EasyTune 6 Killed my Computer!

[Bengel]

I recently put together a new computer (Specs below) and ran into a little problem. I put it together a few days ago and everything was running fine. Temperatures were cool, all my drivers were installed, bios updated... the works. I ran some Prime95 torture tests which ran fine for an extended period of time and stayed cool doing so.

Then I tried Gigabytes EasyTune 6! I played around with it to see how it worked. Everything was going fine... Then I saw the CIA section.

I clicked on the 'Turbo' button and that's all she wrote. The instant I did my cursor froze and the whole system was unresponsive. I tried everything and waited 5 minutes before hitting the reset button. Upon restarting, it loaded funny. The taskbar on Windows 7 was black, things were loading incorrectly and became unresponsive. Following that the cursor froze then bluescreen. Some issue with ATIMGR. Fine, something wrong with my display drivers. Started up in safemode... same thing. Started up... things became unresponsive and cursor froze. Bluescreen.

Shit D:. So I load the defaults in the BIOS. Same thing. I unplug everything and clear the CMOS! Same thing.

I attempted to reinstall Windows 7... it made it up to the part where you first see your cursor and it freezes. Shit! I figure the video card is having issues.. so I plug in a brand new (free with PSU!) Radeon 4350 HD. I made it through the Windows 7 x64 Ultimate install fine. Just for fun last night I ran Memtest86+ to make sure my ram was fine. 12hrs and 5 passes later everything is in the green there.

I went home for lunch today and turned it on. Everything loaded fine. The system ran for about 3 minutes then the same thing happened... It became unresponsive, cursor froze and crash. Sometimes a bluescreen, sometimes a black screen and sometimes a white screen.

I'm at a loss on what to do! Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

Specs:
Core i7 860
Gigabyte P55M-UD2 rev 1.1
XFX Radeon 5770
2x2gb OCZ Ripjaw DDR3 1600 Ram
OCZ Agility 60gb SSD
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
OCZ 600w modular psu

 

[pcgeek11]

I recently put together a new computer (Specs below) and ran into a little problem. I put it together a few days ago and everything was running fine. Temperatures were cool, all my drivers were installed, bios updated... the works. I ran some Prime95 torture tests which ran fine for an extended period of time and stayed cool doing so.

Then I tried Gigabytes EasyTune 6! I played around with it to see how it worked. Everything was going fine... Then I saw the CIA section.

I clicked on the 'Turbo' button and that's all she wrote. The instant I did my cursor froze and the whole system was unresponsive. I tried everything and waited 5 minutes before hitting the reset button. Upon restarting, it loaded funny. The taskbar on Windows 7 was black, things were loading incorrectly and became unresponsive. Following that the cursor froze then bluescreen. Some issue with ATIMGR. Fine, something wrong with my display drivers. Started up in safemode... same thing. Started up... things became unresponsive and cursor froze. Bluescreen.

Shit D:. So I load the defaults in the BIOS. Same thing. I unplug everything and clear the CMOS! Same thing.

I attempted to reinstall Windows 7... it made it up to the part where you first see your cursor and it freezes. Shit! I figure the video card is having issues.. so I plug in a brand new (free with PSU!) Radeon 4350 HD. I made it through the Windows 7 x64 Ultimate install fine. Just for fun last night I ran Memtest86+ to make sure my ram was fine. 12hrs and 5 passes later everything is in the green there.

I went home for lunch today and turned it on. Everything loaded fine. The system ran for about 3 minutes then the same thing happened... It became unresponsive, cursor froze and crash. Sometimes a bluescreen, sometimes a black screen and sometimes a white screen.

I'm at a loss on what to do! Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

Specs:
Core i7 860
Gigabyte P55M-UD2 rev 1.1
XFX Radeon 5770
2x2gb OCZ Ripjaw DDR3 1600 Ram
OCZ Agility 60gb SSD
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
OCZ 600w modular psu

I wish I had an answer for you, but this is why we all should avoid these applications like the plague.

Check the BIOS and see if the CPU setting are set to the defaults which is probably "AUTO" for freq etc ...

 

[Bengel]

I wish I had an answer for you, but this is why we all should avoid these applications like the plague.

Check the BIOS and see if the CPU setting are set to the defaults which is probably "AUTO" for freq etc ...

Yeah... thats what I get for playing around with gimmicky tools. I'm hoping that I improperly cleared the CMOS. I'll try removing the mobo battery this time around..

 

[Blazer]

never use any tools that are packaged with mobo's, stick with needed drivers and avoid the extra applications, rerun the bios setup and repair the installation or just reload to make sure all the crap is gone for good.

 

[Bengel]

Yeah... sometimes you have to learn the hard way

I've been playing with this thing since I've been home from work. I was able to pull the memory dump files which said basically what I figured. I get the nice "THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER" error every time.

I've been swapping between my spare ATI 4350 and my ATI 5770 to try to determine if the video card is toast. Both of them crashed in the main PCIE x16 slot every single time within 3 minutes of booting. However, I moved the 4350 down to the secondary (but much slower PCIE 1.0 x16 running at 4x) and it's been running fine *so far*. Right now I'm doing another clean install of Windows 7 and seeing if it will stay solid. I'll keep this updated to try to help anyone who was dumb as I was and used the software.

 

[Bengel]

Well it seems the problem turned out to be the top PCIE x16 slot. After removing the video card from the top one and placing it in the bottom slot, I haven't had a single bluescreen or crash yet. To test the theory, I popped the card back into the top slot and sure enough the system crashed within a minute of booting.

Time for a new motherboard...