Stumped on PC Lock-up.

So_Frustrated · 11-04-2008, 09:58 PM

Hi, I recently finished building my new PC from scratch and I'm having an issue I've never experienced before. Here is what I have for hardware-

Asus Striker II Extreme 790i Ultra
Qx6850 @ Stock Clock- 3.0ghz
1 GTX 280 SC Edition (EVGA)
Asus SupremeFX II (Came with Mobo)
OCZ Platinum 4gb DDR3 Ram 1600mhz Edition, running @ 1333 mhz (Auto settings for Bios)
With a 1000w Ultra X3 Modular Power Supply.

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit OEM with BIOS Revision 1004 for my motherboard. I flashed the BIOS using Asus EZ-Flash when the following issues started occuring. Flashing the BIOS showed no positive results in reference to my problem.

This isn't isolated to things that are system intensive, it just... happens- My Whole system locks up- No Blue screen, no error reports, no auto-restart, it simply locks up and I am forced to manually restart my system. I have ran 3D Mark several times to see if any issues would arise, and nothing. I have ran generic CPU stress tests, and while putting my processor/GPU under full load, nothing locks up. It's very random. I have stock settings on ALL hardware, I am using the Stock intel heatsink/fan with arctic silver 5. My case is a Thermaltake Armor+ with 3 additional fans in the chassis. According to Asus Probe, at load, my CPU reaches mid to high 40's, in Celsius.

My Ram is suppose to run @ 1.9 volts for 1600 mhz, so I went into Extreme Tweaker in the BIOS and changed it to 1.9 for now, but I've not upped the clock speed of the RAM yet. I have tried burning windows diagnostic AND memtest86 to a DVD using their ISO files, but for some reason I could not boot them up. My boot priority is set to CD-ROM, then HDD. I have no floppy drive. If I can boot Vista from a DVD, in theory, I should be able to boot a memory diagnostic, no? I tried letting it run to see if it'd auto-boot- Nope. I went into the boot utility and manually selected the drive in which the ISO Dvd was in- nothing, skipped straight to Vista.

I am so stumped on what this issue is, and I can't seem to run a test for my RAM, so I cannot isolate it down to hardware yet. Please, any suggestions, just anything would help me right now! As my user-name implies, I am so frustrated. I spent a good bit of money for this hardware, this also is NOT the first time I've built a PC from scratch, so I am just... ugh. I'm stumped.

So_Frustrated · 11-04-2008, 10:08 PM

To provide further information-

I do have all current windows updates, such as SP1.

All of my drivers are the most recent releases. When the system locked up, I looked inside my case to see if anything was not working- All fans/Hardware was still operating as normal. I have two hard drives- WD 150 and a WD 300 running in SATA. So I have a total of 450 gb of memory in HDD's, 3 extra intake fans, and am still stumped on why my pc is doing this.

11-04-2008, 09:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
So_Frustrated Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Vista 64-Bit	Stumped on PC Lock-up. Hi, I recently finished building my new PC from scratch and I'm having an issue I've never experienced before. Here is what I have for hardware- Asus Striker II Extreme 790i Ultra Qx6850 @ Stock Clock- 3.0ghz 1 GTX 280 SC Edition (EVGA) Asus SupremeFX II (Came with Mobo) OCZ Platinum 4gb DDR3 Ram 1600mhz Edition, running @ 1333 mhz (Auto settings for Bios) With a 1000w Ultra X3 Modular Power Supply. I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit OEM with BIOS Revision 1004 for my motherboard. I flashed the BIOS using Asus EZ-Flash when the following issues started occuring. Flashing the BIOS showed no positive results in reference to my problem. This isn't isolated to things that are system intensive, it just... happens- My Whole system locks up- No Blue screen, no error reports, no auto-restart, it simply locks up and I am forced to manually restart my system. I have ran 3D Mark several times to see if any issues would arise, and nothing. I have ran generic CPU stress tests, and while putting my processor/GPU under full load, nothing locks up. It's very random. I have stock settings on ALL hardware, I am using the Stock intel heatsink/fan with arctic silver 5. My case is a Thermaltake Armor+ with 3 additional fans in the chassis. According to Asus Probe, at load, my CPU reaches mid to high 40's, in Celsius. My Ram is suppose to run @ 1.9 volts for 1600 mhz, so I went into Extreme Tweaker in the BIOS and changed it to 1.9 for now, but I've not upped the clock speed of the RAM yet. I have tried burning windows diagnostic AND memtest86 to a DVD using their ISO files, but for some reason I could not boot them up. My boot priority is set to CD-ROM, then HDD. I have no floppy drive. If I can boot Vista from a DVD, in theory, I should be able to boot a memory diagnostic, no? I tried letting it run to see if it'd auto-boot- Nope. I went into the boot utility and manually selected the drive in which the ISO Dvd was in- nothing, skipped straight to Vista. I am so stumped on what this issue is, and I can't seem to run a test for my RAM, so I cannot isolate it down to hardware yet. Please, any suggestions, just anything would help me right now! As my user-name implies, I am so frustrated. I spent a good bit of money for this hardware, this also is NOT the first time I've built a PC from scratch, so I am just... ugh. I'm stumped. Last edited by So_Frustrated; 11-04-2008 at 10:00 PM.

11-04-2008, 10:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
So_Frustrated Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Vista 64-Bit	Re: Stumped on PC Lock-up. To provide further information- I do have all current windows updates, such as SP1. All of my drivers are the most recent releases. When the system locked up, I looked inside my case to see if anything was not working- All fans/Hardware was still operating as normal. I have two hard drives- WD 150 and a WD 300 running in SATA. So I have a total of 450 gb of memory in HDD's, 3 extra intake fans, and am still stumped on why my pc is doing this.