New Build Serious Crashing Issues?

Hyper · 18 Sep 2011 at 23:37

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

Hyper · 19 Sep 2011 at 00:33

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

Hyper · 19 Sep 2011 at 12:16

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?

Hyper · 19 Sep 2011 at 12:57

Just checked and I had already set it to disable,

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

Hyper · 19 Sep 2011 at 13:16

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.

Hyper · 19 Sep 2011 at 13:26

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?

Hyper · 19 Sep 2011 at 13:42

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.

Hyper · 19 Sep 2011 at 15:28

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!

Hyper · 19 Sep 2011 at 16:11

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.

Hyper · 20 Sep 2011 at 00:57

It seems the actual issue comes about when i set my cpu voltage manually, as i found when i tried to overclock again, set the voltage to 1.35, and just like that bc2 was back to crashing to desktop, same overclock, auto voltage and all is well.

Strange :confused: