Hey, I built a PC for a friend about 2 months ago, however it's having some stability issues. Basically, every now and then it'll 'freeze' the image pauses, audio becomes a humm, and there's no response from keyboard and mouse. The only fix is a hard reboot. Some days it may happen 3 times, sometimes it'll be fine for 2 weeks. The spec is: i5 3570k Asus p8z77 motherboard 8GB corsair xms3 ram 128GB Samsung 830 3TB drive (I think its a Seagate or WD) EVGA GTX 660 OC Branded PSU 700w (can't remember brand, possibly ocz or sea sonic) I've ram prime95 for a couple of hours, MSI Kombuster for an hour, memtest 86+ overnight for 6 passes. Temps all seem to stay reasonable, and no errors are given (other than GPU showing 105% TDP, thou I imagine that's due to the stock over clock or boost?) Any ideas as to how I can troubleshoot it further? I intend on doing a rebuild with new SATA cables just incase one is damaged due to cable-routing. Thanks, James
Is the CPU overclocked? Have you made sure the ram timings in the bios are correct? And it would seem you need to check airflow to you GPU. Maybe downclock it? Faulty/badly seated cooler. Always good to check the sata cables :thumbup:
CPU is stock. Crazy thing is as well that I can't seem to make it crash Only odd thing it does, is the GPU seems to be putting the monitor to sleep after a minute or so, even thou power options have this disabled. The ram timings appear to be setup fine via the xmp profile as confirmed in CPU-Z. I'd have thought if it was the card, I'd have managed to at least cause artifacts in Kombuster... Thanks for suggestions - I'm going to rebuild before giving it him back (and down clock the gpu a tad) but kinda want to find the cause somehow... Any other stress tests you'd suggest?
It might be a GPU problem so make sure you have the latest drivers installed, or go the other way and roll back to the last one.
