Hello, for the past month my system has been experiencing an unusual amount of crashes (the norm should be zero.)
I built this system no more than two months ago and after taking off my 4ghz OC, I loaded the failsafe BIOS settings, including all of the power saving feature such as C1 speedstep. Soon after I began experiencing random BSOD crashes, freezes, one time my computer reboot after it got to post, my mouse wasn't acting correctly, etc. I ran chkdsk at least three times with all of the bad sector scans that took 6 hours every time. It never showed any problems.
The odd thing was when running chkdsk, a series of tonal sounds would become apparent. It would shift back and forth from a higher pitch to a lower pitch, like someone was playing a 8-bit synthesizer.
With the side of the case open, I tried to find where the noise was coming from. My PSU is mounted on the bottom of my case and when my ear was closest to it, I could hear the sound the clearest. However, I'm now thinking it may have been my GPU as I can hear its fan on full blast clearer next to the PSU than the card itself.
After doing some research, I found a post saying that disabling C1 removed the sound for the poster. I did the same along with disabling all other power saving features. Running another chkdsk resulted in silence and I've yet to hear the sound since (a good 10 days or so.)
I've also only had two crashes since then as well. One soon after disabling and another today.
I'm using an the original install of an OEM edition of Windows 7 Pro 64bit I purchased from Newegg.
Thanks for any and all help, I've attached the zip file containing the required information.
I built this system no more than two months ago and after taking off my 4ghz OC, I loaded the failsafe BIOS settings, including all of the power saving feature such as C1 speedstep. Soon after I began experiencing random BSOD crashes, freezes, one time my computer reboot after it got to post, my mouse wasn't acting correctly, etc. I ran chkdsk at least three times with all of the bad sector scans that took 6 hours every time. It never showed any problems.
The odd thing was when running chkdsk, a series of tonal sounds would become apparent. It would shift back and forth from a higher pitch to a lower pitch, like someone was playing a 8-bit synthesizer.
With the side of the case open, I tried to find where the noise was coming from. My PSU is mounted on the bottom of my case and when my ear was closest to it, I could hear the sound the clearest. However, I'm now thinking it may have been my GPU as I can hear its fan on full blast clearer next to the PSU than the card itself.
After doing some research, I found a post saying that disabling C1 removed the sound for the poster. I did the same along with disabling all other power saving features. Running another chkdsk resulted in silence and I've yet to hear the sound since (a good 10 days or so.)
I've also only had two crashes since then as well. One soon after disabling and another today.
I'm using an the original install of an OEM edition of Windows 7 Pro 64bit I purchased from Newegg.
Thanks for any and all help, I've attached the zip file containing the required information.
My Computer
- OS
- Windows 7 Pro 64bit
- CPU
- Core i7-930
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R rev.2.0
- Memory
- CORSAIR XMS3 DDR3 1333 8GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GTX470
- Hard Drives
- 2TB HITACHI
- PSU
- Corsair 850TX
- Case
- Antec 1200
- Cooling
- CM V8
