OS/HDD Crash when I try to play a game of any kind.
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I've recently been in some major troubles, started basically with new AMD drivers screwing over me playing MGSV, which made me try a range of insane solutions. At some point in time I ended up updating BIOS drivers (don't worry, won't do that again), which I downgraded back to its usual version after some troubles.
I used to have 3 disks in a RAID but I have now completely disconnected that, so that was definitely not causing the issue. I am entertaining the possibility that it could be the RAM, but before wiping the RAID i had no real issues running memory-heavy programs (Photoshop, lightroom) that wasn't as heavy on the graphics.
I kind of feel like I'm coming back to GPU shit, but i genuinely don't know what the issue could be in that case. I'm in serious need of suggestions
Specs:
CPU:AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 32nm Technology
mem:16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 (can do 1866 mhz, but set at 1600 in Mobo since it uses all 4 DIMM slots)
Mobo:ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. SABERTOOTH 990FX (AM3r2)
GPU: 3072MB ATI AMD Radeon 7970 (ASUS)
I have an SSD with OS and 3 mechanical drives on 1.5 TB each. Launching a game from a mechanical drive seems to crash it out right, where as running it from SSD slowly crashes the OS before the computer automatically restarts itself. In the space of this happening I get several memory reference errors.
Run memtest86+, that will reliably test your RAM. Anything red it spits out is bad.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;48720616']Run memtest86+, that will reliably test your RAM. Anything red it spits out is bad.[/QUOTE]
Is there any chance that the RAM could be good but the frequency set by BIOS makes it fuck up? Or would I not be able to boot then?
[QUOTE=G-Strogg;48720629]Is there any chance that the RAM could be good but the frequency set by BIOS makes it fuck up? Or would I not be able to boot then?[/QUOTE]
If your board has your RAM speed and timings set to auto it's fine. See what memtest has to say before worrying about that yet.
Alright, thanks.
Ran it, no errors. What next?
[QUOTE=G-Strogg;48720599]started basically with new AMD drivers screwing over me playing MGSV, [/QUOTE]
have you tried using [URL="http://www.wagnardmobile.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=113"]DDU[/URL] to do a complete wipe of your GPU drivers, and reinstalling the newest beta?
Sometimes, graphics drivers can get corrupted and some games are fussier about it than others.
I haven't, but I'm very willing to give it a try.
[editline]20th September 2015[/editline]
It didn't help, sadly.
[editline]20th September 2015[/editline]
I guess there was some progress as i now got a BSOD instead of the PC just resetting.
Anyone have any more ideas for solutions? Or something I could do to at least help diagnose the problem?
Might help to tell us which bluescreen it was. Fault module and error code and what not.
The BSOD mention the classical memory reference fault thing, but I can't remember exactly what it said. Of course mentioned which addresses that fucked up.
For how long did you let memtest run?
the normal STOP: 0x000000F4(relevant addresses)
[editline]20th September 2015[/editline]
I let memtest run until it said pass: 1 and a message in the bottom of the screen said "TEST FINISHED, PRESS [ESC] TO EXIT"
[editline]20th September 2015[/editline]
I just used MemtestCL to check video memory...
[img]http://puu.sh/khPfh/cc8c21f0ea.png[/img]
I think I found where the problem is, at least.
[editline]20th September 2015[/editline]
Or not! A friend of mine just tested with his own 7950, and he doesnt have issues, but he got the same result on the test....
well, I'm at a loss now, at least.
1 pass of memtest isn't nearly enough, when I test memory I let it run for at least a day
Is that so? I guess I will have to give it another try soon.
What's your driver packaging version?
[editline]23rd September 2015[/editline]
Also, did you look into the bsod crash dump?
Also, did you check windows system logs?
Those are your best sources for more info.
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