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- Mar 23, 2005
Bought a nice setup for my wife to have a VR machine from the classifieds here. Since the new GTX 1070 was on order I set everything up with the built in graphics. Win10 installed, various testing tools, and I started the OC. Amazing Sandy Bridge setup. Clocks up to 4.4 with 1.25 volts and runs EVERYTHING without fail. I was pretty happy.
Then the 1070 arrived. I installed the latest nVidia driver and all seemed to be working for a little while and then I started getting some freezes. System would just freeze the screen and become unresponsive. It happened when i would execute something that switched to the GPU. After some restarts and fiddling it seemed to get worse, to the point that it would sometimes crash right in to windows.
So what do we do? Set everything back to stock. No difference. Still same behavior. Update BIOS on Z77 Extreme4 MOB, disable integrated GPU in bios. Double and triple check all bios settings. Still no good. Memtest good overnight.
Trying to narrow it down I swap in my GTX 1080 from my machine. Seems good! Run some games and, yep. it's working. Must be a bad GPU I got. Bummer, but I solved it, right? NOPE!!! After a little while the 1080 starts exhibiting the same behavior!
I swap PCI-E slots, change PSU power cables (PSU BTW was running my dual 1080s before swapping it in, so it's good - HX850i). All no good.
Pulling my hair out. I swap back in the 1070 and of course it's all trouble. Swap back in the 1080 and it seems to work again for about 20 minutes and then the problems start again.
I have checked almost everything at this point, so I'm starting to suspect the motherboard. Bummer, but it's okay if the nightmare ends.
I decide to try one last thing. I swap in my Windows 7 system drive from my other PC. Boots up, drivers install, restarts and viola. i'm in windows. 12 hours later, no freezes. No crashes. 3d Apps run flawlessly. Games, Unigive Heaven...it all works, even back at the 4.4 OC settings.
My other Windows 10 machine (X99) works just fine after the update yesterday, so i am not really suspecting that, but this is a different MB after all. WHAT THE F*** COULD BE CAUSING THIS? I have gone device by device installing the latest driver updates and testing for stability only to still get these freeze ups. I was all ready to find the bad hardware, and the hardware is fine. It's better than fine. It's the coldest and fastest OC I've seen in a long time.
This is a brand new Win 10 install. I have some steam apps, unigine heaven, and a few stability/bench apps and that's it. I pulled out the wireless cards, swapped SSDs, disabled the IGPU, disabled the second SATA controller. I did let windows do all available updates right after the install, which included the big update that just dropped. As I said, my X99 system had no problems with it. I even rolled back the nVidia drivers, and always select clean install.
Any ideas? I guess I finally met my match with this system.
Then the 1070 arrived. I installed the latest nVidia driver and all seemed to be working for a little while and then I started getting some freezes. System would just freeze the screen and become unresponsive. It happened when i would execute something that switched to the GPU. After some restarts and fiddling it seemed to get worse, to the point that it would sometimes crash right in to windows.
So what do we do? Set everything back to stock. No difference. Still same behavior. Update BIOS on Z77 Extreme4 MOB, disable integrated GPU in bios. Double and triple check all bios settings. Still no good. Memtest good overnight.
Trying to narrow it down I swap in my GTX 1080 from my machine. Seems good! Run some games and, yep. it's working. Must be a bad GPU I got. Bummer, but I solved it, right? NOPE!!! After a little while the 1080 starts exhibiting the same behavior!
I swap PCI-E slots, change PSU power cables (PSU BTW was running my dual 1080s before swapping it in, so it's good - HX850i). All no good.
Pulling my hair out. I swap back in the 1070 and of course it's all trouble. Swap back in the 1080 and it seems to work again for about 20 minutes and then the problems start again.
I have checked almost everything at this point, so I'm starting to suspect the motherboard. Bummer, but it's okay if the nightmare ends.
I decide to try one last thing. I swap in my Windows 7 system drive from my other PC. Boots up, drivers install, restarts and viola. i'm in windows. 12 hours later, no freezes. No crashes. 3d Apps run flawlessly. Games, Unigive Heaven...it all works, even back at the 4.4 OC settings.
My other Windows 10 machine (X99) works just fine after the update yesterday, so i am not really suspecting that, but this is a different MB after all. WHAT THE F*** COULD BE CAUSING THIS? I have gone device by device installing the latest driver updates and testing for stability only to still get these freeze ups. I was all ready to find the bad hardware, and the hardware is fine. It's better than fine. It's the coldest and fastest OC I've seen in a long time.
This is a brand new Win 10 install. I have some steam apps, unigine heaven, and a few stability/bench apps and that's it. I pulled out the wireless cards, swapped SSDs, disabled the IGPU, disabled the second SATA controller. I did let windows do all available updates right after the install, which included the big update that just dropped. As I said, my X99 system had no problems with it. I even rolled back the nVidia drivers, and always select clean install.
Any ideas? I guess I finally met my match with this system.