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Hi,

Im having some trubble with my computer and it started with some blue screens that pointed at a nic networkcard. I tryed to uninstall the drivers and software with no luck so I thought Id do a well needed reinstall. After the reinstall I noticed my a audio play back at times was distorted , so I tryed my ati sound and onbored sound with no luck. I put the problem to one side as It only occurred with some sounds and continued to play games. A day had passed since Id done the reinstall and I started getting blue screens again but this time it was pointed at my ati driver, so I did a sweep and installed ccc 11.11 insted of the new ones. A day later Im getting the blue screens again and like befor when the blue screens started it happend every time I loaded a game. At this point I decided something wasnt right and unpluged everything from my pc and loaded my old install (from the disk drive not from ssd). Only the disk drive are pluged in at this point. I also unpluged any pci-e card and swoped my 6950 with a x200 just to be sure. Turned on the onbored ethernet and sound then loaded windows sorted the drivers out then restarted. Test both ram sticks on there own with very stable clocks and timing. Each test I played a sound that I know was distored for me befor and still had no luck.

At this point I cant think of any other testing and personly would say the problem lies ether in the motherboard or power supply.



specs
OS: win7 ultimate
Motherboard: Crosshair IV Formula
Ram: 2x2gb Corsair dominator gt CMG4GX3M2B1600C7 @7-7-7-20 1.68v 1600mhz
CPU: Phenom 980
Graphics: MSI F3 6950
Sound: sound blaster x-fi
Netowork: bigfoot 2100
 
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Try a fresh install of everything? I use to get problems with blue screens and crashing found out it was my overclock, but i kept getting them but less frequently so i re-installed windows and never saw the problem again.
 
Razargh said:
Try a fresh install of everything? I use to get problems with blue screens and crashing found out it was my overclock, but i kept getting them but less frequently so i re-installed windows and never saw the problem again.
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everything is running at stock, that why I bought the ram and cpu so I didnt have to oc it.

I think I forgot to say, Ive cleared cmos.
 
Im going to change the cpu. A friend might lend be his psu and ram.

If the problem remains would I be right in saying its the motherboard?
 
Stabhappy said:
Entirely possibly that the sound problem isn't related - stress test your GPU before you go spending money on stuff, IMO.
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The motherboard and CPU are like 3 months old so I dont plan on spending anymore than postage hopfully.


Ive got the backup cpu and psu back from a mate. Im about to start testing but everything is under warranty so its just a matter of working out whats the part at folt.

I just hope Im making the right decision by assuming the blue screens from the graphics and ethernet recurring corrupted drivers are related to the distorted sound and that its course by a diffrent problem than ethenet and graphics cards them self.
 
ok just tested with my old cpu and sound is still playing up.

So my raid array sometimes dont work or with error's. My pci-e sound card, network card and graphics card drivers keep corrupting acording to win7 reports and blue screen messages (Did not have one of these problems to begain with, only after the first blue screen and reports indicated nic network device/drivers).

The sound is distored when being played with onboard, ati hdmi/dvi or pci-e soundcard. I belive this Is a clue to my blue screen problem. Its not the cpu nor ram but I havent tryed an diffrent psu as the back one wasnt compatible.

So I belive it to be the mortherboard or psu. I need to be clear on what to do next. I will have to send them both back for testing? dose overclockers do the testing for manufacturer? what happens to the item that isnt at falt?


In the mean time Im going to play with this old graphics card and cpu. I'll fix the drivers and see if the blue screens start again. Low fps but at leat mw3 wont penalise me as much XD
 
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Ive decided to reinstall windows again but not in raid 0. Because of a BSOD that I keep getting and it seem to have started happening after I deleted my RAID 0 (secure erase on each drive). The BSOD code I belive is due to corrupt page file. Assuming a full wipe/reinstall of my ati driver replaces theres files or driver sweeper deletes them? as this can stop the BSOD for at least a day. I dont know if thats the case but as soon as I get one BSOD they dont stop untill I do the above.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: d1
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: 0000000000000002
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: FFFFF88002C3A768
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1


Unless there is anyother way to provent this Im going to get on with this tonight as soon as my internet isnt being slow.

any input is well appreciated. thanks
 
Okay, so to clarify, you've put your drives in "normal" mode (no RAID) and you installed Windows on one of them? But you still get BSOD? I assume windows was installed on the RAID?
 
beejjacobs said:
Okay, so to clarify, you've put your drives in "normal" mode (no RAID) and you installed Windows on one of them? But you still get BSOD? I assume windows was installed on the RAID?
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not yet, this is what I plan on doing. This time of day is very slow download speeds for me.

But I just had a thought and in the mean time I'll be running a single hdd (IDE) I used to use befor I bought my ssd's. I just need to sweep the ati drivers and make sure they are upto date. I never had a problem with this drive in the past. Infacet I might run this for a day or two to see if that blue screen starts again, that way on the off chance its not the raid I wont have to wipe the ssd's again.

Edit: No sorry if anything I hope it is the raid or els it could be my new 6950 :(
 
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Are you raiding SSDs? Generally little point in doing so as you lose some features (TRIM for example I believe) and they are so very fast already!
 
beejjacobs said:
Are you raiding SSDs? Generally little point in doing so as you lose some features (TRIM for example I believe) and they are so very fast already!
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yes. I know, the only reason why I did it was because of steam and the way it only lets me install games to one location :(. I didnt think at the time I would buy a second one.

Is it even worth useing achi on ssd's? or should I just leav it in IDE mode?
 
120 corsair force 3, sound like an idea. Might suggest in the steam forum a second install location. Not fully sure but I have a feeling if I fill one up too high it might not perfom as well. It might be my only option and your right its not worth complicating things.
 
At least 7 of my games are 10bg each or more, one or two of them almost 20bg each. Im glad my copy of gta iv isnt linked to steam not that ive played it in months.
 
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