Is my computer doomed?

MajoritySix

MajoritySix

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Hey,

My desktop is driving me crazy and I'm hoping you guys will know what I should do :)

I built it a good few years ago. It's got a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P-B3 motherboard, an i5 processor, 6GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 6980. It's in a HAF case.

I was using two really old hard-drives, so it did check-disc every time I started up, on both drives. It would always freeze in the same place. I figured they were just too old and bought a Samsung EVO 500GB SSD last week, which I installed, and downloaded Windows 10 64-bit.

It doesn't seem to have fixed the problem...Neither case button works properly to turn off the machine, both the "off" button and the "restart" button just restart the computer. It always fails the first restart tried with those buttons. It gets down to the "Memory Frequency" part of the start-up screen and then restarts. Second time it starts up fine. It always starts up fine if I tell the computer to turn off/restart. It turns on fine using the "on" button, too.

I installed the Gigabyte app centre yesterday and let it update all the drivers it felt it needed. It downloaded a few then started blue-screening on start-up, with the error "System Server Exception." I had to totally format and reinstall Windows.

I've done the Windows memory test, it seems fine. I've tested all the RAM sticks one by one, and the start-up error happens on all of them... I could replace them but I'm worried that won't fix the problem.

It's a lovely machine when it's on and working! I can use it all day and it'll be fine.

Thanks :)
 
Thank you all!

I've reset the BIOS, and checked the header settings. I'll take the motherboard out next and check it's seated correctly.

I don't have the old hard drives connected at the moment and I didn't clone them - it's just a total fresh install.

I don't think it's overclocked at the moment, either. My PSU is a Corsair Gaming System 800W 80 Plus.

I did just notice that my CPU temperatures are pretty high... around 80 usually, spiking to 98 before it shuts down. I tried playing Company of Heroes 2 today and about 45 minutes in, the CPU hit 98 degrees and shut the computer down. On restart I got a BSOD with "IRQL Not Less or Equal" on it...

New CPU? Or new fan and coolant?

I'll admit that my CPU cooler is old and it's probably out of coolant. I also broke it whilst installing it... the frame is sellotaped together.

Thanks again for all the help, appreciated :)
 
It hasn't fixed :(

I've fitted a new CPU fan today, which is doing well - current temps 33 degrees.

No restart issues recently, either...

But playing Command of Heroes 2 earlier, it crashed to a bright blue screen and restarted the computer after a while. Tried again, after 15 mins or so, it crashed with a "bugsplat" screen. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but no good. Third time round it did a BSOD with "IRQL Not Less or Equal" again.

Temps seem fine, drivers are all up to date... I'm so frustrated!

Any more thoughts, please? I'm running latency monitor at the moment, which started off saying the system is fine but is now saying underruns might cause issues, but I don't really understand the tool if I'm honest.
 
mickyflinn said:
Download msi afterburner and see what max temps ar under stress/gameplay
Click to expand...

Afterburner shows my CPU1 temperature at 75 degrees even just on the desktop...

Intel has found chipset drivers that it feels I need - USB controllers - but it keeps saying there are files missing and won't install them, so only my USB 3 ports work now, too. I can make the front case USBs work but it crashes my display driver and Windows turns them off again whilst "successfully restoring" the graphics.

I don't understand how a fresh install of Windows can be so broken...
 
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That's what this means, right? I'm doubting myself now :(
 
Hi all,

I thought I'd update!

It seems to have been a RAM problem, despite it passing MEM64. Replacing the RAM has completely stopped all the problems, including the weird start-up issue, and the new CPU cooler has reduced temperatures so they're never higher than around 40 degrees C.

I also rolled back the motherboard driver to an older one, which has made the USB ports functional again - it seems the driver has some kind of interaction issue with Windows 10.

It's worked fine all week, doing everything from working all day to video editing and playing multiple games of COH in a row. It's flawless.

Thank you all for your help, and for putting up with my strop when I misread Afterburner... I'm a logical girl, it irritated me that I couldn't get it working :)
 
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