General System Stability

Cavallino · 27 Nov 2013 at 11:37

So now my rig is built (thanks to everyone who helped contribute concerning the various issues/aspects during my build).

I am now conscience of general system stability.

I have kept everything at stock and I feel the system is solid (at least in Windows).

But once an evening I would come across an error or two of somekind. E.g. yesterday it was:

1) Upon closing IE, a message popped up "Internet Explorer is not responding"
2) Watching a clip in full screen on Youtube causes the screens to go black and then come back to life again but with a mesage in the bottom right corner (Display Driver not responding) or words to that effect.

Can anyone tell me what I should be looking for to diagnose and solve these issues?

Doomedspeed · 27 Nov 2013 at 11:42

Me again.

IE does sometimes do that to me, i think its just a bug it has sometimes.. Though it may be worth running Cystal Disk Mark to check your SSD speeds.

Another thing to run is Memtest 86, this will bring up any RAM errors you may have.

Also make sure you download the latest GPU drivers..

Smoogels · 27 Nov 2013 at 11:45

I'd say it's most likely a software issue. Are both these issues in IE? If so try another browser for a day and it would prob be fine.

honosuseri · 27 Nov 2013 at 12:02

Why are you using IE? All it's really good for is to download Firefox or Chrome

You really should have downloaded the latest drivers from the manufacturers website for the mobo and GPU. Anything supplied on disk with the components will be out of date. I'd avoid Beta drivers though.

Having said that, I was dragged out to look at a system the other day which was acting weird & crashing like crazy. The guy was bricking it as the error in event viewer was Northbridge fatal error (that's a part of the mobo). I quickly realised that he had the latest drivers on an old Fermi Nvidia GPU......rolled back the driver to a slightly earlier version and bingo back in business. So latest isn't necessarily the greatest, if you keep having trouble try a slightly older driver.

Hope you're happy with the rig besides the little niggles. We look forward to hearing how you get on with overclocking

Cavallino · 27 Nov 2013 at 21:14

Thanks everyone for your inputs. I just used IE in the past as Ive had no problems with it. But will consider switching ofcourse.

I also noticed that scrolling on web pages seems to be smoother and more responsive in IE than in Firefox, that's really the only reason.

1. Does anyone know how to import FAVOURITES BAR (not bookmarks) from IE to Firefox?

2. Concerning Mobo/GPU drivers which versions are the latest for the following hardware?

MSI Z87 G45
Sapphire Vapor X 280X

Thanks all!

honosuseri · 27 Nov 2013 at 22:18

I was just teasing fella. The point really was just to try something else. Browsers can use video acceleration so you can try disabling that to check but I'd be using the latest drivers first then worry what's not right.

THIS leads on to the mobos download section for the BIOS, utilites etc etc for your choice of OS.

THIS takes you to the AMD support for the GPU

Cavallino · 29 Nov 2013 at 01:11

Well I used firefox and I noticed the cursor seem to be artifacting or glitching? (it turns from an arrow into just a vertical line which is slightly corrupted).

It doesn't happen on other screens though that's the weird thing....

Cavallino · 29 Nov 2013 at 12:23

Doomedspeed said:
Me again.

IE does sometimes do that to me, i think its just a bug it has sometimes.. Though it may be worth running Cystal Disk Mark to check your SSD speeds.

Another thing to run is Memtest 86, this will bring up any RAM errors you may have.

Also make sure you download the latest GPU drivers..

Hey DS.

I ran Crystal Disk Mark and as far as I can see results look ok (I dont have a frame of reference to be honest!)

Also concerning memtest. Presumably its best to run it out of windows (i.e. from boot) which I did. I selected the first option run (sstandard one I think).
I left it to run overnight since it was quite late. Looked at the results this monring which stated it did 4 passes and 0 errors.

Checks out so far? Anything else I need to do?

I noticed that windows generally feels a little sluggish, Im not sure why this is....