Realityshift
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Ok so I need some ideas guys. The system in my sig has show itself to be extremely stable, from 9+ hours on all the tests on prime95 and orthos, as well as 4 OCCT 1 hour tests. Its been flawless EXCEPT.. When I restart the pc I get random BSODs or lock ups when loading into windows. I dont get any sort of codes from the BSODs =( it just locks up. the weird thing is it only does it once in a while, it might do it 3 times in a row then all of a sudden just work, so I was kind of attributing it to some sort of heating issue.
My MCP seems to run very hot, and i really should pull the mobo out and reseat the chipset cooling, but im waiting on the IC7 before I do that. besides that 72c still shouldnt give me these kind of issues as at start up with SLI enabled its only at 56-61c which is a tad high but not extreme. I have my video cards in slot 1 and slot 2 which is top and bottom with slot 3 inbetween the 2. I have the SLI bridge connected to the ports closer to the fan side of the cards (farthest from the back ports of the cards). CPU heat hasnt been any sort of issue, it never gets over 53c under OCCT stressing. Ive checked for shorts, cables not connected fully and everything checks out. I know the HSF backplate isnt shorting out the capacitors on the back of the CPU socket, I checked that carefully before the motherboard even went into the PC.
The ram is 4x1 sticks which might mess this up but their running at .1 volt over stock but at stock timings and the ram finishes memtest and all other testing just fine. Im not understanding the BSODs at low load on the system. maybe a USB device is loading up on a faulty usb?
So, is this an RMA issue? anyone having any better testing I could use on this system? any ideas? This did just start happening when I enabled SLI from what I can remember it was rock solid before this. Everything ive read about SLIing 2 different 9800GTX models says that the way I have it set up is right but maybe I got it wrong.
My MCP seems to run very hot, and i really should pull the mobo out and reseat the chipset cooling, but im waiting on the IC7 before I do that. besides that 72c still shouldnt give me these kind of issues as at start up with SLI enabled its only at 56-61c which is a tad high but not extreme. I have my video cards in slot 1 and slot 2 which is top and bottom with slot 3 inbetween the 2. I have the SLI bridge connected to the ports closer to the fan side of the cards (farthest from the back ports of the cards). CPU heat hasnt been any sort of issue, it never gets over 53c under OCCT stressing. Ive checked for shorts, cables not connected fully and everything checks out. I know the HSF backplate isnt shorting out the capacitors on the back of the CPU socket, I checked that carefully before the motherboard even went into the PC.
The ram is 4x1 sticks which might mess this up but their running at .1 volt over stock but at stock timings and the ram finishes memtest and all other testing just fine. Im not understanding the BSODs at low load on the system. maybe a USB device is loading up on a faulty usb?
So, is this an RMA issue? anyone having any better testing I could use on this system? any ideas? This did just start happening when I enabled SLI from what I can remember it was rock solid before this. Everything ive read about SLIing 2 different 9800GTX models says that the way I have it set up is right but maybe I got it wrong.