

tried with a touch more imc voltage?

tipes · 14 Dec 2013 at 20:34

Looking at the above screens - could be a problem with GPU memory.Have you got a spare GPU known working to substitute and re test? Or use onboard VGA?

Mark

McstylisT · 14 Dec 2013 at 20:41

yeah looks like your underwater or something. Is that also lines i can see in the screen ?

Try the i7 IGPU maybe see what happens.

Jasseh · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:24

wazza300 said:
can you set xmp for your memory?

tried with a touch more imc voltage?

Xmp is already set for the memory, only 1 option available "profile1" to set it at 1600. I've tried +0.15 SA and IO voltage, didn't stop the memtest errors before reseating the RAM.

tipes said:
Looking at the above screens - could be a problem with GPU memory.Have you got a spare GPU known working to substitute and re test? Or use onboard VGA?

Mark

No spare GPU, I did RMA this card before due to it having an intermittent problem but I got it back as working OK because the problem didn't show up during OCUK's 24 hours of testing. It wasn't quite the same though, the entire screen froze and made whatever audio was playing at the time stutter the last 1-2 seconds pre-freeze repeatedly.

McstylisT said:
yeah looks like your underwater or something. Is that also lines i can see in the screen ?

Try the i7 IGPU maybe see what happens.

The purple/green lines in the 3rd photo are just from using a camera to take a photo of the screen and weren't actually visible on the screen. It was just the artefacting (which got worse every time I moved the mouse).

If it happens again I will remove the GPU and try the on board graphics.

I would prefer it were the GPU to any other part of the PC as I'm intending to replace that ASAP anyway (although that may not be until the end of Feb). If it is something fixable that would be even better though obviously. Right now I couldn't even afford to send something in for RMA

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