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My PC has started randomly freezing:cry:, no blue screen it just freezes. CTRL+ALT+DEL does nothing... It's done it after 3 hours of BF3, its done it at the windows login screen, some days it doesn't happen, others I can't use my PC for longer than a minute. This started last week.
I dropped my OC on my GPU, CPU and RAM, keeping the voltages the same.
Did a memtest, never picked up any errors though... hope I used it right, I ran 4 instances each testing 2047mb for about 2 hours. No errors.

My PC is dust free and all my temps are low.

My USB ports stopped charging devices a while ago... like my iPhone will say "this device does not support charging" but won't give me that message if I stick it in the wall plug adaptor. USB powered Hardrives don't work either. Is this a symptom or just something else wrong with my PC?
 
Sounds like bad mobo, esp if you have dropped to stock clocks and it still happens. One of the other components could have degraded, but at 4GHz I dont think you'll have run a voltage high enough to cause permanent damage, at least not the CPU.
Only one way to test it all though - spare PC swap out marathon... :/
 
Reset your bios and run everything stock.

Then you need to get a good benchmark program that hurts your entire system like pcmark or something similar.
 
doobyscoo said:
My PC has started randomly freezing:cry:, no blue screen it just freezes. CTRL+ALT+DEL does nothing... It's done it after 3 hours of BF3, its done it at the windows login screen, some days it doesn't happen, others I can't use my PC for longer than a minute. This started last week.
I dropped my OC on my GPU, CPU and RAM, keeping the voltages the same.
Did a memtest, never picked up any errors though... hope I used it right, I ran 4 instances each testing 2047mb for about 2 hours. No errors.

My PC is dust free and all my temps are low.

My USB ports stopped charging devices a while ago... like my iPhone will say "this device does not support charging" but won't give me that message if I stick it in the wall plug adaptor. USB powered Hardrives don't work either. Is this a symptom or just something else wrong with my PC?
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I had the same prob back in the day.My random freezes was caused from my gfx not getting enough apms on the rails but my usb worked fine.That should not effect your usb ports in anyway I will say it might be your motherboard thats faulty.Either that or a software problem like drivers did you try the latest update in motherboard drivers maybe a bios update?

What is your system specs?It will help all the IT guys on mybb troubleshoot the issue.
 
No spare PC unfortunatlely
My chip needed quite a bit of voltage to hit 4GHz, was about 1.33V... will try put everything to stock levels and see what happens when I benchmark... will use IBT and furmark as I have them already, should I run them same time?
 
Well first run them individually to try isolate the cause. Then run them concurrently

Oh, if everything checks out, then its either mobo or PSU
 
Archer said:
Well first run them individually to try isolate the cause. Then run them concurrently

Oh, if everything checks out, then its either mobo or PSU
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Ok will try these things when I get home. I hope I don't have to replace/upgrade my mobo and CPU (secrectly I do)
 
Ok it cruised through IBT and furmark... But then I remembered that my card is throttled during furmark so I tried 3D mark 11 and it crashed on the 1st or 2nd scene in about 10 runs... So will try organize another pc to test my gpu in to confirm. Dammit, the one part I didn't want to upgrade.
 
Oh right, the 580 does protect itself in furmark. Well that sucks :/ let us know if it is that...
 
1st thought is PSU not supplying enough power, but you got a AX750 so I doubt that is the case unless you are unlucky and the unit is now failing.
2nd thought is MB, check for in popped caps etc.
3rd GPU


My CPU is also around 1.33v for 4GHz and it's going fine.

So it's hard to tell in your case without swapping out components..
 
It's not my CPU, I can encode video and run IBT and pretty much use my PC as normal now, but 5 minutes into BF3 I crash, even at the lowest setting.
Called one the local computer shops going to take it to them this afternoon. He reckons its faulty power coming out the socket, so they are going to test it on their UPS and see if that helps, I want them to put my 580 in one of their PC's and see if it makes a run of 3dmark11...

What I found is that it will fail the 3dmark11 run at exactly the same point every time, if I bump voltage up it will fail a little later, but at the same point on a few runs...
 
doobyscoo said:
It's not my CPU, I can encode video and run IBT and pretty much use my PC as normal now, but 5 minutes into BF3 I crash, even at the lowest setting.
Called one the local computer shops going to take it to them this afternoon. He reckons its faulty power coming out the socket, so they are going to test it on their UPS and see if that helps, I want them to put my 580 in one of their PC's and see if it makes a run of 3dmark11...

What I found is that it will fail the 3dmark11 run at exactly the same point every time, if I bump voltage up it will fail a little later, but at the same point on a few runs...
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That is really odd,you 100% sure it's not overheating?what temps does it reach while running 3dmark 2011?
otherwise I would ask the ppl at the computer shop to test it with another psu let it run 3dmark 2011 again with one of there psu's.And yea testing the gfx in another pc is a good idea.I doubt testing it on a ups will help.But then again it can't hurt.

After testing the system with another psu and the gfx card in another system. If both compoments work and the problem stil presists I will say it's mobo.Is the AX750W single rail or multi rail if multi what you could try is to connect the gfx to another rail.
 
Pe-Killer said:
That is really odd,you 100% sure it's not overheating?what temps does it reach while running 3dmark 2011?
otherwise I would ask the ppl at the computer shop to test it with another psu let it run 3dmark 2011 again with one of there psu's.And yea testing the gfx in another pc is a good idea.I doubt testing it on a ups will help.But then again it can't hurt.

After testing the system with another psu and the gfx card in another system. If both compoments work and the problem stil presists I will say it's mobo.Is the AX750W single rail or multi rail if multi what you could try is to connect the gfx to another rail.
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AX750 is single rail. I've been running 3dmark full screen so I haven't been monitoring temps, will give it a run before I take it to the PC shop.
 
Ok thought I'd run 3Dmark11 quick before I dropped it off at the PC shop and it made it through (P5924) so there may be some merit to their poor power supply theory... will see if it freezes again over the weekend.

Temps only went up to 59 C
 
Pc shop guy says it's my registry, I did run ccleaner a while ago in an attempt to remove a random dll error that kept popping up at startup... Made a backup though so I used it and now it all seems fine...

Guess when you overclock your components and something goes wrong you automatically think its a hardware failure...

So flippin stoked, thanks for the help guys.

Time to crank up all the overclocks again and carry on as normal
 
Yea and get your porn from a decent place so you don't land up with dll errors :p

Don't click the freeporn.exe again :p
 
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