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Buggy used Evga Board BSOD's like crazy
Ok so maybe someone here can help me,,, I purchased an older used Evga 680i SLI Motherboard and Core duo cpu for more than its worth,,, Installed a known working set of OCZ Drr2 Pc2 6400 and a Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 512mb card,,, I had one of these board before so I know its a tuff board to configure,,, I must have something set wrong somewhere or the board is just screwed!
I could not get win7 to complete an install it kept crashing on me so I moved it into another PC and then sysprepped the drive but then,,,
Everytime I run a windows update and it asks me to reboot it crashes on me to a blue screen that goes to fast for me to read,, Then on boot up it wont detect my OCZ Agility SSD drive unless I hit the reset button twice then it finally lets me get back into windows. I gave up yesterday because I spent 6+hrs messing with I Sys-prepped my SSD drive again dragged it over to another PC ran all updates and got windows exactly how I wanted it and then transferred it back to the EVGA board and all was good for about 30 mins then everything froze and all my icons went away and the shutting down screen came up for a quick splash then bam!! BSOD again! then it took another hour to get back to my desktop again because it kept either not finding the ide drives (even though its ssd I have it running in IDE mode since its a single drive) or it would get to the loading screen and freeze,,, so finally I got back to the desktop,, then I said ok what do I need to do next to make this thing useable,, I couldn't think of anything except I hadn't installed an anti virus on it yet,,, before i moved the mouse to click IE BSOD Hard!
So I took all the heat tubes and heat sinks off the board and scraped and cleaned and re-themal pasted everything on the board!! figuring maybe its an issue with heat,,,, great idea!! worked for about 3hrs got my A/V downloaded and a couple new updates that came through and reboots worked and all was well! Shut it down and went to bed, next day every start up gave me about 5 mins of use till bsod bsod bsod!! or that funky disappearing of the desktop and the shut down screen showing up then bsod!!
I gave up again, left it sit a day and then powered it up today and working great for the last 2hrs then bamn bsod,, did a reboot that went well got me right back on and now its been working again for 20-30mins no problem!!
if I open the event logs its only showing me 2 critical errors one for boot up yesterday and one for shut down yesterday (attaching image for shutdown error).
So any thoughts or ideas what the problem might be? sorry so long but I wanted to be through, what if any more info would one need to help determine the problem??
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