Minor glitch with new PC build

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Jamin43

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I've had my PC on 24/7 since I built it this past Saturday. Ran Prime 95 for 2 hours - and tested everything out as best I could. All seems to be working as it should - except to one minor glitch.

I've had 2 screen freezes - where my PC will be unused - and the screen will lock up and have a distorted picture. Not a blue screen - but where the entire screen kindof grids up and is distorted - where you can make out what's on the screen through the gridlike pattern - but it's clearly distorted. None of the keystrokes respond - and when a Reset is the only way I can correct. MY pc then prompts me to choose a safe startup or regular startup.

I'm not overclocking - so my system should be stable - and it never froze up like this running Prime 95.

Is this a Windows7 RC issue? or is it more likely hardware related? Anybody experience anythign like this - is it something I should be trying to correct?

Thanks
 
Since no one else has posted on this ill just leave you a note that ive never even heard of something like that happening. It very well could be the Release Candidate but i couldnt tell you. Whats your GPU? just out of curiousity.
 
IBM_nut said:
Since no one else has posted on this ill just leave you a note that ive never even heard of something like that happening. It very well could be the Release Candidate but i couldnt tell you. Whats your GPU? just out of curiousity.
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It's listed in my sig line. EVGA 9800 GTX+
 
Another thing is your gpu could be overheating... download evga precision and post what kinda temps it is, i would recommend setting the fanspeed to 100% though.
 
bomberboysk said:
Another thing is your gpu could be overheating... download evga precision and post what kinda temps it is, i would recommend setting the fanspeed to 100% though.
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I don't think that's the problem. Both times my screen froze - it was while the computer was resting and I came to use it - rather than during a graphic intensive function.
 
There can be a bunch of different reasons why your computer freezes. What kind of butter are you using on your cpu? it could have to much and not getting proper heat transfer. You said that you have ran it 24/7 but most paste need a break in period like a car so that it can set proper.
 
HellKat said:
There can be a bunch of different reasons why your computer freezes. What kind of butter are you using on your cpu? it could have to much and not getting proper heat transfer. You said that you have ran it 24/7 but most paste need a break in period like a car so that it can set proper.
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The thermal paste should still work fine even without being broken in. Have you checked your timings? They could not be setup right....
 
HellKat said:
There can be a bunch of different reasons why your computer freezes. What kind of butter are you using on your cpu? it could have to much and not getting proper heat transfer. You said that you have ran it 24/7 but most paste need a break in period like a car so that it can set proper.
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It happened again tonight - ( that's 2 x today ) so I just finished a fresh install of Windows 7 RC to rule that out.

I'll check the other things you mentioned in the next day or 2. As far as heat transfer - I got some Arctic Silver tube on my desk unopened - but right now I"m using the OEM buddah. Temps for CPU have been ranging from 38-39 idle - to around 50 max for any core in my daily usage. I"ve had coretemp on my desktop window open pretty much all the time - to get familiar with my PC.

One thing I did notice - when going through my BIOS before refreshed install - was that my RAM ( G.Skill 1600 ) was only registering at 1333 or 1033 ( can't remember which one ). I'll have to look into that as well -as my next task. If I can't get it to register as 1600, I should have gone with the OCZ - b/c I know that's plug and play at 1,600 out of the box.

I'm still a PC newbie - so all this BIOS - stuff - and tweaking things is all new to me. All of my other PC's have been Dells set up and tweaked at Dell.

EDIT : I just downloaded AVG - and Malawarebytes - and ran both. The Malawarebytes found 1 malawarebyte.

Vendor: Hijack.display.properties
Category: Registry Data
Items : HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoActiveDesktopChanges
Other: Bad(1) Good (0)
Action Taken: No Action Taken

The first time I installed Windows7RC - I deleted this file when it came up as a malawarebyte. So far I'm reserving deleting this file until somebody can explain if / why I should keep or delete.

Thanks
 
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Jamin43 said:
EDIT : I just downloaded AVG - and Malawarebytes - and ran both. The Malawarebytes found 1 malawarebyte.

Vendor: Hijack.display.properties
Category: Registry Data
Items : HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoActiveDesktopChanges
Other: Bad(1) Good (0)
Action Taken: No Action Taken

The first time I installed Windows7RC - I deleted this file when it came up as a malawarebyte. So far I'm reserving deleting this file until somebody can explain if / why I should keep or delete.

Thanks
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I was doing some research of your malware find and it looks to be a false positive find. A lot of people are white listing it so definitely dont delete. This is from the malware bytes forums itself. http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7653&st=0
 
Jamin43 said:
It happened again tonight - ( that's 2 x today ) so I just finished a fresh install of Windows 7 RC to rule that out.

I'll check the other things you mentioned in the next day or 2. As far as heat transfer - I got some Arctic Silver tube on my desk unopened - but right now I"m using the OEM buddah. Temps for CPU have been ranging from 38-39 idle - to around 50 max for any core in my daily usage. I"ve had coretemp on my desktop window open pretty much all the time - to get familiar with my PC.

One thing I did notice - when going through my BIOS before refreshed install - was that my RAM ( G.Skill 1600 ) was only registering at 1333 or 1033 ( can't remember which one ). I'll have to look into that as well -as my next task. If I can't get it to register as 1600, I should have gone with the OCZ - b/c I know that's plug and play at 1,600 out of the box.

I'm still a PC newbie - so all this BIOS - stuff - and tweaking things is all new to me. All of my other PC's have been Dells set up and tweaked at Dell.

EDIT : I just downloaded AVG - and Malawarebytes - and ran both. The Malawarebytes found 1 malawarebyte.

Vendor: Hijack.display.properties
Category: Registry Data
Items : HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoActiveDesktopChanges
Other: Bad(1) Good (0)
Action Taken: No Action Taken

The first time I installed Windows7RC - I deleted this file when it came up as a malawarebyte. So far I'm reserving deleting this file until somebody can explain if / why I should keep or delete.

Thanks
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Actually, the ocz memory probably wouldnt have registered the correct speed either. Most motherboards dont set the correct memory speed for you automatically. You will want to set that to 1600mhz, then also set the correct latencies for the memory.
 
bomberboysk said:
Actually, the ocz memory probably wouldnt have registered the correct speed either. Most motherboards dont set the correct memory speed for you automatically. You will want to set that to 1600mhz, then also set the correct latencies for the memory.
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My local Microcenter guy said that OCZ memory did in fact register as 1600 out of the box. They were sold out of the particular RAM - so I don't think he was trying to sell me not to buy something they didn't have in stock.

I haven't tried it myself - obviously b/c I don't own that RAM - but I can't find a reason he'd by making it up on this one.
 
Jamin43 said:
My local Microcenter guy said that OCZ memory did in fact register as 1600 out of the box. They were sold out of the particular RAM - so I don't think he was trying to sell me not to buy something they didn't have in stock.

I haven't tried it myself - obviously b/c I don't own that RAM - but I can't find a reason he'd by making it up on this one.
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Memory registering at the correct speed doesnt really have anything to do with the memory and more the mobo, and your better off with ocz anyway as there have been alot of compatibility issues with ocz memory and nvidia boards(not sure on the evga X58 boards tho). What are the cas latencies of the g.skill memory?
 
In case anybody else is having a similar problem - I re-installed Windows 7 RC and it looks like everything is working fine now. I think the problem arose when I deleted a false malaware pick up with malawarebytes. I ignored it this time - and so far - my PC hasn't frozen since.
 
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