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I've just built a new system and am experiencing a weird hard-freezing issue. The system will randomly lock up completely for no obvious reason (does so whilst idle or loaded).
With a GTX 460 card in, the display goes completely blank and the monitor goes into standby. When I press reset, the motherboard sounds the "no VGA" beeps. Normally it comes back after a cold reboot, but on one occassion I had to leave it an hour or so before it would come back. When I tried with a friend's GT 260 and an ancient 8600, the freezes still occur, but the screen remains on, so that rules out the graphics card. The system comes back fine with that card in after pressing reset.
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 (B3 revision)
CPU: Intel i7-2600
RAM: G.Skill RipJawsX 2x4GB 1600MHz (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL - it's not listed in Asus' s QVL, but you state it's compatible)
Tried it with each RAM stick removed to no avail. memtest86+ and Windows Memory Diagnostic both came up clear, though it'd be very odd if both RAM sticks developed the exact same fault at the same time. There's nothing in Event Viewer, nor does swapping the PSU make any difference. I don't have another CPU to test, though, but CPUs normally don't break like that, do they?
The problem occurs if I run XP or Windows 7, but doesn't occur when I tried Linux (although I got messages stating "irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)", which there doesn't seem to be any documentation about).
To be honest, I'm completely stumped. Should I try a different brand of RAM? How likely is it that it's actually a motherboard or CPU problem?
With a GTX 460 card in, the display goes completely blank and the monitor goes into standby. When I press reset, the motherboard sounds the "no VGA" beeps. Normally it comes back after a cold reboot, but on one occassion I had to leave it an hour or so before it would come back. When I tried with a friend's GT 260 and an ancient 8600, the freezes still occur, but the screen remains on, so that rules out the graphics card. The system comes back fine with that card in after pressing reset.
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 (B3 revision)
CPU: Intel i7-2600
RAM: G.Skill RipJawsX 2x4GB 1600MHz (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL - it's not listed in Asus' s QVL, but you state it's compatible)
Tried it with each RAM stick removed to no avail. memtest86+ and Windows Memory Diagnostic both came up clear, though it'd be very odd if both RAM sticks developed the exact same fault at the same time. There's nothing in Event Viewer, nor does swapping the PSU make any difference. I don't have another CPU to test, though, but CPUs normally don't break like that, do they?
The problem occurs if I run XP or Windows 7, but doesn't occur when I tried Linux (although I got messages stating "irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)", which there doesn't seem to be any documentation about).
To be honest, I'm completely stumped. Should I try a different brand of RAM? How likely is it that it's actually a motherboard or CPU problem?
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