PC keeps Locking up

lomez · 8 Mar 2012 at 00:50

to be honest any os issues i have my first port of call is either a system restore or a full reinstall granted i use a secondary drive for all my data so i dont lose anything but thats how i troubleshoot.

kilohawk · 8 Mar 2012 at 03:25

A clean install it is then! my spare drive containing Ubuntu decided to Fail on boot

I think ill take care with partitioning the OS and data so i can do this easier next time

wazza300 · 8 Mar 2012 at 03:59

its not your os,its most likely your brand of ram or vccio voltage not enough/too much

i find the newer bios to be much more stable im using a non gen version of the board,leave vccio and dram voltage on auto and see what it uses

then if still freezing try one/two clicks more vccio voltage,no more than 1.2v,you will only need two/three clicks more at most

then try

btw im running corsair vengeance and no issues at all

kilohawk · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:43

wazza300 said:
its not your os,its most likely your brand of ram or vccio voltage not enough/too much

i find the newer bios to be much more stable im using a non gen version of the board,leave vccio and dram voltage on auto and see what it uses

then if still freezing try one/two clicks more vccio voltage,no more than 1.2v,you will only need two/three clicks more at most

then try

btw im running corsair vengeance and no issues at all

looking in the BIOS, the VCCIO voltage is moving between 1.04v and 1.06v
so what manual voltage should i raise it to? and is it 100% safe to do so?

Phage · 8 Mar 2012 at 14:35

I used to get a very similar crash in games like these.
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&outp....,cf.osb&fp=9d17c6f21579983d&biw=1005&bih=698
The consensus appears to be a driver problem with the Realtek chip, or soundcard.

wazza300 · 8 Mar 2012 at 15:11

kilohawk said:
looking in the BIOS, the VCCIO voltage is moving between 1.04v and 1.06v
so what manual voltage should i raise it to? and is it 100% safe to do so?

try with 1.10v and see if its any better,yes its safe to use upto 1.2v but you wont need that much,its for the integrated memory controller inside the cpu

kilohawk · 8 Mar 2012 at 15:43

wazza300 said:
try with 1.10v and see if its any better,yes its safe to use upto 1.2v but you wont need that much,its for the integrated memory controller inside the cpu

OK, thanks

I'm just installing Ubuntu, giving that a try, if Ubuntu doesn't work, then i will up the voltage and cross my fingers!

jakesnake · 8 Mar 2012 at 15:44

sorry to stray a bit from the thread but could sum1 post me the command so i can post a video on the forum?

wazza300 · 8 Mar 2012 at 16:04

if it doesnt work with win7 you might aswell throw the mb away,just cantsee it being os,more like ram/fault or bios setting not right ect,but try with ubuntu if you want

h@lf · 8 Mar 2012 at 16:08

have you check event log? is any warning error regarding system or hdd?

kilohawk · 8 Mar 2012 at 16:25

wazza300 said:
if it doesnt work with win7 you might aswell throw the mb away,just cantsee it being os,more like ram/fault or bios setting not right ect,but try with ubuntu if you want

Again, thanks for everyones help, much appreciated, id be stick otherwise

My reason for trying Ubuntu is to rule out any driver conflicts/virus/OS corruption and so on, if Ubuntu works perfectly, then that would indicate a problem with windows, in that case, i can do a clean instal and al should be well

BUT if it doesn't work, i can start experimenting with the hardware.
i did try a lower VICC voltage but it didn't get rid of the problem, and I'm overcautious when it comes to increasing voltages, but will do it if its guaranteed safe

h@lf said:
have you check event log? is any warning error regarding system or hdd?

ill check this as soon as Ubuntu has finished its thing.

kilohawk · 8 Mar 2012 at 20:33

h@lf said:
have you check event log? is any warning error regarding system or hdd?

There appears to be a very large number of errors regarding Bonjour!

kilohawk · 8 Mar 2012 at 20:55

wazza300 said:
try with 1.10v and see if its any better,yes its safe to use upto 1.2v but you wont need that much,its for the integrated memory controller inside the cpu

tried this, run p95 and the locking up still happens

uninstalled bonjour, still happens :confused:

jpod · 9 Mar 2012 at 01:16

kilohawk said:
There appears to be a very large number of errors regarding Bonjour!

Is that an app that is related to iphone? Have a google and check it was fully uninstalled it or turn it off. Perhaps this is crashing your system.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ur-error/fa9de0e7-fda5-4eb8-9ca5-d63fb5a38c07

I used this to read the data dumps WhoCrashed, so far it has helped identify two driver issues on two PC's, easy to use for rookies like me http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

kilohawk · 11 Mar 2012 at 18:10

Well, I finally killed whatever was causing this by doing a fresh install. no amount of fiddling with settings would help, so there was no voltage issues after all

but, ASUS ai suite is still VERY unstable, i looked into the resource monitor and it was taking the HDD up to 98mb/s :/