Today while playing video games my the framerates suddenly dropped significantly.
I suspected that the issue was with my GPU / CPU Overclock.
Restarted my Computer and the same issue persisted.
I cleared the CMOS thus resetting the bios to default.
That didn't solve the issue.
I removed my hard drive only leaving the SSD and removed some fans to decrease power consumption (I was thinking it could be my PSU)
I ran memtest86 and it completed with no errors.
I then checked the task manager and saw a process called "System Interrupts" was hogging 25-30% of my CPU usage.
Did some bechmarks and my passmark was down to 1400 from original 2600...
I tried to use Windows monitoring tools to see if a driver was causing this issue but couldn't point out a driver.
Even the Windows event logs don't have anything odd in them.
I decided to do a clean reinstall of Windows 8.1.
The issue still exists and I'm getting desperate here.
Here is a screenshot from the task manager:
http://i.imgur.com/hxPU3SJ.jpg
I'm running an FX-4100 CPU which I have overclocked to 4.4GHz and cooling it with a custom built water cooling loop.
My GPU is MSI GTX 750 TI Twin Frozr
My motherboard is a ASUS M5A99X EVO
2 x 4GB Kingston HyperX Genesis ram running at 1600Mhz
I have a Kingston SSD 128gb + 1TB Seagate hard drive.
My PSU is a Corsair CX600M
EDIT:
I ran memtest again did 5 passes with no errors so it's not the ram.
Here is a screenshot of HWmonitor
http://i.imgur.com/7pnMHzk.png
What is weird is that the 12 volts from my psu only showing up as 11.90 sometimes it went low as 11.75.
Could it be a faulty psu?
EDIT 2:
I just ran Windows Checkdisk and performed a clean boot.
Things got even crazier... The CPU usage is now at almost 100% all the time and the system is barely usable.
Here is a screenshot of the task manager.
http://i.imgur.com/FgNTR8f.png
EDIT 3:
Had some further issues.
Motherboard boot device led was red and stuck on bios logo.
Tested with another power supply.
The motherboard must be broken.
I need some input people!
I suspected that the issue was with my GPU / CPU Overclock.
Restarted my Computer and the same issue persisted.
I cleared the CMOS thus resetting the bios to default.
That didn't solve the issue.
I removed my hard drive only leaving the SSD and removed some fans to decrease power consumption (I was thinking it could be my PSU)
I ran memtest86 and it completed with no errors.
I then checked the task manager and saw a process called "System Interrupts" was hogging 25-30% of my CPU usage.
Did some bechmarks and my passmark was down to 1400 from original 2600...
I tried to use Windows monitoring tools to see if a driver was causing this issue but couldn't point out a driver.
Even the Windows event logs don't have anything odd in them.
I decided to do a clean reinstall of Windows 8.1.
The issue still exists and I'm getting desperate here.
Here is a screenshot from the task manager:
http://i.imgur.com/hxPU3SJ.jpg
I'm running an FX-4100 CPU which I have overclocked to 4.4GHz and cooling it with a custom built water cooling loop.
My GPU is MSI GTX 750 TI Twin Frozr
My motherboard is a ASUS M5A99X EVO
2 x 4GB Kingston HyperX Genesis ram running at 1600Mhz
I have a Kingston SSD 128gb + 1TB Seagate hard drive.
My PSU is a Corsair CX600M
EDIT:
I ran memtest again did 5 passes with no errors so it's not the ram.
Here is a screenshot of HWmonitor
http://i.imgur.com/7pnMHzk.png
What is weird is that the 12 volts from my psu only showing up as 11.90 sometimes it went low as 11.75.
Could it be a faulty psu?
EDIT 2:
I just ran Windows Checkdisk and performed a clean boot.
Things got even crazier... The CPU usage is now at almost 100% all the time and the system is barely usable.
Here is a screenshot of the task manager.
http://i.imgur.com/FgNTR8f.png
EDIT 3:
Had some further issues.
Motherboard boot device led was red and stuck on bios logo.
Tested with another power supply.
The motherboard must be broken.
I need some input people!