Richardf Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Hi I am really going mental about Vista 64 and i really need some help. I built my system about a year ago and had no issues until about 3 months ago, the computer randomly freezes and lets out a squealing noise from the speakers not the box. I thought it could be the sound of death with creative sound cards but i bought an asus one (Xonar) and that just made a different noise (also it is the worst sound card ever). When the computer freezes the bios clock is still going but i cannot exit the program and need to restart. This mainly happens in games completly randomly (5 minutes or or 4 hours in) but has also happened when on the desktop. I have updated my bios, reinstalled video drivers, changed the sound card and even went back to onboard sound. I also reinstalled vista and avoided the updates and all my drivers have the latest updates. I have also bought a brand new Video card deluding myself that this was my old one overheating and within 5 minutes it had the same fault! Could this be the RAM as i upgraded from 4GB to 8GB and this is the only major change i made to the rig! Does anyone have any ideas>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Are both pairs the same version? Test one stick at a time in the same slot using Memtest 86+ v4.00. Maybe the speakers are just going bad, or something else is causing electro magnetic interference to cause the sound, or does the sound only happen when it crashes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 7, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 7, 2009 And what are the BIOS settings for both CPU and memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardf Posted November 9, 2009 Author Share Posted November 9, 2009 Well after all this i removed 4gb of ram and now the system works fine. no crashing or annoying beeps. However this defies the point of having 64 bit as 8GB with my motherboard should be no issues at all.... has anyone heard of this problem before? or could it be faulty ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 11, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 11, 2009 With 4 modules I would suggest setting the memory frequency at DDR1066 or DDR1333 and set the memory Voltage to 1.7-1.90 Volts and set the NB/MCH/SPP Voltage to +.05 Volts as well and test the system with http://www.memtest.org. In addition, with some MB's (Mostly ASUS) you have to disable legacy USB in the bios when running any memory test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeweetog Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Hi, There are quite a few people having the same issue as you have. Also with the striker II extreme. It seems that you have to tweak your system to get it stable. Check out the asus forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardf Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 I cant believe that the motherboard has this sort of issue when it was meant to be one of the best around designed for gaming rigs!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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