New Build Serious Crashing Issues?

Hyper

Hyper

Hyper

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Hi,

Just after some advice, I recently ordered the following parts to upgrade my system in preperation for Battlefield 3:

Intel i5-2500K
Asus P8Z68-V
Corsair 2x4GB
Crucial M4 SSD
Gelid Tranquillo

I was going to use these parts along side my current setup of:

Corsair HX520W
Samsung F1 HDD
Western Digital 500GB HDD
Nvidia 8800GT 512mb (plan was to upgrade just before bf3).

The build went fine and the system booted up as normal, first thing I did was upgrade the Crucial M4 to firmware 009 then installed Windows 7 Home Premium and everythings seemed normal. After a few hours I noticed the system was crashing now and again but I thought nothing of it,

This problem seems to be getting worse to the point now where firefox is crashing to desktop a lot, I am getting errors when trying to install even small applications, updating bad company 2 took 4 attempts crashing every other time. Now I find bad company 2 is crashing to desktop aswell sometimes after 1 round or sometimes straight away, I have searched around just to try and fix this error, updated punkbuster, updated to my direct x 11 but still no joy.

Now bad company 2 isnt my real issue but the fact my newly build system is freezing and crashing so much has me concerned but I have no idea where to even start, I was thinking of trying another fresh install of windows 7 but is this more likely to be hardware related?

Any advice would be great,

Thanks, Sam
 
I would take the 8800GT out and use the onboard, if Firefox doent crash etc then its either card/PSU related possibly.

Also check theres no dust in the PCI-E slot for the card, I have seen some guy on here with random crashing that turned out to be some fluff in the slot.

Run Mem-test to check for faulty RAM, try one stick at a time with the 8800GT still fitted.

Is there a BIOS update for the board? try that.
 
Took my 8800GT out and tried a spot of bad company 2 on very low settings, same issues, firstly a bsod and then a crash to desktop.

Does that rule the graphics card out of this?

Whats the chance of it being a failing psu.

Thanks, Sam
 
I think thats the GPU ruled out, next is one stick of RAM at a time and also download MEM-TEST.
 
Put the graphics card back in and ran memtest over night with both sticks of memory still installed, no errors.

For some reason I have a bad feeling about these other two hard drives running along side my SSD, one still has my old windows 7 install on it aswell as I havent had chance to format it yet.

Could this be causing issues?
 
Make sure the SSD with the OS is connected to a Intel SATA port and not a Marvell one.

By all means wipe the HDD's clean.

Something to check in the BIOS is "PLL over voltage protection" (may be worded slightly different), what ever it is set too, try the opposite. I.E - from Disabled to Enabled.
 
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Just checked and I had already set it to disable,

Think its worth setting it to enable even though I am running at stock?
 
Yes,

I unplugged everything else, updated the firmware and then installed windows 7, then plugged in my other hard drives.

I will try enabling PLL now.
 
I have also noticed some artifacting in bad company 2, sometimes only small black blocks and other times big black lines running across my screen,

Making me think more and more it has to either be my graphics card or power supply?
 
Some other things to try-

1. Install some temperature monitoring software to check the CPU temperature.
2. Check for any stability issues with current motherboard BIOS.
3. Disable reboot on crash, and lookup blue screen error when it next crashes.
4. SSD 'should' be fine, but might be worth trying a Windows install on another disk to rule that out.
 
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Installed some temp monitor software and everything seems normal,

CPU temp not going above 40c really and 30 at idle and GPU temp is 50c idle and 70c load which is normal apparantly.
 
you tried running as a mininmal install, 1 stick memory, gfx card, boot drive only ?

making sure all power connectors are removed from hd's etc.
 
Hyper said:
Making me think more and more it has to either be my graphics card or power supply?
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You get the same thing without the GPU, so that must be ruled out.

Try with the 8800GT, but disable the onboard GPU in the BIOS.
 
Thanks for all the advice so far,

I have now unplugged both the other HDD's and just left my SSD plugged in,

I also changed my FSB frequency (is it even fsb anymore?) to 99 instead of 100 as I remember people ages ago mentioning a 100 setting can cause issues with this gpu?

I have now been playing BC2 for a good 3 round with no crashes or anything so this is progress atleast!
 
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I also changed my FSB frequency (is it even fsb anymore?) to 99 instead of 100 as I remember people ages ago mentioning a 100 setting can cause issues with this gpu?

I have now been playing BC2 for a good 3 round with no crashes or anything so this is progress atleast!
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cool :)

other option if it has issues again is to try changing the pci-e to 101 from 99 see if that helps any better.
 
Set it to 101 now and will see how it goes,

Not sure if thats what fixed things though or unplugging the hard drives,

Suppose I will just have to plug them back in at some point and see if the issues return.
 
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