- Dec 13, 2014
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A few weeks ago I built a pc (specs in sig) and from the start it had a ton of issues. At first I had placed the RAM sticks in the grey slots. It wouldn't boot. Then I got it to work by putting one stick in and after pulling out the CMOS and correctly inserting the RAM it would finally boot. I was still cursed though, first install of Windows 8.1 (USB) had some shortcuts (control panel, file explorer) as blank pages and they wouldn't work. Second install, freezes galore! Random freezes that happened randomly, first they might not appear for 5 hours straight next thing you know, it freezes 3 times in a row. Now I'm not talking about 5 second freezes (which would be a blessing in comparison), no these lockups would be permanent. No cursor moving, nothing.
I thought it was a driver issue because of the "The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\SensorsAndLocationEnum\LPSensorSWDevice" event I would get in Event Viewer but even when I updated all my drivers the issue would persist. Fine, I said, let's try the hardware. I disconnected my SSD and the HDD also froze then it didn't for 6 hours and the day after, it wouldn't boot into W8.1. I disconnected the HDD and tried installing W7 on the SSD. The installation froze while doing the "Installing Updates" part, next 2 tries it froze on the "Expanding files" part. Every time I change RAM sticks positions the pc won't POST or give me any beeps. Then miraculously it boots after unplugging it for hours or whatever I did.
This is why I think it might be these factors:
RAM - the freezes occur randomly and memtest86 shut down the pc before it finished the first pass. (Little chance that the CPU overheats, I can't recall it going over 40C using Windows even while gaming)
M/B - because everytime I change the RAM positions it will act up. It would also only work with one slot when trying one stick.
HDD - the freezes happened many times when somethings happened in the GUI (eg. pressing install) and sometimes before the freeze the cursor would get the rotating blue circle before completely freezing. SMART also showed bad "Seek Error Rate".
SSD - Windows was installed here 'nuff said
PSU - not known to be a top notch premium quality PSU and pc sometimes doesn't cold boot and sometimes does.
Once I left the pc after a freeze and came back to SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION BSoD and upon installing W8.1 to my SSD it would BSoD because of a bad USB3 driver.
Sorry for the essay but I'm reeeaaallly tired of freezings and errors and not booting computers. Can someone give me a list of things I need to do to rule out the bad component?
I thought it was a driver issue because of the "The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\SensorsAndLocationEnum\LPSensorSWDevice" event I would get in Event Viewer but even when I updated all my drivers the issue would persist. Fine, I said, let's try the hardware. I disconnected my SSD and the HDD also froze then it didn't for 6 hours and the day after, it wouldn't boot into W8.1. I disconnected the HDD and tried installing W7 on the SSD. The installation froze while doing the "Installing Updates" part, next 2 tries it froze on the "Expanding files" part. Every time I change RAM sticks positions the pc won't POST or give me any beeps. Then miraculously it boots after unplugging it for hours or whatever I did.
This is why I think it might be these factors:
RAM - the freezes occur randomly and memtest86 shut down the pc before it finished the first pass. (Little chance that the CPU overheats, I can't recall it going over 40C using Windows even while gaming)
M/B - because everytime I change the RAM positions it will act up. It would also only work with one slot when trying one stick.
HDD - the freezes happened many times when somethings happened in the GUI (eg. pressing install) and sometimes before the freeze the cursor would get the rotating blue circle before completely freezing. SMART also showed bad "Seek Error Rate".
SSD - Windows was installed here 'nuff said
PSU - not known to be a top notch premium quality PSU and pc sometimes doesn't cold boot and sometimes does.
Once I left the pc after a freeze and came back to SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION BSoD and upon installing W8.1 to my SSD it would BSoD because of a bad USB3 driver.
Sorry for the essay but I'm reeeaaallly tired of freezings and errors and not booting computers. Can someone give me a list of things I need to do to rule out the bad component?
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