Recent content by NBKEEP

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    Did I fry my motherboard? Burning smell, heavily detailed description

    Hello everyone, last night I had a problem with my homebuilt computer. I'll try to give as many details as possible, so here we go. My Rig: MSI Z-77 Motherboard 3.4GHz, i5 processor EVGA GTX 770 GPU 8 GB RAM (Ripjaw) 120 GB Kingston SSD 1TB GB HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200 CX750M Corsair...
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    Home Built Rig Causing BSODs and Crashing While Gaming

    Thank you for your response, Caeden. I did what you said to do first with the updates and such. All my Windows updates were up to date, I ran a driver scan with Slimdrivers and they were also all up to par. However, when I downloaded CCleaner and ran the registry scan, I found 96 issues with it...
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    Home Built Rig Causing BSODs and Crashing While Gaming

    Hello everyone, I'm going to try and be as precise and to the point as I can to minimalize questions and to help get helpful advice (as I always do on this forum!) I have been having issues ever since I built this computer for Christmas with BSODs and random shut downs and/or freezes while...
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    What is a Safe OC for this Rig?

    To be specific, my PSU is a CX750M. And I'm guessing that the 4.5 - 4.6 is a good OC, you're saying?
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    What is a Safe OC for this Rig?

    Here's my rig, and I'm completely new to the overclocking scene and what is safe and what temps/voltages may damage my hardware: Operating System Windows 8.1 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.40GHz Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 804MHz (11-11-11-28)...
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    Games and Heavy Load Causing Blue Screens, Lock-ups, and Freezes? - HEAVILY DESCRIPTED

    Just to keep you guys updated, I took my rig into a professional and he ran a day's worth of hardware testing and scanning, just to find everything was okay. He did find that my Intel Chipset Driver was not properly installed, and that my Mobo's Atheros Bluetooth device/driver was messing up my...
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    Games and Heavy Load Causing Blue Screens, Lock-ups, and Freezes? - HEAVILY DESCRIPTED

    Well, it would probably help if I told you I ran D-Ban and more than likely/guarantee I deleted that file when I nuked my SSD. I also looked though my C: drive again, just to make sure I had no other errors, and I'm coming up clean in that department, John. My mistake, Tom, it wasn't "Windows...
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    Games and Heavy Load Causing Blue Screens, Lock-ups, and Freezes? - HEAVILY DESCRIPTED

    Tom, I went back and followed your instructions step-by-step and so far..everything has been perfect! I only did the first step of running "D-Ban" and wiping the SSD (no errors found), then reinstalling Windows 8.1. There have only been two noticable differences after that: 1. Windows 8 is...
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    Games and Heavy Load Causing Blue Screens, Lock-ups, and Freezes? - HEAVILY DESCRIPTED

    Okay, looks like I'll follow those steps when I have a good deal of time to kill. I haven't accumulated any data on here that would need to be backed up, so even wiping the hard drive again isn't an issue. Thanks for the extremely in-depth answer for this strange problem. I'll keep you posted!
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    Games and Heavy Load Causing Blue Screens, Lock-ups, and Freezes? - HEAVILY DESCRIPTED

    Okay, Tom, here's the information from both Speccy and MSI Afterburner when run on Payday 2 with all effects on high or very high. SPECCY (Idle Values): http://gyazo.com/de38598ec4cb7965aa384f7d7d647ec2 MSI Afterburner (Directly after playing): http://gyazo.com/6083e3ef297d8f1e7bafa2883307494d...
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    Games and Heavy Load Causing Blue Screens, Lock-ups, and Freezes? - HEAVILY DESCRIPTED

    Just as the title says, and below is what I have done, along with my specs: 1. I ran a Memtest86, nothing was found to be wrong with my RAM. 2. I ran a Furmark test to test my GPU, it ran great and didnt shut down my computer at all. 3. While running Furmark, I tested how much power was being...
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    Shut Downs, Restarts, Blue Screens When Gaming; Win 8.1

    Sorry for taking so long to respond back to this thread. Over the last few days I've been testing a lot of things.. and here's what I have concluded. 1. I ran a Memtest86, nothing was found to be wrong with my RAM. 2. I ran a Furmark test to test my GPU, it ran great and didnt shut down my...
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    Shut Downs, Restarts, Blue Screens When Gaming; Win 8.1

    There were multiple errors, I think I've counted 5 different error codes when my BSOD pops up..unfortunately I can't remember them all, but I'll try 1. "Page Fault in Non-Page Area" 2. "K-Mode Exception Not Handled" 3. There was something about kernels, too..I just forget what it is Then there...
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    Shut Downs, Restarts, Blue Screens When Gaming; Win 8.1

    Now, if the system didn't receive enough voltages under load, that's when the screen would turn black I presume, since if it blue screens power is still going to the computer? Yesterday I had little trouble with blue screens and now today I've had two