A Thread dedicated to issues with my PC

[Chicken Patty]

Sad but much needed. I am making a thread because I need advise from you guys.

Here is a list of issues I've had with my i7 rig lately.

1- Video card. Screen would go black and fan would spin up forcing me to reboot.
2- Once I replaced video card with an X300 I have, it stops issue #1 above, but now I have lost LAN and Audio, forcing me to restart to get it back only to loose it again.
3-with the x300 installed, I have now removed my sound card ( in the specs to the left) and all related creative apps/software/drivers. Seems like this is the longest i've had LAN. Of course no audio now, but the LAN connection is fine so far.

So what would you guys advise me to do.

What I have in mind is monitor a bit more, if all fine, try the 9800GX2 again and see if the sound card was causing the card to act up. If the 9800GX2 still acts up then the card is bad. Then it'll be a matter of getting my sound card to work with the rest of the components.

[Neuromancer]

1) I assume you have reinstalled windows to eliminate corruption issues?

2) How high did you take your PCIE bus?

[Chicken Patty]

1) I assume you have reinstalled windows to eliminate corruption issues?
issues kept happening, in fact got so bad with new install on different drive that it wouldn't even display correctly.

2) How high did you take your PCIE bus? 100, never overclocked it.

[Kal-EL]

list voltages.

pinch ioh vcore.

Flash bios.



Regarding the vid card, make sure that sucker has enough tim on it.

[Chicken Patty]

list voltages.

pinch ioh vcore.

Flash bios.



Regarding the vid card, make sure that sucker has enough tim on it.

well kal everything is at stock. The card does not overheat. I am running a x300 now and I cant pass intel burn test at defaults :scared:

[Kal-EL]

So list them voltages nutterz. Oh and tell us what you did to break it :taunt: so we can tell you to un-do it, j/k.

So this is out of the blue issues? How is you're bios acting, any squirly action? Anything we need to know about behavior prior to the start of issues?

[Ol'Bud]

Ok
The eldergeek is here and DO what I tell you to do ,
ALL of it.

Go to the device manager and uninstall all items giving you trouble.
if you do not have a driver un-installer go to piriform and get the lite version of CCleaner , English no Yahoo tool bar.

And keep that on your machine all the time.

Once that is installed re-boot and run the application by going to tools and find the drivers to uninstall.
Then reboot

If you do not already have your drivers copied from the support disk to a folder on your HDD,
Then do so before you start the process I gave you to do.

Then after removing all the drivers and uninstalling all the devices,
That's when you re-boot and get the devices recognized in the device manager by clicking the top of the list and telling the system to search for new hardware.
Sit and wait while it searches and don't get anxious about the time it may take.
If you interrupt the process you will have to start over.
Piriform - Products (http://www.piriform.com/products)

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

look down under other builds get the lite version only.
Post back

[Chicken Patty]

So list them voltages nutterz. Oh and tell us what you did to break it :taunt: so we can tell you to un-do it, j/k.

So this is out of the blue issues? How is you're bios acting, any squirly action? Anything we need to know about behavior prior to the start of issues?

Ok
The eldergeek is here and DO what I tell you to do ,
ALL of it.

Go to the device manager and uninstall all items giving you trouble.
if you do not have a driver un-installer go to piriform and get the lite version of CCleaner , English no Yahoo tool bar.

And keep that on your machine all the time.

Once that is installed re-boot and run the application by going to tools and find the drivers to uninstall.
Then reboot

If you do not already have your drivers copied from the support disk to a folder on your HDD,
Then do so before you start the process I gave you to do.

Then after removing all the drivers and uninstalling all the devices,
That's when you re-boot and get the devices recognized in the device manager by clicking the top of the list and telling the system to search for new hardware.
Sit and wait while it searches and don't get anxious about the time it may take.
If you interrupt the process you will have to start over.
Piriform - Products (http://www.piriform.com/products)

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

look down under other builds get the lite version only.
Post back


Thanks a lot for the info guys.

So far what I did is un install my soundcard and all Creative related software including drivers.

So far I have ruled out RAM/CPU. Memtest runs succesfully and I just passed 100 passes of Intel Burn Test. I just got me a multimeter so next up is to see what's up with the PSU. If that shows fine too I'll put the GX2 back in there and test that.

[Chicken Patty]

Well guys I have just tested the PSU at least off load. Everything is well within specs. tested the molex connectors, cpu 8 pin and the 24 pin. So I will uninstall all the ati drivers and give the 9800gx2 a go with no soundcard. Wish me luck! ______________

[Ol'Bud]

A corrupted graphics driver will screw-up your life.
Especially WHQL drivers.
You have to un-install them and do it over.

[Chicken Patty]

A corrupted graphics driver will screw-up your life.
Especially WHQL drivers.
You have to un-install them and do it over.

I have done that a few times and even with some older ones etc. That didn't help.

[Neuromancer]

I do not see how reinstalling Windows would not fix it if it was a driver issue.

You said that with the X300 it would not pass IBT, but then you said it passed 100 passes of IBT. What did you change?

When you reinstalled windows did you leave everything hooked up? Or had you pulled the vid/audio card popped in the X300 and reinstalled windows.

If you did the latter it shouldn't be a driver issue.


Safe mode is a "driver fail" test. alos windows has event viewer to show you stop errors, you could look at that and if it is a driver, it will be in there.

IT has no onboard audio chip, so would not be a conflict of a possible 3 audio devices on the PC. When you reset CMOS did you remember to disable onboard audio? You should not need to, but you do have a creative sound card and we know that is not a company that likes to place nice with its drivers/software.

Also what OS are you using? ore and more 7 bugs are being posted over at OCF. Might have a hardware comaptability issue (and yes they can just "suddenly appear")

[Chicken Patty]

I do not see how reinstalling Windows would not fix it if it was a driver issue.

You said that with the X300 it would not pass IBT, but then you said it passed 100 passes of IBT. What did you change?

When you reinstalled windows did you leave everything hooked up? Or had you pulled the vid/audio card popped in the X300 and reinstalled windows.

If you did the latter it shouldn't be a driver issue.


Safe mode is a "driver fail" test. alos windows has event viewer to show you stop errors, you could look at that and if it is a driver, it will be in there.

IT has no onboard audio chip, so would not be a conflict of a possible 3 audio devices on the PC. When you reset CMOS did you remember to disable onboard audio? You should not need to, but you do have a creative sound card and we know that is not a company that likes to place nice with its drivers/software.

Also what OS are you using? ore and more 7 bugs are being posted over at OCF. Might have a hardware comaptability issue (and yes they can just "suddenly appear")

I didn't change nothing, I ran Intel Burn test again and left the house. I had set it to 100 passes which is about 1.1 hours. I came back and it had a thing saying it had finished succesfully.




ok further update. GX2 is in, drivers installed Ran Furmark for about 7 minutes. Fan at 100% temps still reach by core 101/103ºc http://tpucdn.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif

So far CPU tests fine/RAM/PSU/video card.

So looks like it was the sound card causing trouble. If I continue to have issues without the sound card, then i say blame the mobo.

[Chicken Patty]

Rig has now been going 14 hours without a hiccup :toast:

http://img.techpowerup.org/091102/Capture163.jpg

[Neuromancer]

Sweet!

Now get an Auzentech sound card ;) (jk)

[Chicken Patty]

Sweet!

Now get an Auzentech sound card ;) (jk)
Now I finally get to try out the Mega Shadow :)