Prickly007
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After installing my new CPU-MB-RAM and then Win 8.1 Pro on Wednesday, I finished softwaring the next night and then went to play a game, Rise of the Tomb Raider. Alas, I encountered the same problem as before, crashes that shut down the computer followed by a reboot. However, the crashes now occur immediately upon loading the main menu or when starting a benchmark, i.e. Heaven (and Kombuster, as well). As I discovered this afternoon, the render test in GPU-Z runs fine. System passed a quick run of Intel Burn Test (x10 @ v. high), with max temp of 72. GPU temps are not the issue.
After researching the issue well into the night, some of the things I tried include:
Cleared CMOS (not that I changed much)
Updated BIOS to latest version
Ran Winupdate
Turned XMP off, thereby setting RAM to 2133MHz
Under-clocked GPU, -50 on both core and memory
Set power plan to performance
Messed around with TDR settings, mainly TdrDelay
Reseated GPU and change power cable
All to no avail. One thread suggested, in System Agent Menu, changing Primary display from auto to PCIe and setting PCIe slot to Gen2/3 from auto... It still crashed, but Heaven actually ran long enough to complete the first scene. Could a BIOS setting really be the cause? Might the problem be the most recent BIOS (1601), board came with 1402. So few people have the Hero Alpha, Goggle isn't much help.
Enough was enough, so this afternoon I re-installed Windows again. But only installed the Nvdia driver (v.362.00) and Heaven, and it still crashed right away. I am at a loss! A hardware issue seems the most likely, but what? PSU?* Bad Motherboard?
* I had crashes on my old Phenom II x4 system, but increasing Vcore seemed to (temporarily) stop them; plus they were far more random. Since last December or so, I had to increase Vcore and/or CPU-NB half a dozen or so times, hence the reason I upgraded.
After researching the issue well into the night, some of the things I tried include:
Cleared CMOS (not that I changed much)
Updated BIOS to latest version
Ran Winupdate
Turned XMP off, thereby setting RAM to 2133MHz
Under-clocked GPU, -50 on both core and memory
Set power plan to performance
Messed around with TDR settings, mainly TdrDelay
Reseated GPU and change power cable
All to no avail. One thread suggested, in System Agent Menu, changing Primary display from auto to PCIe and setting PCIe slot to Gen2/3 from auto... It still crashed, but Heaven actually ran long enough to complete the first scene. Could a BIOS setting really be the cause? Might the problem be the most recent BIOS (1601), board came with 1402. So few people have the Hero Alpha, Goggle isn't much help.
Enough was enough, so this afternoon I re-installed Windows again. But only installed the Nvdia driver (v.362.00) and Heaven, and it still crashed right away. I am at a loss! A hardware issue seems the most likely, but what? PSU?* Bad Motherboard?
* I had crashes on my old Phenom II x4 system, but increasing Vcore seemed to (temporarily) stop them; plus they were far more random. Since last December or so, I had to increase Vcore and/or CPU-NB half a dozen or so times, hence the reason I upgraded.
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