I am losing my mind!

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  1. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #21

    Excuse my ignorance of abbreviations, do you mean just call them and send it in basically?
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  2. Posts : 8,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Arch Linux
       #22

    Luddite42 said:
    Excuse my ignorance of abbreviations, do you mean just call them and send it in basically?
    Yes if the mobo is still under warranty
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  3. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #23

    Ok, will do I guess. I appreciate the prompt replies. +1 rep for you good sir, and I like your title of "BSOD Hunter"
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  4. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
       #24

    Edited version of the OP's post....

    Luddite42 said:
    The stupid thing just resbots itself at total random. It may work fine for a few hours, maybe even a day or two, then bam it rebots itself. Once this happens, it will start happening progressively more frequently until the thing is not useable at all for more than a minute or two. There is no rhyme or reason to what the computer is doing when this happens. Sometimes you can play STALKER call of pripyat at about max settings with the card and or processor overclocked and it will run super for six hours. Then other times it will reboot while surfing the net or just idle on the desktop doing nothing at all. It seems to work better during the day than at night, and after a series of reboots it seems to perform better if I just leave it off and go to sleep, then when I wake up it will work again for a few hours.

    I have reinstalled Windows three times (and made sure to update from the beta version of the OS I was using to a more legit version). Each time before doing this I used a KillDisk utility from Hiren's Bootkit to write zeroes to the hard drive.

    I have taken it to a computer repair store 3 times and they never seem to reproduce the problem, they were able to run furmark and prime 95 for one whole continuos day with no interruptions and I have the logfiles to prove it.

    I thought I had fixed it when I replaced the original 750 watt Cooler Master PSU when I discovered that a small screw had fallen into it, which I thought was causing the PC to randomly short circuit some how. Now I use the 1000 watt PSU as described above. It worked flawlessly for a day and a half before resuming its reboot problem.

    Sometimes it works ok when I boot in Safe mode with networking, other times it doesn't. Same goes when I boot through the Linux based ASUS express gate thing that came with the mobo.

    It used to go to a blue screen when this would happen, the code usually being 7E, 1A, or 3B. Now it either no longer has a BSOD error, or just flies right by the screen so fast you can't see it, I'm not sure.
    Sounds like he has overclock/hardware issues. Those stop codes indicate hardware/software failures, however since the OP admits he's overclocking, I’d start there by running the system at default settings and going from there.

    No matter what anyone says, you can't properly diagnose without setting the system back to its non-overclocked condition..... meaning no overclocks.

    Luddite42 said:
    I see two options. Find a priest to perform an exorcism on my PC, or break it up into parts and sell it (assuming none of you can help me.)
    Or you could just drop the overclocks till you figure out what the problem is.

    My two cents
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  5. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #25

    Those operating temperatures are absolutely normal. Can you confirm that the GFX card is no longer ober-clocked?
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  6. Posts : 525
    windows 7 ultimate 64bit
       #26

    did you try updating the BIOS?

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  7. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #27

    Well, as soon as I'm done playing a game I always go into the ATI catalyst utility and disable overclocking and manual fan control. I will for a little while see what happens if I just don't overclock at all even for playing games. But yes as of right now all overclocking features are disabled. I went through the process to update the BIOS but during the boot sequence when it brings up what BIOS version is being used there was no chnage from the original so I'm unsure if the changes took effect or if I was already using the newest BIOS.
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  8. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #28

    OK. Try running it for a few days without over-clocking and see if that does the trick.

    Just out of interest what games are you playing that you feel the need to over-clock the card?
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  9. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #29

    Luddite : how is your system holding up now?
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