Everything is new. Fresh OS install, latest drivers.
Played Mirror's Edge for a couple of hours - no issues. Granted, it's not the most demanding of games, but when YouTube crashes and a 3D game does not, that's annoying. What's even more annoying is that I had the same YouTube crashing on my ancient PC, and they have nothing in common.
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Go to BIOS menu, and just load default setting,then save and exit BIOS.By doing that, you are allowing mother board to choose the safest settings for you hardware. By that setting, you will not encounter low voltage issue. Then you can restart your pc and do some stress test. I use Prime 95 to test CPU, AIDA 64 to test GPU and RAM. Also, you need Real Temp, cpu-z, gpu-z to monitor the cpu voltage, temperature and gpu temperature and fan speed as well. For 24-7 stable use. run Prime 95 for as least 6 hours,but if you really want to make sure, run it over 10 hours continuously. If your pc pass that test without freeze or BSOD, it is good to go.
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The only thing I changed from the initial defaults was bumping the memory up to its rated speed/voltage instead of the default. I think that might have stopped the freezing. It's also possible that the freezing was related to trying to install some Windows 7 drivers for my old wireless. Who knows.
Temperatures and voltages are fine, memtest86 and OCCT ran fine for a couple of hours each. Didn't see the point in letting them run longer; in my experience so far, they fail in the first 10-20 minutes max if something's unstable.
I can't figure out (and Google isn't helping me) why the ATI kernel mode driver crashed on YouTube...
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Memory sometimes does cause problem. For example, 2 days ago, I tried to increase the frequency and timing or my ram to 10-10-10-27 1866MHz which default is 9-9-9-24 1600MHz. If I don't increase the voltage on cpu and cache. Overclocking on ram will fail after using for random time, sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes 1 or 2 hours. It is just unstable. So I suggest that using default first. For a new pc, just let it run normally for 3 days or a week before you overclock hardware. BTW, overclocking ram does not help a lot. In real world use,ram at 1866MHz works just as same as it at 1600MHz, and overclocking cpu will do nothing in gaming, however, it could reduce 3D and video render time but just barely a difference. So overclocking doesn't have many benefits unless you want to achieve higher score in testing. And for dirver crashes, I think it could be something wrong with plugin used in web video player then it causes driver crash. Not so sure but hope this could help you.
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No overclocking. The memory is rated at 1866 CL9 1.65V, and it was running at 1333 CL9 1.5V - maybe it didn't like 1.5V all that much, considering that the other XMP profile is 1600 CL9 1.65V. I really have no idea. Like I said, it might have been the driver for my old wireless, as I tried installing the Windows 7 version and it didn't work (then I remembered my new motherboard came with a wireless adapter, ha ha).
Maybe it's just Chrome. I never liked that browser, but since I do different things in different browsers, Chrome is for YouTube and SteamGifts...
Any ideas about good vibration dampening material? The vibration noise is bothering me a lot. Sponge isn't helping.
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Set everything to standard/default, then load the XMP settings and nothing else. Check your temps in windows when running games. Check if there is hardware not installed correctly in device manager and use latest drivers for all the things.
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About 15 minutes ago, the computer froze again. I was typing an email. Pressed the reset button, nothing happened. After about half a minute, there was a reset, but I don't know if that was related to the button.
God damn it. Why can't things just work?
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I found that, but guess what - I'm at 6.0.1.7023 and the command line switch doesn't help :/
I don't have time now, but in the evening I'll install Canary 31 and see what happens there.
Chrome is probably the only software in the world which FREEZES A COMPUTER.
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New update: it's not Chrome. I mean, it is, since I'm basically guaranteed a freeze with Chrome, but it's also not, because I had a couple of freezes without it.
I have some drivers to update (very slight version updates). If that doesn't help... What should I do? Any ideas?
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And I don't trust it :/
It froze several times (might have been memory voltage set too low), and then Windows Update completely hosed it to the point of system restore not helping (which again reiterated my notion of updates being pure evil and extremely harmful).
It seems okay now - memtest86 went fine, OCCT torture went fine, no freezing today... But I don't trust it. I basically don't want to run anything on it except a couple of browsers, lest it freeze again. I wish it were BSOD-ing, because then I'd know what the problem was...
Any ideas what else I could do to try and see if it'll freeze again, in controlled conditions? How long do you think I should wait until I declare the computer "suitable for consumption"?
Also, I have decoupled the drive cage to minimize vibration noise (there were even some standing waves), but it's still not good enough. The cage is resting on some sponge. Can you think of any readily-available material that would absorb vibrations better?
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