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The problem may just have been the mains. I live in a flat which may have bad wiring or a limit on how much I can use. Stopped using extension leads, swapped plugs around and so on. Although I did change the psu and motherboard, I don't think they were the problem.
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I used to use an older Asus p7p55de 1156 board, with an i5 then an i7 880, and a 700w psu. Used it with ati hd radeon 6950, then later a gtx 590. With Windows 7. Never had any issues with it.
Then I went and bought an Asus p8z77 v pro, with an i7 3770, and a gtx690, 1000 psu and again Windows 7.
Within one week of using this, it starts to slow down on post, then on boot. It never always did this, sometimes its just the odd day.
Then the problem of display not working after boot began. That problem was believed to be a driver issue. It was certainly not a hard drive issue, or an ssd one. Because the issue keeps coming back with either new hard drive or reinstall. And always took a week to do it again.
After a few weeks to months I got so fed of up this I took the board out and looked for any "bent pins" on anything. CPU, gpu, psu, ram, slots. everything was fine except for the cpu socket. There was one bent pin in the cpu socket. So I thought thats got to be the problem...
Nope.
After trying an asus maximus extreme V with the same i7 3770, 1000w psu, gtx 690, the same trouble began. And again it took a week to start doing it. The led related to vga stays lit.
On the other board I think the hdd led stayed lit, which originally made me think it was a hard drive issue.
The display turning off on boot was only avoided by earlier drivers. But now its also doing it straight on power up, no bios screen as well as the hanging issue for both post and boot screens.
Have tried various things mentioned on the internet. Less sata cables for less hard drives. Types of hard drives and ssds. Less use of other connections to usbs and things. Lower sata cables. Higher and lower psus. BIOS settings. Graphics card manual bios changes. Trying all pcie slots.
Note; when I tried the other slots and tried the top one again, it ran in x8 mode. And now remembering when running in safe mode, everything was slow. Then one time in normal boot, it was also slow and using the graphics card, not onboard graphics...Although safe mode and onboard graphics never ran so slow on the other board before.
Updates, rollbacks, everything.
The last straw was when I tried the older gtx 590 in this board. It does the exact same thing as the gtx 690.
When the boards weren't being a ctrlFU everything ran normally in Windows. Games, programs, everything was smooth. Just this damn issue keeps coming back.
So both these newer boards didn't like to always run my dual gpu cards, yet the older board did without ever hanging in any way or lock ups.
And I've read enough to see its not just dual gpu cards, but people have this similar issue with single card configurations.
So I need advice. I need to know why this happened, how to avoid it, what to buy and not buy. And just to note that I've sent back the motherboard already.
The problem may just have been the mains. I live in a flat which may have bad wiring or a limit on how much I can use. Stopped using extension leads, swapped plugs around and so on. Although I did change the psu and motherboard, I don't think they were the problem.
------Older post------
I used to use an older Asus p7p55de 1156 board, with an i5 then an i7 880, and a 700w psu. Used it with ati hd radeon 6950, then later a gtx 590. With Windows 7. Never had any issues with it.
Then I went and bought an Asus p8z77 v pro, with an i7 3770, and a gtx690, 1000 psu and again Windows 7.
Within one week of using this, it starts to slow down on post, then on boot. It never always did this, sometimes its just the odd day.
Then the problem of display not working after boot began. That problem was believed to be a driver issue. It was certainly not a hard drive issue, or an ssd one. Because the issue keeps coming back with either new hard drive or reinstall. And always took a week to do it again.
After a few weeks to months I got so fed of up this I took the board out and looked for any "bent pins" on anything. CPU, gpu, psu, ram, slots. everything was fine except for the cpu socket. There was one bent pin in the cpu socket. So I thought thats got to be the problem...
Nope.
After trying an asus maximus extreme V with the same i7 3770, 1000w psu, gtx 690, the same trouble began. And again it took a week to start doing it. The led related to vga stays lit.
On the other board I think the hdd led stayed lit, which originally made me think it was a hard drive issue.
The display turning off on boot was only avoided by earlier drivers. But now its also doing it straight on power up, no bios screen as well as the hanging issue for both post and boot screens.
Have tried various things mentioned on the internet. Less sata cables for less hard drives. Types of hard drives and ssds. Less use of other connections to usbs and things. Lower sata cables. Higher and lower psus. BIOS settings. Graphics card manual bios changes. Trying all pcie slots.
Note; when I tried the other slots and tried the top one again, it ran in x8 mode. And now remembering when running in safe mode, everything was slow. Then one time in normal boot, it was also slow and using the graphics card, not onboard graphics...Although safe mode and onboard graphics never ran so slow on the other board before.
Updates, rollbacks, everything.
The last straw was when I tried the older gtx 590 in this board. It does the exact same thing as the gtx 690.
When the boards weren't being a ctrlFU everything ran normally in Windows. Games, programs, everything was smooth. Just this damn issue keeps coming back.
So both these newer boards didn't like to always run my dual gpu cards, yet the older board did without ever hanging in any way or lock ups.
And I've read enough to see its not just dual gpu cards, but people have this similar issue with single card configurations.
So I need advice. I need to know why this happened, how to avoid it, what to buy and not buy. And just to note that I've sent back the motherboard already.
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