Stability Problems with new build (first build)

[finnbot]

Hi there,

I recently took on my first ever build project last week. For this I ordered the overclocked bundle at 4.0Ghz which included

the Asus Rampage II Extreme Motherboard
i7 2.6Ghz @ 4.0 Ghz
6Gb of RAM
5970 Gfx card
Samsung Solid state drive
and a normal HDD

The system build went well enough with no problems and when i booted for the first time everything worked fine, the windows 7 install went well enough also.

Once i had the install complete i then inserted the Motherboard driver CD to be greeted with a message that the cd is not compatible with this OS. This caused me to panic a bit, but as everything seemed to be working okay i didnt think this would be a problem. I even went to asus support site and tried to download some drivers there myself but when i saw the list of stuff available for this board and for the windows 7 64 bit version it freaked me out. I have no idea which drivers out of the ones listed i would need. So again, as everything seemed to be working okay i left it.

Since then, the system has frozen quite a few times. I thought i had identified the problem as being Steam, but last night i left the PC on qhile downloading and woke up this morning to find it frozen. I also downloaded Prime95 to run a stress test and after a few seconds of testing the PC freezes every time.

ANy help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance


Finnbot

 

[finnbot]

Posted a thread in Customer Service section also. As to my BIOS settings, im ashamed to admit that i have not got a clue. Really new to this and thought that this pc build would maybe give me the opportunity to learn, instead it has just gave me a massive headache and made me feel totally like a newb ><

This is the driver page im at http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

the problem is that i dont know which BIOS updates etc i should install and whether if i update the BIOS will this affect my OC? Yes i really havent got a clue so please suffer my ignorance with grace

 

[finnbot]

Yeah thats what i thought regarding updating the BIOS, had an inkling that if i done that then it would reset my OC, which is why i didnt do it. No idea why im crashing still, i ran an OCCT test and the pc crashed after about 5 mins and the screen went red, although the report stated that the problem was a blue screen of death, i have since tested the GPU which ran fine so it does seem its a problem with the memory or the cpu. Going to run memtest now.

 

[finnbot]

Loaded up the default BIOS and things seem to be working fine. That says to me that it is a problem with the overclock. Ran stress tests all night without a system crash or it freezing whereas with the overclocked BIOS it would freeze after less than a minute stress testing.

Any ideas what steps i should take from here?

Thanks,

Finnbot