Constant CRC errors and more, help will be highly apreciated!

[Aztec_209]

Here are my specs:

Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H(new)
AMD Athlon x4 860k(new)
4GB 1600 Patriot memory(new)
HD 7870(used)
Cool Max PSU 700w(new)
X2 Seagate Baracuda 750gb(used)

Hopefully someone can help me solve 2 issues I will highly apreciate it.

*The first issue, blue screens or random reboots. I've checked the windows event log, and its giving me a "Kernel-Power error event 41" could it be the power supply?

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*The second and most frustrating one is constant CRC errors(cyclic redundancy check) at first I thought I had a bad GTA V copies, until I decided to install SWTOR and to my surprise the installed failed to install the first disk (no CRC error), Gave Battlefield Bad Company a try same, CRC error. What's causing this? I've tried:

- Memory test with MemTest86 PASSED
- Hard drive tests PASSED
-Graphic card stress tests PASSED
-CPU stress test PASSED
-Multiple DVD\CD roms FAILED (same CRC errors)
-Temps NORMAL

I'm literally pulling my hairs now, don't know what it is, what's causing it, what's worse, made my brother install the games, no CRC errors... :/ he even used one of the DVD/CD roms.....


Don't know what it is... can a hard drive(even though it passed the test) still be bad and cause this type of issues?

 

[ajhockey3]

The PSU could be bad. its a tier 5 (Worst)
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

 

[johnnyb105]

CRC errors are usually bad drive such as your dvd drive failing

 

[Aztec_209]

@ajhockey3 I'll test another psu have a working 600w.

@johnnyb105 That's what I thought so too, but my brother used one of the drives on his pc to install the games and worked fine...?

I got 3 theories:

1: Ram
2: PSU
3:HDD

Has to be one of those 3

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Aztec_209,

It may be a good idea to back up the data stored on the drives until you sort this out. Apart from that, you can try the following:
- Attach the drives with different cables(both SATA and power ones) to different SATA port. Also, test them with some tool that will provide a S.M.A.R.T. report, not a pass/fail grade. Check this out: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility
- In case you have another RAM stick, you can take yours out and try running your system with that one.
- It is good that you can try a different PSU.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[Aztec_209]

@D_Know_DW unfortunately I don't have a spare ram to use, but will try a different psu and hdd cables.

Omg now I'm having a new issue... I restarted the PC after installing gigabyte tools, I'm getting a blue screen that reads "Recovery" and every time I get a different file that's missing or that contains errors, I try safe mode, and it still won't go into windows... man this pc....

 

[D_Know_WD]

In case you have data stored on your OS drive, you need to use some data recovery for DOS.
One thing you can try is to just boot up Ubuntu either from a CD or USB flash drive, access your HDD and get all the data off of it. Check this out: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267999-32-recover-data-mode

D_Know_WD

 

[Aztec_209]

UPDATE:

After many hours or figuring this out, I believe I made small progress:

1: For some reason I decided to swap the graphic cards, removed the HD 7870, and installed an old HD 5450 and an old 160GB hard drive, installed a clean copy of windows 7(no drivers) and gave the game installations a try, SWTOR and GTA V installed with no errors FINALLY some progress. (Tried a clean copy of windows 7 with this old 160GB hdd and the HD 7870, and gave me problems during windows setup, so it also makes me believe now that the psu or the GFX card?.. man..)

2: This is were everything goes to hell, using the same setup (HD 5450 and the 160GB Drive) I do now a clean install of windows 8.1 (again no drivers) gave GTA V a try and almost instantly a CRC error....... getting ready to throw this new build away..

@D_Know_DW nothing is stored on the drive I apreciate it though

 

[Aztec_209]

After hours of no success, I decided to give MemTest86+ a try. On memory slot 1 and on the first pass it gave me an error, I let it ran for 2 1/2 passes which took 2 hours and found 7 errors. Ended up getting the same results when I switched the ram to memory slot 0.

Results:
Tst=8 | Pass=0 | Failing Address=0007ff39ef8 2047.5MB | Good=00000004 | Bad=00000000 | Err-Bits=00000004 |

I'll be buying new ram in a few hours, will report back it it finally solved it.

P.s. My motherboard only has 2 memory slots available, slot 0 runs the memory fine at full speed and correct timings, slot 1 in the other hand runs slower with lower timings?