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Bayk

Bayk

Bayk

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Hello,

so since i built my computer everyday if not once the whole system will freeze and ill be forced to do a hard restart, ive tested my memory, graphics etc and its really got me stumped here are my system specs below.

I5 2500K @ Default speeds
GTX 570 Gigabyte factory OC
Asus P8P67-M PRO
Silverstrone strider+ 850w modular psu
Samsung Spinpoint F4 320GB hdd
Corsair XSM3 4GB ram

thanks for reading.
 
Ws this a fresh install of the operating system?

What programs did you use for testing the memory ect.

I tend to use mem test for memory which runs external to the operating system on a bootable disc.
 
ive used memtest to test my ram it found no errors after several hours

and yes i did a clean install of my OS earlier last week as i thought that was the problem
 
Hmm, bit of a pain.

Have you tested the hard drive for any errors and tested for performance.

Just trying to think of any other ideas what it be.
 
okay ran the error scan took 50minutes but it didnt report any damaged parts of the HDD
the health tab also says the hdd is OK

im pretty stuck on what to do now
 
If it were me I would troubleshoot in this order, memory - How many sticks are you running and is the voltage correct? have you bumped up the voltge slightly over stock and run a stick at a time?

Graphics card - Factory OC cards are known for stability problems, wind back the factory OC to standard clocks and see how it performs.

Are your cpu voltages spot on? bump the voltage slightly as some boards have a bit of vdroop. Don't know if this is an issue on current intel hardware but do know that my voltages are low compared to bois on my AMD X6 platform.

Windows - Does the issue happen when screensaver, system S3 or other power management occurs. For this I turn off screensavers and set my system to never sleep or hibernate.

System temps - How are your temps under load?

However I am going to point my finger at this: Corsair XSM3 4GB Ram - I have 8 gb of this in my system and im not impressed, so far I have one stick of the 4 which has become faulty and causes my system to hard lock and not boot.
 
temps are fine,

CPU currently under full load is only at 30 degrees, Mobo is at 26 and my graphics is at 57

ive got sleep disabled and i dont have screensavers on so that wont be the problem, going to turn do my OC on the graphics now, and ill go check the voltages on my CPU and RAM
 
I had faulty ram in a new build that passed a few times in memtest, only on the 4th multiple hour test finally showing the errors I suspected were there all along, new ram has been 100% stable.

So it might be worth running memtest a couple more times too.


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Wolfe777 said:
I had faulty ram in a new build that passed a few times in memtest, only on the 4th multiple hour test finally showing the errors I suspected were there all along, new ram has been 100% stable.

So it might be worth running memtest a couple more times too.


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Agree I would just take out a stick and run on one.... if its stable then change to the other, if its still stable then run both and bump the voltage to see how it works. after that its time to start swapping out components.

Ive told this story a million times on here but it serves its purpose well.

Back in the day when the ati 9700 pro was released I was running an ASUS board, I think it was a K7V333R (from memory) and it was running a VIA KT333 chipset and an overclocked barton. I bought the 9700pro on release day and for 6 months solid I was fighting for stability, I had the best card on the market and I couldnt make it work for more than about 30 minutes. Anyway In the end I gave up and started swapping out components. With my old card (a gf3 i think) everything was cool and it worked a treat.

Anyway after searching for a while I noticed one common thing which popped up in every place somebody was having problems and that was the VIA chipset. Evenually I saved enough cash for a new board, a DFI one, put it all together and away it went no problem.

The fact of the matter is sometimes things just wont work together so the only way is to swap stuff out until it works.
 
ok checked the voltages on ram there 1.5v checked the timings its 9 9 9 24
my cpu voltage is at 1.165 whats the recomended voltage for an I5 2500K?
 
A quick look around suggests that you need to keep it under 1.4v for 24/7 running. It also shows people getting 4.5ghz overclocks on 1.28 vcore so I don't think that is your answer.
 
You do have your ram at the wrong voltage though, I am sure they a 1.65... one sec i go get the box.

Here we go my broken ram:

 
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id link to another well known retailer but sadly not allowed to onthese forums theres two diffrent types of the corsair XMS3 1.5v and theres a 1.65v version

CMX4GX3M2B is the serial on mine just google it should get the 1.5v one
 
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Ahh thats right I remember all the memory threads when the I5 came out people having problems with which memory to order.
 
well going to run memtest tonight and see what the results are in the morning a good 10hours or so should show up something
 
ran memtest for for 8 hours or so no errors.. so i decided to open up my case and take the ram out little behold it says 1.65v on the side of the stick.. -_- so ive changed it to 1.65v manually via the bios hopefuly that was the problem but we'll see soon enough i guess
 
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