2016/09/11 08:32:03
Zuhl3156
CrunCherTiMe
Update: I removed one ram stick, and it crashed(although it seemed to have lasted longer than usual, could just be a placebo thing). But I then took out the other ram stick and put the first one I took out back in, and so far I haven't had any crashes in over 8~ hours. I'm going to test it a bit more just to make sure though. And if it works fine I guess the one stick of ram is bad.


Good find and a lucky break if you have a defective RAM module or modules. Best thing to do now is to run MemTest86+ to test the remaining RAM sticks: http://www.memtest.org/
 
Test one stick at a time usually for at least two or three passes then move onto the next stick. It can take a while but just be patient. Once a stick gets an error, take it out and mark it 'defective' so you don't put it back in. LOL  Yes, I've done that before!
2016/09/11 17:13:33
XrayMan
 
Testing 1 stick of Ram at a time is the best way to trouble shoot that.
2016/10/29 16:35:59
CrunCherTiMe
Haven't been able to do much testing until recently.
 
So I took my GPU and RAM and put them in my brother's computer. I ran two twitch TV streams, played overwatch, and had WoW open. It didn't crash over multiple hours. I just got back home today and I put everything back in, and I opened WoW and had a youtube video on (a minute?) and my monitor went black for 2-3 seconds, it came back, had HDMI in the top left. I tab out, and the battle.net program was 'broken'. When I clicked it it pulls up and is just a blue outline rather than having all sorts of info on the screen. At this point I have no idea what to do. Power, drivers(I did clean installs that people on forums and CS told me to, including their tactics), something wrong with my entire motherboard? If I just play WoW with no video stream going on, it tends to be fine, probably 90% of the time.
 
EDIT: It also seems that his computer runs faster than mine, even though I have a stronger CPU, mobo, and an SSD.
2016/10/29 18:16:58
Sajin
CrunCherTiMe
Haven't been able to do much testing until recently.
 
So I took my GPU and RAM and put them in my brother's computer. I ran two twitch TV streams, played overwatch, and had WoW open. It didn't crash over multiple hours. I just got back home today and I put everything back in, and I opened WoW and had a youtube video on (a minute?) and my monitor went black for 2-3 seconds, it came back, had HDMI in the top left. I tab out, and the battle.net program was 'broken'. When I clicked it it pulls up and is just a blue outline rather than having all sorts of info on the screen. At this point I have no idea what to do. Power, drivers(I did clean installs that people on forums and CS told me to, including their tactics), something wrong with my entire motherboard? If I just play WoW with no video stream going on, it tends to be fine, probably 90% of the time.
 
EDIT: It also seems that his computer runs faster than mine, even though I have a stronger CPU, mobo, and an SSD.


Inside the motherboard bios under pc health status check the +12v reading to see if it fluctuates more than .05. If it does fluctuate more than .05 your psu may have an issue.
2016/10/29 20:16:51
CrunCherTiMe
I checked that, and it did not fluctuate too much(checked it twice in the last 3~ months)
2016/11/01 12:46:39
wmmills
You might have to wipe the whole O/S and reinstall. How old is the current O/S install on your Pc now?! How many HDD/SSD's do you have, how filled are they and which ones are boot drives and which are just file/game/other drives?! Either that or you don't have the correct settings in your bios for the cpu vcore and settings for the ram. If your using XMP, don't. Manually set timings, voltage command rate. If your cpu vcore is too low your system will struggle and hardlock, among other weird things and if its too high it will bsod or freeze with a crazy audio loop going. Manually set vcore and put cpu back to stock, ram too save and reboot. Letting a mobo auto sense voltage rarely has good results..... for anything.
2016/11/01 14:34:47
Sajin
wmmills
You might have to wipe the whole O/S and reinstall.

+1
2016/11/01 20:50:44
XrayMan
Sajin
wmmills
You might have to wipe the whole O/S and reinstall.

+1




Ugh! I hate having to do that.
2016/11/02 07:48:48
wmmills
XrayMan
Sajin
wmmills
You might have to wipe the whole O/S and reinstall.

+1




Ugh! I hate having to do that.


Ya, me too. I think im going to have to do it myself and what kills me is I had a slipstream disc with updates right up to the win10 betas and I ran it over with computer chair, lol. Crunched a set of headphones that way too! I did it to myself though cause I did the win 10 upgrade over my main boot drive in the last week just to register the serial for 10, and after I confirmed it was registered I rolled back to 7 and ever since then the whole setup has been wonky. Ive got svchost.exe running amok and weird crashes, gpu runs 10c hotter than before it for no reason so when I get the time this week im going to punish myself and do it. Maybe make another slipstream disc....maybe like a dozen this time so I don't have this little problem again, lol. :P
2016/11/02 13:23:59
CrunCherTiMe
Do you think I should upgrade to windows 10 or keep windows 7? (maybe it'll be a problem that can fix it? no clue..but I'm thinking it might be the actual mobo)

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