Hello folks, longtime lurker, first time poster.
I recently put together a new desktop:
i7 920 2.66 8m lga1366
asus p6t x58 socket lga1366 mobo
patriot viper 6144mb pc10666 ddr3 1333mghz =, 12 gigs in 6 sticks using all slots
geforce gtx 295 red edition (sucker's big)
hitachi 1tb serial ata hd 7200/16mb/sata-3g
antec 1000 watt power supply
antec case (top gaming model; massive top fan, two fans rear, three fans front)
Vista home premium 32
So basically, my system freezes. At any given time. More common when simply idling on windows desktop or surfing the net, but cn and has happened anywhere (WEIRD EXCEPTION: never while playing Day of Defeat on Steam...). My heat isn't an issue for the cpu, and while my video card gets a bit hot, it's within norms for its model. I'm at my wits end. I have unwired and reqired so many times. Earlier I made a boo-boo: I went into the BIOS andupped voltage for ram to 1.7... now I don't POST and boot (so I took the lithium battery out and then placed back in to manually reset bios). Nothing I do is fixing this issue.
i use a usb plug in type wireless adapter to pick up my linksys wireless router one room over on thesystem i am currently using to type this, it's a linksys range plus. I built this comp from scratch using parts purchased seperately, this is the first time I have assembled my own rig. what went wrong? it seems a lot of people with i7 920 processor have a freezing issue. has there been a definate solve? I just got home from Iraq and all I want to do is to be able to use my new rig for more than 10 minutes without a hard freeze!
interesting facts: seems playing games makes it LESS prone to freeze (but it will still happen). I have played mass effect for hours nonstop without a freeze, as well as day of defeat on steam. however, idling on desktop with only a few widgets open and no tasks running and it will freeze almost alwaus within 15 minutes. also, playing dawn of war (original, winter assault, soulstorm and dark crusade) will GAURANTEE a freeze in under half an hour, while the more recent and more intensive dawn of war 2 has never frozen my computer. WTF?! this i7 freezing thing seems to make no sense on the surface.... PLEASE HELP! =/
- john
I recently put together a new desktop:
i7 920 2.66 8m lga1366
asus p6t x58 socket lga1366 mobo
patriot viper 6144mb pc10666 ddr3 1333mghz =, 12 gigs in 6 sticks using all slots
geforce gtx 295 red edition (sucker's big)
hitachi 1tb serial ata hd 7200/16mb/sata-3g
antec 1000 watt power supply
antec case (top gaming model; massive top fan, two fans rear, three fans front)
Vista home premium 32
So basically, my system freezes. At any given time. More common when simply idling on windows desktop or surfing the net, but cn and has happened anywhere (WEIRD EXCEPTION: never while playing Day of Defeat on Steam...). My heat isn't an issue for the cpu, and while my video card gets a bit hot, it's within norms for its model. I'm at my wits end. I have unwired and reqired so many times. Earlier I made a boo-boo: I went into the BIOS andupped voltage for ram to 1.7... now I don't POST and boot (so I took the lithium battery out and then placed back in to manually reset bios). Nothing I do is fixing this issue.
i use a usb plug in type wireless adapter to pick up my linksys wireless router one room over on thesystem i am currently using to type this, it's a linksys range plus. I built this comp from scratch using parts purchased seperately, this is the first time I have assembled my own rig. what went wrong? it seems a lot of people with i7 920 processor have a freezing issue. has there been a definate solve? I just got home from Iraq and all I want to do is to be able to use my new rig for more than 10 minutes without a hard freeze!
interesting facts: seems playing games makes it LESS prone to freeze (but it will still happen). I have played mass effect for hours nonstop without a freeze, as well as day of defeat on steam. however, idling on desktop with only a few widgets open and no tasks running and it will freeze almost alwaus within 15 minutes. also, playing dawn of war (original, winter assault, soulstorm and dark crusade) will GAURANTEE a freeze in under half an hour, while the more recent and more intensive dawn of war 2 has never frozen my computer. WTF?! this i7 freezing thing seems to make no sense on the surface.... PLEASE HELP! =/
- john