Semi random shut downs.

Ollie1132

Ollie1132

Ollie1132

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Okay so I've had a quite a few random freezes video goes first then audio. Theres no correlation as to when it'll happen. I've stressed my GPU and CPU to their maximum both OC'ed and stock and no freezes occur. (currently running stock yet they still persist). The freezes only seem to happen within games as far as I can tell.

I can go for hours without an incident or maybe 10-15 minutes. Theres no BSOD and nothing significant is showing up in my event viewer. I've swapped out my motherboard which alleviated the issue for a small time.

I'm running watercooling with:

CPU: 2600k - stock
GPU: Gigabyte Windforce 3X GTX 670 - stock
RAM: 8GB of Corsair LP vengeance - stock timings/voltages
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V Pro (originally was a Asrock Z77 Extreme6)
PSU: Corsair AX750 gold

My system doesn't seem to overheat and the issue persists through stock settings. I've ruled out the motherboard as a culprit (via changing mobo) and I've ran memtest on my RAM. This leaves either the CPU or the GPU messing up. I'm not sure on any other steps to take to completely rule out either the CPU or GPU.

Cheers for any help.
 
Looking at the number of your posts you did this anyway but I have to ask, did you do a fresh install of windows after changing your mobo? When I had this issue it was the ram (a single stick). Do you get a burring sound then the screen goes blank? The only other thing I can think of would be some sort of driver conflict.
 
Raviolay said:
Looking at the number of your posts you did this anyway but I have to ask, did you do a fresh install of windows after changing your mobo? When I had this issue it was the ram (a single stick). Do you get a burring sound then the screen goes blank? The only other thing I can think of would be some sort of driver conflict.
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I do indeed get a burring type sound however the screen never goes blank just stays frozen. I swapped to a new ssd drive that was freshly installed windows. I've memtested my RAM (I should RMA my other set of 8gb since its most definitely dead) the kit I'm currently using passes a high percentage of memtest (I let it run for around 30-45 minutes)

wazza300 said:
What's the stock ram voltage?

Try dram voltage at 1.55v and vccio voltage at 1.06v,see if that helps
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And it was 1.5v. So Ill give that a shot wazza.
 
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try running memtest86 and see if any errors crop up

I have the v pro board and its very stable/reliable
 
Karateyid said:
Have you added removed hardware prior to these issues? When was the last gfx driver update??
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The issues started probably a month ago on my old motherboard. Swapped it out to my new one which stopped the issue for a while. Other than that nothing else is really new. The ssd I'm using as a boot device has been plugged in for quite some time and its the only real change. I'm running nvidias second latest gpu update currently (wiped drivers clean and installed the new ones.) The freezes aren't related insofar as I can tell to the motherboard/ssd. Like I said I tested full load gpu/cpu. But the freezes never occured during those tests only in games do they happen.
 
My own personal experience of crashes and freezes were due to the following:
The game not liking SLI.
The Killer Nic.
Faulty Ram.
My 580's getting Very hot.

(I know not very helpful but I want to get my number of post's to 90)
 
Raviolay said:
My own personal experience of crashes and freezes were due to the following:
The game not liking SLI.
The Killer Nic.
Faulty Ram.
My 580's getting Very hot.

(I know not very helpful but I want to get my number of post's to 90)
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Unfortunately for me no NIC single card RAMs passing memtest and my gpu stays happily between 50-70c. :c
 
Karateyid said:
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=9144.0

May find some help there. Noticed a few people had same board as u. Not read while forum post tho
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Had a quick skim over the posts. My mobo runs pcie2 (up to 16x) my old mobo ran pcie3. Currently my gpu is in an 8x slot. (can't move it to 16x due to how my loop currently is. But since the issues happened across two motherboards and two different pcie standards... Maybe that helps to identify the gpu as the culprit?
 
Ollie1132 said:
1 pass 0 errors. Seems alright to me?
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The general advice is to run a minimum of 8 passes. I've got a faulty stick going through RMA at present, I've had it fail after 2,8 and 12 passes of memtest but on one random occasion it managed 14 passes. The more passes the better, unfortunately it just takes an age to run.
 
Check to see what bios is on the gpu. Might be able to update that. Also check ur mobo bios. I know they did a gen 3 version of that board which oprned up pice 3
 
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zola25 said:
The general advice is to run a minimum of 8 passes. I've got a faulty stick going through RMA at present, I've had it fail after 2,8 and 12 passes of memtest but on one random occasion it managed 14 passes. The more passes the better, unfortunately it just takes an age to run.
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Ah okay. Ill leave it running over night then.
 
If you test one stick at a time, you should be able to get 8 passes in overnight. I appreciate this means it will take two nights to test both, but then you can still use the computer in the daytime at least :)
 
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