Hello all,
New poster - hope you can help!
I've recently acquired a cheap, second hand gaming rig which I'm having some trouble with. I'm getting BSOD, hangs or crashes when putting the system under heavy or prolonged load.
The spec (and what I believe to be relevant components are:
Intel I7-3770
ASRock H77-ITX
G.Skill ripjaw 4GBx2
The system initially began to crash when playing games like Rome 2 and CoH, but it wasn't overly frequent. With the arrival of Atilla TW however, it now crashes or hangs in any modest battle.
After a few searches, I found evidence in logs and dumps to suggest that a memory fault was present. I scanned both my C: SSD and G: SATA (where steam lives) and both ok. I then ran Memtedt86 and got 2 clean cycles.
Next I began to run the Intel Diagnostics Tool. This basically places up to 100% load on the CPU. It usually passes through once ok, but on the second concurrent run it will warn me that the CPU may shutdown - which ultimately it does. The system may then take a few moments to restart.
All this is leading me to suspect the CPU is overheating.
My question really is - is that likely?
If so, I don't believe I have overclocked anything (nor do I want to) so what should the settings in the H77 UEFI look like? I understand from research that this mobo doesn't welcome much OC action anyway. The firmware version is 1.9 by the way.
Any help appreciated - a buddy suggested I remove, repaste and reseat the CPU and heat sink.
Thanks
Matt
New poster - hope you can help!
I've recently acquired a cheap, second hand gaming rig which I'm having some trouble with. I'm getting BSOD, hangs or crashes when putting the system under heavy or prolonged load.
The spec (and what I believe to be relevant components are:
Intel I7-3770
ASRock H77-ITX
G.Skill ripjaw 4GBx2
The system initially began to crash when playing games like Rome 2 and CoH, but it wasn't overly frequent. With the arrival of Atilla TW however, it now crashes or hangs in any modest battle.
After a few searches, I found evidence in logs and dumps to suggest that a memory fault was present. I scanned both my C: SSD and G: SATA (where steam lives) and both ok. I then ran Memtedt86 and got 2 clean cycles.
Next I began to run the Intel Diagnostics Tool. This basically places up to 100% load on the CPU. It usually passes through once ok, but on the second concurrent run it will warn me that the CPU may shutdown - which ultimately it does. The system may then take a few moments to restart.
All this is leading me to suspect the CPU is overheating.
My question really is - is that likely?
If so, I don't believe I have overclocked anything (nor do I want to) so what should the settings in the H77 UEFI look like? I understand from research that this mobo doesn't welcome much OC action anyway. The firmware version is 1.9 by the way.
Any help appreciated - a buddy suggested I remove, repaste and reseat the CPU and heat sink.
Thanks
Matt