burningforce Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 hello all, I am having a problem with my computer and was wondering you could help me verify the culprit. i had built this system 1-2 years ago and it has been working great, that is until a few weeks ago. Whenever I play games or do anything that brings the computer to higher load then normal, my computer just locks up. there is no warning and from what i can tell no pattern to the freezing. this is what I have done to eliminate the problem, but nothing has worked so far. I tried reformatting thinking it was a driver/program doing it, I checked and made sure it was not a heat issue, i checked windows logs and only saw that i got an "kernel-power" error after the system was forced reset, my operating system is up to date and other programs(anti-virus, drivers, etc) as well. I originally was overclocked to 3.0Ghz, but reverted to optimal defaults in the bios and the freezing still occurs. the only thing I have not and can not check without a multimeter is the power supply and or motherboard. also I read that dirty power and surges can cause the freezing, I do get flickering lights from time to time in my small town home. so from your expertise, do you think it could be a bad power supply not regulating power correctly? what other way can I check the power supply to make sure it is giving enough juice to my hardware other then buying a power supply tester, etc? thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 1, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 1, 2009 Bad power is certainly one of the many possible cause of this problem. However, I would definitely suggest you to look into the RAM first as you are running 4 up. The easiest way to test the RAM is to use http://www.memtest.org and run it over night to see if you get any errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningforce Posted October 2, 2009 Author Share Posted October 2, 2009 hello RAM GUY, I changed trfc to 80 and changed MCH core to 1.40 and changed dram voltage from 2.08 to 2.1 as per my ram dealers specification for this motherboard. I ran memtest+ overnight and after 7passes and 10hours of testing, there were no errors. I will clean out the dust and check everything else again. So far it has not crashed today, I hope that it is fixed :) Thanks for you're suggestion and if I have more crashes I will reply to this thread again. regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 2, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 2, 2009 no problem :): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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