Hi guys. Been having some random crashing issues lately, was hoping you could help me narrow it down. Basically what's happening is when I am playing a game (doesn't matter which one) I will sometimes come to a near freeze situation where the action actually does freeze but the sound goes into some kind of slo-motion reverb and just makes blaring noise until I hard reset my computer. For example, in Batman the game froze, but the audio of some thugs having a conversation continued to play, just really slowly, and heavily distorted. This happened once in Skyrim and while attempting to pull out my phone to take a video, it actually unfroze and went back to normal. Any idea what this could be?
Sounds like an unstable overclock, but looking at your sig if you spend that much money on a system you've probably stress tested it already, wouldn't hurt to take another look I guess.
I had a stable overclock for several months at 4.2GHZ and I recently dropped my 670 down to default settings because it wasn't really doing me any good in terms of real-world performance. A couple of weeks ago I dropped my OC to 4ghz and lowered my voltage. Now that I think of it, it's possible that I don't have enough voltage pumping. Was running it at 1.150v. I'll try to bump it up a bit and see what happens.
OK so a few things are starting to make me wonder if my motherboard is biting it. I went into UEFI and set everything to default factory settings. The computer failed to load Windows. It crashed on the Windows 7 logo animation. This was with no OC, no over-volt, nothing. I increased the CPU voltage and lo-and-behold, it started working. I've gone back and set my previous stable overclock which is 4.2 Ghz, 1.165v, 1.9 PLL, LLC set to 3. Memory is stock voltage and frequency @1600. My PCI-E wireless internet adapter is randomly failing. My connection will die and Windows will stop recognizing I have a card installed. This occasionally occurs with my graphics card as well. The screen will go dark, then pop back with a message saying my graphics card driver stopped responding and has since recovered. The internet card never recovers, btw. The only way to get it back is a restart. I'm starting to wonder if my motherboard is frying out. I'd run it on stock settings to see if the OC has any effect, but it crashes at stock. I guess I can keep trying until it works. Any ideas? EDIT: I solved the boot crash at default settings. Turns out my motherboard defaults to IDE mode for the primary hard drive when you set defaults. I put it back on AHCI and it boots fine now. I guess I'll run it at bone stock for a while and see if I still have any issues.
