I built a new computer for my birthday right after christmas, and it has been freezing on me randomly ever since.
Specs:
I5-2500k
Asus P8Z68-VLX
8GB (2x4GB) Patriot DDR 133
120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB
1TB Hitachi HDD
Antec 620W power Supply
When the system freezes, the image stays on the screen, and the system stops responding completely. I can only turn the system off by holding down the power button. All lights on my USB devices go dark.
I have tried memtest, memtest86 overnight, OCCT on the CPU and GPU, and linx. All of the tests were passed with no errors, furthermore the system has never frozen while running any form of stress test, and the highest the CPU temp reached was 35 C.
I have also never had the system freeze while playing Skyrim, X3, or Dwarf fortress. The system has frozen while doing large file copies from my old machine, surfing the web, and sitting idle. I suspected some form of power saving mode because the freezes don't seem to happen when the system is doing the most work. I also believe that the power supply can't be the issue, normally I would test it anyway, but I don't have another power supply that I can replace it with for testing, so I haven't reached that test yet.
I have a coworker with an almost identical system build, but he has had no issues, so I don't think it is a "normal" issue that would be fixed with an update, but I can't seem to identify any piece of bad hardware.
I have tried:
My next steps are to flash the motherboard bios, and then buy a new power supply to test that. I don't know if Newegg will let me return a CPU just to try to test if the CPU is the problem, but it seems like a really crappy thing to do to them.
After those steps, I really don't know what I can do. The freeze produces no dump files, event logs, error messages, or anything else I can look up.
A lot of people report freezing issues with windows 7, but there are so many different forms of "freezing issue" that I find thousands of different fixes.
I don't know what else to do with this system. Has anyone seen something like this, or have any better ideas for how I can try to troubleshoot this?
Specs:
I5-2500k
Asus P8Z68-VLX
8GB (2x4GB) Patriot DDR 133
120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB
1TB Hitachi HDD
Antec 620W power Supply
When the system freezes, the image stays on the screen, and the system stops responding completely. I can only turn the system off by holding down the power button. All lights on my USB devices go dark.
I have tried memtest, memtest86 overnight, OCCT on the CPU and GPU, and linx. All of the tests were passed with no errors, furthermore the system has never frozen while running any form of stress test, and the highest the CPU temp reached was 35 C.
I have also never had the system freeze while playing Skyrim, X3, or Dwarf fortress. The system has frozen while doing large file copies from my old machine, surfing the web, and sitting idle. I suspected some form of power saving mode because the freezes don't seem to happen when the system is doing the most work. I also believe that the power supply can't be the issue, normally I would test it anyway, but I don't have another power supply that I can replace it with for testing, so I haven't reached that test yet.
I have a coworker with an almost identical system build, but he has had no issues, so I don't think it is a "normal" issue that would be fixed with an update, but I can't seem to identify any piece of bad hardware.
I have tried:
- removing one stick of ram at a time, it still froze with each one.
- switching the dimm slots the ram was in from 1A 1B, to 2A 2B (the manual recommends the second setting, but the system still freezes.
- Re-installing windows to the SSD
- Installing windows on the HDD and removing the SSD
- Replacing the motherboard (I forgot to order the motherboard from newegg, so it was the easiest piece to replace, and originally I suspected some form of problem with power saving)
- overclocking the CPU (I know its strange, but I suspect some form of power saving setting, which I hoped OCing might prevent)
- disabling all power saving settings in windows and the Asus configuration tool
- apply all windows updates
- I currently have the video card removed from the system as a test, but it will take a couple days without crashes to tell if I found a cause.
My next steps are to flash the motherboard bios, and then buy a new power supply to test that. I don't know if Newegg will let me return a CPU just to try to test if the CPU is the problem, but it seems like a really crappy thing to do to them.
After those steps, I really don't know what I can do. The freeze produces no dump files, event logs, error messages, or anything else I can look up.
A lot of people report freezing issues with windows 7, but there are so many different forms of "freezing issue" that I find thousands of different fixes.
I don't know what else to do with this system. Has anyone seen something like this, or have any better ideas for how I can try to troubleshoot this?