G1 Sniper x58 HDD Controller failing?

[Pinola]

I think there may be a problem with my motherbaord is only about 4 months old but i'm not sure how to test it or if I should RMA it.

its a G1 Sniper x58 the last 2  weeks I have been geting ramdom BSOD (stop: 0x0000007A) and others, first i thought it was one of my 6 HDDs so I did tests all seem fine. then after the last BSOD i reset and it showed my drivers in the bios but they saw said read disk fail push Ctrl - Alt - Del to restart so i did same again.

Then i turned off the pc for 2 - 3 mins restared and it loaded windows and crashed. I left it and unpluged all my other HDDs and booted into windows fine.

The drive im using is a intel x25-M SSD I have tested the drive with the intel tool box and it says everything is 100% it had crashed with just this drive but no so often the bios always sees the drive.

Im thinking it could be the mobo but as the fault only happens now and again will this be picked up if i RMA the board or will they just say its fine.

It could be the HDD but it's no showing up on intel toolbox  (Full diagnostic scan) and no errors when running chkdsk ether

I have tested the memory with memtest for over 4 hours with no faults


is there anything else I should do the test the board?

Thanks for your help

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome.

It would help if you could list your hardware so we have something to go on.

It could be many things but I would suggest running sfc /scannow and chkdsk /r not missing out the spaces. At least it will be a start.

[Pinola]

Operating System
   MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
   Intel Core i7 930  @ 2.80GHz   44 °C
   Bloomfield 45nm Technology
RAM
   6.00 GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (8-8-8-20)
Motherboard
   Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. G1.Sniper (Socket 1366)   40 °C
Graphics
   SyncMaster (1920x1200@60Hz)
   SyncMaster (1920x1200@60Hz)
   SyncMaster (1920x1200@60Hz)
   ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner)   49 °C
   ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner)   39 °C
   CrossFire Disabled
Hard Drives
   156GB INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC (SATA-SSD)
Optical Drives
   Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S ATA Device
   ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
   Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM)



both scan came back with no errors

[Dark Mantis]

Thanks for the list but you forgot one of the most important things, the power supply unit. Also how old is it ?

[Pinola]

oh its an xfx psu 850w about 2 years max

[Dark Mantis]

So basically you have an 850W PSU that's two years old and it's running a couple of radeon 5870s, a i7 930, an SSD and a couple of optical drives.

What cooling have you got on the CPU ?

Also what is the case and how many fans have you got in there ?

[Pinola]

I have a Coolit Eco ALC (sealed water cooler) 1 optical drive 1ssd hdd 5sata hdd all in a corsair 600D case with 2 250mm fans one at front one on top the cpu is not overclocked

[Dark Mantis]

I would first advise you to replace the cooler with a similar unit from Corsair something like the H60 or so. These coolers have a bad reputation for leaking and breaking. That's tha last thing you need in your system.

Hopefully the PSU is still kicking out enough wattage to run your system comfortably. If possible just check your readings when the system is loaded.  

Beyond that there is nothing that stands out as a likely problem cause. Try removing all but the memory stick in the first slot and run like that for na while. If no problem try swapping over the sticks and see if they all run ok.

Memtest86+ really needs to be run on single sticks and for about ten loops each!