PC crash with buzzing sound

Kleiner023

Kleiner023

Kleiner023

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Ive had this problem for aslong as i can remember, built this pc coming up to 3 years now and this crash is now testing my resistance to being thrown out of the window.
Specs - most of my stuff has been bought from overclockers.
Gigabyte Z77-D3H
Intel core i5 3570k ivybridge (overclocked from overclockers to 4.4)
GTX 580
850w PSU
2x4gb Vulcan ram
1tb harddrive
The ram above is new as i found a couple of errors with my old ram from the last test of v6 memtest so replaced that and hoped it would solve it but no :(

What ive done.
Cleaned inside
Antivirus scans etc
Used Seagate to check harddrive
memtest then replaced ram
Updated bios/via audio driver via @BIOS and audio from the cd the motherboard came with
cried.
Kept an eye on temperatures but seems fine to me

What possible solutions im thinking of.
disabling some sort of audio in bios.


Crash usually occurs when playing games/downloading which is usually what i do anyway. The crash seems completely random i could play for days/weeks and it be fine then all of a sudden i crash 3 times in one night which isnt cool when its usually at the end of a setup/heist on gta 5 XD The buzzing sound doesnt always happen and i cannot do anything when it crashes apart from holding power button down.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and if you need to know any more info please ask

EDIT: also thinking a format may help because takes a while to shut down and load sometimes so maybe some windows bug or something 414gb/931gb on harddrive
EDIT x2: Format didnt help
EDIT x3: Still crashing with new graphics card (GTX 970)
 
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Hi,

Is the system still overclocked? as updating the BIOS would usually wipe that off.

To post an image just resize it to 1280x pixels wide or less and upload it to imageshack or photobucket etc, then you get a link (has IMG tags either side) to post.
 
Hey,
did the bios update yesterday so just checked it then and it just says 3.4 in bios although in top corner was picture of processor and it was going from 3.7mhz to 3.8 mhz so not sure what that means :O

https://imageshack.com/i/exS7yh0lp

If the link works then this printscreen was as follows played gta for hour and a half -> pc crashed -> then loaded gta then played for 15 mins then screenshotted
 
3.4 is the stock speed but these CPUs have Turboboost so will go a bit faster depending on how many cores are being used.

Do a fresh reinstall of the OS+drivers.

Are you using a SSD?
 
ok cheers, ive reinstalled the graphics drivers which ive forgotten to mention recently aswell. What other drivers would u suggest i look at? Can you reinstall the OS (win 7 64bit for me) without formatting?
and no i dont use a ssd
 
You need motherboard drives for the chipset (intel INF/ME etc) onboard audio drivers

Is your RAM setup right? running at XMP profile which will set the speed/timings and volts correctly.
 
You want all that apart from the SATA preinstall driver and the VGA driver (you can turn off the onboard gfx within the BIOS) as you are using a GFX card.

RAM, go into the advanced memory section, you will see a listing called XMP, load the profile and save+exit.

Download CPU-Z and show me the memory tab and SMP tabs.
 
kk thanks,
ill do that now, already got cpu z so ill do the xmp then send the photo of cpu z

is there a way to see what drivers i have at the moment to see what i need to uninstall because im not too sure what drivers i do and dont have on here (my pc brain is ok but not that good XD)
 
Not sure about the last bit, I think you can go to programs and features, click on uninstall and select windows+drivers or something so it shows everything that is installed.

Google it.
 
back now and theres isnt a smp tab in cpu z but there is a spd tab if thats what u mean?
and where can u disable onboard graphics? i saw "internal graphics" and "internal graphics memory size" if thats it?
 
Well its rated for 2133Mhz and that memory tab was right.

Do this, set XMP again and do a fresh install, stop messing around with it any more un-installing and reinstall drivers.

Other wise its just wasting time and effort.
 
ok ye was thinking that was gonna be the answer with fresh install, what does XMP do btw?
I didnt do any driver reinstalling today so that blue screen must have been caused by XMP being loaded
 
XMP reads the data stored on the RAM and lets the board set the frequency/timings and voltage correctly to what the RAM is tested to run at.

In your case 2133Mhz.

WIthout it enabled your RAM will just run at the stock JEDEC timings and you didnt pay money for 2133MHz RAM to run it at 1333Mhz did you?
 
The format hasnt worked ive just had my crash again so im thinking graphics card maybe?
are all graphics cards 3 year warranty if so what can i do to prove its the graphics card fault
 
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