Sudden X64 Crash: PC Has Started Crashing At Apparently Random Intervals
Sep 5, 2008
My Homebuilt dual core PC has started crashing at apparently random intervals. The behaviour is this; sudden black screen, PC hard drives and fans still running, a 3-4 second interval, PC powers down, auto restart of PC, boots to 'SAFE mode' options boot screen, then reboots entirely normally when 'start my computer normally' is selected. I have scoured the error log and have found several unusual entries. I am at a major loss as to their relevance.
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Oct 17, 2008
Intel Q9400 Quad Core
EVGA 750i SLI Motherboard
2x XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog Videocards
8g OCZ Platinum Edition RAM
1 WD Velociraptor 300g drive (main)
1 WD Green 1 TB drive (storage)
Alpine Cooling Pro Freezer 7 (cpu heatsink)
Vista Home Premium 64 bit
The install of Vista has been nothing short of a nightmare..the OS keeps locking up at random intervals and reducing me to tears. I can't even seem to get the drivers installed without issues. I have tried to do most from safe mode to no avail. The next step was to remove all but 2 g of RAM and one of the video cards but things are still locking up for no apparant reason. Sometimes the install hung on "expanding Files" sometimes it would make it through that only to hang at the splash screen or once the os had booted up. We ten tested all the RAM with a ram test and everything was fine. Im at my wit's end here as I have pulled everything out to make it as bare bones as possible.
One thought from a friend was that the raid drivers may be causing an issue as this has been known to happen on intel mobos. Although I thought I had the Raid driver off anyway as Im not doing an array....yet.
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Anyway, I was running Vista32 for about 6 months with no real problems. I changed to Vista64 last night so that I could start using my current 4GB of RAM and be ready for more later on. When I tried to install the files would copy to the HDD just fine, but when the PC would reboot for the first time it would crash at the "green motion bar" loading screen and restart... over... and over. I removed my extra hardware and went down to 2GB of RAM in dual channel mode and reduced timings from 4-4-4-12 to 5-5-5-18 and was able to install. I then got all updates and hadded my hardware back... no problems. I then added my other 2GB of RAM back... no problems. I then increased my timings back to the correct 4-4-4-12... no problems, or so I thought. I'm currently getting random crashes when loading Vista... same as before it will get to the "green motion bar" loading screen and either reboot or give a BSOD and force a restart. I've turned my timings down to 5-5-5-12 and it still happens... so I put them back to 4-4-4-12. I've heard that Vista x64 might have problems with 4GB of RAM on certain systems but I'm not sure how true this is. I guess I'm wondering if anyone else has heard of this and if there's any known fix for this? Maybe a beta update from MS or something? Also... once I get past this "glitch" and Vista loads... it runs rock solid with no issues. All my drivers are the latest available and signed as required. ((downloaded them all last night))
Here's my system, remember... I ran Vista32 for months without a problem on the same system.
Asus P5N32-E SLI (latest BIOS 1205)
nVidia 7900GS (not using SLI)
Corsair 4-4-4-12 DDR2 RAM *SLI Ready* (4 matched sticks of 1GB each)
Antec TruePower 650 PSU PCI-E & SLI Ready
C = 320GB SATA2 Seagate
D = 400GB SATA2 Seagate
E = 400GB SATA2 Seagate
F = 500GB SATA2 Maxtor
G = 500GB SATA2 Maxtor
H = Lite-On SATA 20x SuperMulti Burner
J = 400GB IDE Seagate (will be removed, being used for data transfer from 32bit Vista for now)I'm tempted to go back to 32bit just because of the startup crash... but then I can't access my full 4GB of RAM.... goods and bads no matter what I do.
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OS: bought from newegg. win vista 64 bit problem: I assembled the system no problem and began with installing the OS. Once vista was installed I started loading the Mobo drivers for audio and lan. That all went fine but soon after all my apps and programs started randomly crashing...constantly, and couldnt keep up the system very long w/o a bsod. So I installed my graphics drivers and couldn't get through that with out a crash. Tons of software/OS crashes later I decide to reinstall vista. Same experience 2nd time so I was about fed up with vista and decided to try windows XP. Format HDD and as soon as I got to the windows loading page it bsod's... i've tried 3 times and same result. My main issue is I just want to run vista, so I don't care too much about running XP.
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