Why me? Help?

teamhex

teamhex

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I just built the PC in my sig, I got my new video card in yesterday and everything seemed good. I had to remformat because of random issues, but after doing that I started a download for stuff overnight last night, and when I woke up the pc was locked up. Rebooted, everything worked fine, 10 mins then it locked up. I unplugged everything off the board and plugged it all back in now the monitor doesnt kick on. WTF do I do. Im flipping out, I just built this thing and spent alot of money on it. I haven't even been able to play anything on my new card yet.....any advice?
 
Okay do you have access to a pietzo buzzer for your PC? It'll be a small buzzer with a front panel connector. If you can, connect this to the motherboard and unplug everything but the CPU, CPU fan and the two power cables. Theoretically if the board is working then it'll beep to say there's a memory issue (i.e. there isn't any). If you can't then try different combo's of memory.
 
PabloTeK said:
Okay do you have access to a pietzo buzzer for your PC? It'll be a small buzzer with a front panel connector. If you can, connect this to the motherboard and unplug everything but the CPU, CPU fan and the two power cables. Theoretically if the board is working then it'll beep to say there's a memory issue (i.e. there isn't any). If you can't then try different combo's of memory.
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It was working 2 mins ago, I have no idea what your talking about. I dont know about any buzzer. I cant think of anything to do. It was working fine last night, then it was locking up today, I thought it was the HD. Then I unplugged the power off the board and took my cpu fan off, I think I put to much paste on there but still I put it back on and plugged everything in and its not working.
 
The pietzo is basically a small buzzer that gives you a series of beeps on start-up but it seems your motherboard nor case has one which is a bit of a sod. Try having the video card in and moving memory around, taking sticks out etc to see if that's causing the problem.
 
PabloTeK said:
The pietzo is basically a small buzzer that gives you a series of beeps on start-up but it seems your motherboard nor case has one which is a bit of a sod. Try having the video card in and moving memory around, taking sticks out etc to see if that's causing the problem.
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I got it to boot now, its still locking up after 10mins or so, what now? I thought it was my hd, but iv tried 3 different ones. I noticed when I was installing the os on the other drives it would sometimes lock after like 10mins or so as well. I really dont know what to do, Iv never encountered this type of problem, this is also brand new gear, not older then 2 weeks or so. I noticed when it does lock up it the usb goes off too. The lights on the keyboard and mouse just go off. The one thing iv added sense last night when It started acting up was the new 4870, I really dont know if thats whats causing this but, I guess I could try another video card in there. Any other advice would be great.
 
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No one? I just tryed swapping video cards. Still locks up, im going to move the ram around, if that doesn't work. I dont know, does this sound like a processor or motherboard issue?
 
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Update, not that anyone cares.... :) I pulled a ram stick out and its got 1 gig in it now, and its so far not locking(*edit* I take that back, its locking but it took alot longer this time). What do I do!!!!
My Core temps for both cores is 37c or so.
I guess no one knows anything then? Any similar experiences ?
 
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Well, for those that care and have been reading, I went to ASUS's site, apparently these boards have power saving features that are defaulted on. What happens is, when you processor goes to idle and isnt loaded it enables some kind of power feature thats not compatiable with the processor's voltage or something like that. I changed them all to disable, and im running my pc now and after about 8 mins here it hasn't locked. People are saying that this fixes it so....It seems to be doing ok.
 
how is it doing now? im really surprised that nobody responded here, its not a difficult problem to solve, really.

but if you cannot get your fix to work then maybe just a small bump in the Vcore will set it straight. if it does have something to do with processor power management then its probably just turning the vcore down too much when its not under load.
 
Haha same, everything just seems to point to RAM.

Download and burn Memtest86 to a CD and boot from it to make sure.
 
lovely? said:
how is it doing now? im really surprised that nobody responded here, its not a difficult problem to solve, really.

but if you cannot get your fix to work then maybe just a small bump in the Vcore will set it straight. if it does have something to do with processor power management then its probably just turning the vcore down too much when its not under load.
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It wasnt easy, it was a simple issue, thats exactly what it was doing, the board has stupid power saving features, and they have weird names and dont tell you exactly what they do, I had no clue man. So I disabled them...and man I have to say, its running great. Ill start gaming in an hour and give this new g card a work out, iv never gone that many days without being able to use a new toy. :D I figured someone would have been interested in it but I guess not, no biggy I should have done what I did last night and look it up on ASUS's site.
 
oscaryu1 said:
Haha same, everything just seems to point to RAM.

Download and burn Memtest86 to a CD and boot from it to make sure.
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Yeah wasn't ram, but that's what I was thinking man. I finally got this new computer built like 2 weeks ago. How'd you fair in the hurricane man?
 
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