Hello,
Over the last week I have built my new Media Centre PC. Unfortunately, whilst the system was completely stable when first put together it seems to have gradually become more unstable.
The system consists of:
Intel 3570k with Gelid Tranquilo cooler
Gigabyte Z77-D3H
8GB (2x4GB) Kingston HyperX Grey
HIS AMD 7850 2GB AMD Catalyst 12.4 drivers
Crucial 128GB SSD
2 x 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD (The ones recently at a low price on OEM)
1 x 2TB WD HDD
1 x 1TB Seagate HDD
CoolerMaster Silent Pro 600W PSU
Fractal Design R3 Black Pearl case
Win 7 64Bit Home Premium
The computer was initially built last thursday minus the 7850. It seemed to run fine initially and took over fully from my laptop on saturday being left on 24/7. However, monday when I came back from work I found the computer was turned off, checked to make sure no-one had touched it which they hadn't, it loaded up fine and Event Viewer showed a message saying the system has started from an unexpected shut down. However, couldn't replicate it so assumed it was a 'glitch'.
Tuesday the system randomly froze on the desktop not doing anything intensive at all and then yesterday after installing the 7850 I have had another lockup whilst watching a movie in XBMC a few hours later, it froze and the sound was just in a loop.
I had my 20" monitor plugged into the onboard VGA slot with an HDMI cable to my receiver to display on my TV. These have now been switched to the 7850 although with a VGA>DVI converter for the monitor cable (DVI socket doesn't work on monitor!) and still with the HDMI to my receiver.
I honestly am not sure what the problem is. Originally I thought it was the RAM as the incorrect settings had loaded in the BIOS but I have sinced changed them to the rated settings and the lockup in XBMC still occured since then. I left Prime95 running all night on a toture test and woke up today with the computer still up and runnning fine, does this mean I can exclude the CPU/RAM from possible causes?
As I am using a dual monitor/TV display I have Windows set as an extended desktop on the TV with XBMC just opening up on that. The only other thing I could say is that I left Prime last night with just the monitor attached if that would make any difference whatsoever.
This was my first build in 6 years so am really not sure how to find the cause as I simply can't replicate it. Temps on the CPU max out about 60c when running Prime. Catalyst shows the GFX idling about 30x rising to 40c when I ran 3DMark yesterday. I have done no overclocking whatsoever as of yet. Speedfan also shows all the mechanincal hard drives running at about 30c although this is with the side of the case open (and it did lock up once with the side off).
Can anyone point me in the right direction, as I can't replicate I am really not sure how to go about this.
Any help appreciated.
Over the last week I have built my new Media Centre PC. Unfortunately, whilst the system was completely stable when first put together it seems to have gradually become more unstable.
The system consists of:
Intel 3570k with Gelid Tranquilo cooler
Gigabyte Z77-D3H
8GB (2x4GB) Kingston HyperX Grey
HIS AMD 7850 2GB AMD Catalyst 12.4 drivers
Crucial 128GB SSD
2 x 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD (The ones recently at a low price on OEM)
1 x 2TB WD HDD
1 x 1TB Seagate HDD
CoolerMaster Silent Pro 600W PSU
Fractal Design R3 Black Pearl case
Win 7 64Bit Home Premium
The computer was initially built last thursday minus the 7850. It seemed to run fine initially and took over fully from my laptop on saturday being left on 24/7. However, monday when I came back from work I found the computer was turned off, checked to make sure no-one had touched it which they hadn't, it loaded up fine and Event Viewer showed a message saying the system has started from an unexpected shut down. However, couldn't replicate it so assumed it was a 'glitch'.
Tuesday the system randomly froze on the desktop not doing anything intensive at all and then yesterday after installing the 7850 I have had another lockup whilst watching a movie in XBMC a few hours later, it froze and the sound was just in a loop.
I had my 20" monitor plugged into the onboard VGA slot with an HDMI cable to my receiver to display on my TV. These have now been switched to the 7850 although with a VGA>DVI converter for the monitor cable (DVI socket doesn't work on monitor!) and still with the HDMI to my receiver.
I honestly am not sure what the problem is. Originally I thought it was the RAM as the incorrect settings had loaded in the BIOS but I have sinced changed them to the rated settings and the lockup in XBMC still occured since then. I left Prime95 running all night on a toture test and woke up today with the computer still up and runnning fine, does this mean I can exclude the CPU/RAM from possible causes?
As I am using a dual monitor/TV display I have Windows set as an extended desktop on the TV with XBMC just opening up on that. The only other thing I could say is that I left Prime last night with just the monitor attached if that would make any difference whatsoever.
This was my first build in 6 years so am really not sure how to find the cause as I simply can't replicate it. Temps on the CPU max out about 60c when running Prime. Catalyst shows the GFX idling about 30x rising to 40c when I ran 3DMark yesterday. I have done no overclocking whatsoever as of yet. Speedfan also shows all the mechanincal hard drives running at about 30c although this is with the side of the case open (and it did lock up once with the side off).
Can anyone point me in the right direction, as I can't replicate I am really not sure how to go about this.
Any help appreciated.
