Hi All, I've used this forum a ton due to all the great response you all give.
I've finally hit a wall with my PC and need to make difficult financial decisions
In short, I have an oldish system that I overclocked and was running rock steady. I recently moved and now have had constant issues.
Intel i5-3770k 3.5GHz (was overclocked to 4.3)
cryorig H7 air cooler
gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H motherboard
Radeon RX580 Nitro+ sapphire 8GB
Corsair RM650i PSU
2x Kingstons HyperX RAM 8GB
So the story goes. After moving I set up the system and pressed power. It gave a continous short beep error and would then attempt to restart, rinse and repeat.
Ultimately, I took everything out of the case, breadboarded it and gradually added devices back. I also took out the CMOS battery and reset the BIOS (using the pins). I also reapplied thermal paste to my CPU and put in some rubber stands for the motherboard.
This seemed to work.
Except, not long into working again, and at this point I had not overclocked again. The PC started just shutting down.
Event viewer would come up Kernel error 41.
The things I've tried so far;
I used DDU to clear the GPU drivers and update them.
I reset the BIOS again.
I updated the BIOS.
I re-installed my sound driver.
I re-seated the RAM
I've tried different RAM
I re-seated the GPU
I tried underclocking the GPU and trying suggested Wattman profiles for the nitro+
All fans appear to run OK.
There doesn't appear to be any visible damage on the motherboard or bulging capacitors.
I've left it idling for 24 hours with no crashing. Although, it has sometimes crashed again shortly after 1 crash.
I have tried testing with Prime95, memtest86 and OCCT, every test usually crashes, but there doesn't seem to be any consistency about how long it will last.
I have HWInfo but temperatures don't seem to be excessive. Generally around 55-60 for the CPU and ~72 for the GPU at max load. I can't tell if its spiking before a crash as the data doesn't get a chance to be logged.
My problem now lies in the fact I don't have spares to switch out the items. Is there anything else I could try do to figure out if its the PSU or the motherboard that has failed?
or maybe it hasn't failed and there is something else I can do?
Thank you heaps for all your help.
I've finally hit a wall with my PC and need to make difficult financial decisions
In short, I have an oldish system that I overclocked and was running rock steady. I recently moved and now have had constant issues.
Intel i5-3770k 3.5GHz (was overclocked to 4.3)
cryorig H7 air cooler
gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H motherboard
Radeon RX580 Nitro+ sapphire 8GB
Corsair RM650i PSU
2x Kingstons HyperX RAM 8GB
So the story goes. After moving I set up the system and pressed power. It gave a continous short beep error and would then attempt to restart, rinse and repeat.
Ultimately, I took everything out of the case, breadboarded it and gradually added devices back. I also took out the CMOS battery and reset the BIOS (using the pins). I also reapplied thermal paste to my CPU and put in some rubber stands for the motherboard.
This seemed to work.
Except, not long into working again, and at this point I had not overclocked again. The PC started just shutting down.
Event viewer would come up Kernel error 41.
The things I've tried so far;
I used DDU to clear the GPU drivers and update them.
I reset the BIOS again.
I updated the BIOS.
I re-installed my sound driver.
I re-seated the RAM
I've tried different RAM
I re-seated the GPU
I tried underclocking the GPU and trying suggested Wattman profiles for the nitro+
All fans appear to run OK.
There doesn't appear to be any visible damage on the motherboard or bulging capacitors.
I've left it idling for 24 hours with no crashing. Although, it has sometimes crashed again shortly after 1 crash.
I have tried testing with Prime95, memtest86 and OCCT, every test usually crashes, but there doesn't seem to be any consistency about how long it will last.
I have HWInfo but temperatures don't seem to be excessive. Generally around 55-60 for the CPU and ~72 for the GPU at max load. I can't tell if its spiking before a crash as the data doesn't get a chance to be logged.
My problem now lies in the fact I don't have spares to switch out the items. Is there anything else I could try do to figure out if its the PSU or the motherboard that has failed?
or maybe it hasn't failed and there is something else I can do?
Thank you heaps for all your help.