Hallo mede-tweakers. Ik heb mijn topic ook bij tom's hardware gepost maar daar bleven de reacties tot nu toe uit, dus bij deze dat ik mijn issue hier ook post.
Ik heb de post in het engels geschreven, maar dat moet voor jullie geen probleem zijn =)
About a year ago I custom built a desktop consisting of the following hardware:
- AMD Phenom X@ on 4,3GhZ
- 2x4gb 1333MHz DDR3
- Samsung 830 256GB SSD
- ATI Radeon 9870
- Asrock 970 Extreme 4
3 weeks ago, the system started to freeze every once in a while. My screen shuts down, sound goes on for a few seconds, then "Brrrrrr" and the pc shuts down. I checked temps, all below 50 degrees. Not a lot of dust on fan, no changes in hardware configuration, so I thought maybe a bad driver.
last week I started running into more problems:
-The ethernet port was regularly not working. The lights on my backpanel weren't even on. Windows 7 diagnostic said "plug an ethernet cable in the ethernet port". About one fourth of the time when I reinstall the realtek ethernet driver, the port went back online.
- Sometimes during boot my SSD could not be detected, so no boot device was found and windows wouldn't even start.
- Windows would sometimes freeze starting with the taskbar. During freezes all that works was my mouse pointer. Windows would not respond to "control alt delete" either.
At this point I thought software problem, I then formatted my SSD and put a fresh install of Windows 7 with clean updated drivers on it. After a few hours it started crashing again. Ethernet port stops working or windows randomly freezes again.
So now I'm thinking hardware. I then flashed my Bios to the newest version, all default settings, yet still the problem persisted. After that I ran windows memory diagnostic tool, my RAM seemed to be just fine. Then I scanned my HDD for bad sectors, none found.
I think that maybe here's something wrong with the southbridge on my motherboard. But I'm not really sure what to test next.
Any help would be appreciated,
Gannicus.
Ik heb de post in het engels geschreven, maar dat moet voor jullie geen probleem zijn =)
About a year ago I custom built a desktop consisting of the following hardware:
- AMD Phenom X@ on 4,3GhZ
- 2x4gb 1333MHz DDR3
- Samsung 830 256GB SSD
- ATI Radeon 9870
- Asrock 970 Extreme 4
3 weeks ago, the system started to freeze every once in a while. My screen shuts down, sound goes on for a few seconds, then "Brrrrrr" and the pc shuts down. I checked temps, all below 50 degrees. Not a lot of dust on fan, no changes in hardware configuration, so I thought maybe a bad driver.
last week I started running into more problems:
-The ethernet port was regularly not working. The lights on my backpanel weren't even on. Windows 7 diagnostic said "plug an ethernet cable in the ethernet port". About one fourth of the time when I reinstall the realtek ethernet driver, the port went back online.
- Sometimes during boot my SSD could not be detected, so no boot device was found and windows wouldn't even start.
- Windows would sometimes freeze starting with the taskbar. During freezes all that works was my mouse pointer. Windows would not respond to "control alt delete" either.
At this point I thought software problem, I then formatted my SSD and put a fresh install of Windows 7 with clean updated drivers on it. After a few hours it started crashing again. Ethernet port stops working or windows randomly freezes again.
So now I'm thinking hardware. I then flashed my Bios to the newest version, all default settings, yet still the problem persisted. After that I ran windows memory diagnostic tool, my RAM seemed to be just fine. Then I scanned my HDD for bad sectors, none found.
I think that maybe here's something wrong with the southbridge on my motherboard. But I'm not really sure what to test next.
Any help would be appreciated,
Gannicus.