Unknown Issue (4 months long) Freezes

Is this your board? If that component is chipped you should contact ASUS...they will probably say it's your fault. Also try the seller.

Yeah that's the one. I'm glad there's some progress as of the last 2 days. I won't worry so much since I made logs since day of purchase until now. Also finally managed to get beeps from the mobo. 1 long 3 short. Will try slotting in another 7970 dcu2t in place of the current and redo psu connections.

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one ram at a time did not force a bsod so now i've started on using 2 at a time. much testing done and i've seperated 2 pieces that doesn't work well together. here are what they created when they are installed and paired in ch a1 and ch d1. comp is much smoother now albeit the need to reformat as soon as this is settled to clear out everything else and start fresh fully functional and hopefully even smoother.

MANAGED TO GET BSOD! .... can't believe i'm saying this but WOOOHOOOmdmp.rar
*attached*

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Well that was shortlived. Crashed in game but fine otherwise.

Intel Rapid Storage Technology Filter driver

Code:

fffff880`09bde788  fffff880`01dc5327Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\iaStorF.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for iaStorF.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for iaStorF.sys
 iaStorF+0x1327

Not very old, still failing ;/

Code:

lmvm iastorf
start             end                 module name
fffff880`01dc4000 fffff880`01dcd000   iaStorF  T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: iaStorF.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\iaStorF.sys
    Image name: iaStorF.sys
    Timestamp:        Tue Aug 07 21:12:20 2012 (5021375C)
    CheckSum:         000106CE
    ImageSize:        00009000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

I's suggest you to get rid of Rapid storage, and use msahci . How, that will be better guided by Britton30 :)

Signs of driver failing or hardware failing?

Gotten rid of it :) I'm considering doing a complete wipe. Would that be a good way to troubleshoot?


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oh boy. took the whole day to reconfigure everything. removed mobo and the loads and redid wiring too. I found one of the mount / grounding copper-ish golden screws (can't recall what they are called >.<) didn't connect to any screw holes on the mobo so instead of 9 points of contact i had 10 one of which wasn't supposed to be there.

*here's to hoping for results* cheers.

One of the holes in the motherboard could be a guide pin hole. If so make sure the pin is in the hole or it could hit the motherboard and cause problems such as; miss alignment of the I/O panel, short to ground, and twisting of the motherboard.

Your fixed is good news. Happy computing.