GA-770T-USB3 Freezing, BSOD, Random restarting

[Christoph]

one thing I always noticed about the boot (with different motherboards) is that;


when I turn the button at the PSU and try to turn on the machine right away, sometimes it does not boot, I get a blank screen and if it boots and makes it al the way to windows and I try to reboot it may not boot this time


so, what I always do (like I said, tried with different motherboards) is turn the button at the PSU and let the PSU get ready to work for a few seconds like 15 seconds or so and then turn the machine, and this way always boot just good

for the motherboard I have right now that is a Gigabyte GA890FXA-UD5, it seems it happens the same way (don't know really cuz haven't try); when I turn the PSU button on, I can hear like static noise coming out from my headset (I have them connected all the time, mostly) just I few seconds after I turn the button on


so, this may be the issue over here

[Dark Mantis]

From the sopunds of it Christoph it is your PSU that is faulty. I can understand a very slight delay of maybe a second or two for the circuit to initialise but it shouldn't take anything like 15 seconds.

[Christoph]

I tried with a couple different PSU

to add some more info to this, OCZ PSU users had this issue before, they sent emails to technical support where they said that the PSU require just milliseconds more time than other brands, which could cause that

it was like the motherboard booting faster than the psu giving the require power at that moment...


like I said, I never get BOSD or freezes or whatever, but I noticed that before, when I turn the psu switch on I can hear noise coming from my headset just like 3 seconds after and the noise is just for 1 second or so, the noise is like fading in until it gets like full power


again, this means nothing or maybe it is something, is just to keep the tip in mind


is more like, hmmm  do you have leds on the motherboard??

have you notice when you turn the switch off at the back of the psu and those leds still are light up?? until the power completely drain??

is more like this but the other way around, and just filling up with power...


and again, I notices that if I turn the computer switch right after the switch of the psu, I got an no boot/blank screen  or even a motherboard post way longer

so, I don't know I just throw  this "tip" or whatever

but don't mind me...

[Dark Mantis]

have you notice when you turn the switch off at the back of the psu and those leds still are light up?? until the power completely drain??

is more like this but the other way around, and just filling up with power...

and again, I notices that if I turn the computer switch right after the switch of the psu, I got an no boot/blank screen  or even a motherboard post way longer

That is exactly what I was meaning but it should only take milliseconds or even maybe a second but a very smal amount of time to charge the mains capacitors up. It definitley sounds like a problematic PSU. Have you tried a different make?

[Christoph]

yeah, is the same


but this is not a problem, I always wait a few seconds after I turn the witch on and before I turn on the computer

so this has never happen again


oh but actually I had this "issue" with my last motherboard, and never had that symptom back with this motherboard and same PSU

[biggyk]

Update:

So I was still having problems so I decided to back my stuff up and format/reinstall win7. Took 2 attempts, first time it bsod during installation while expanding files and 2nd time was fine. But I am still crashing. I changed my ram to 1333   9-9-9-27 but it didn't help at all. Now im completely lost. Might save and take it in.

[Christoph]

ok back to the topic


did you ever added voltage to the CPU-NB??

try with 1.20/1.22 since default is 1.17v


now, did you ever touch those settings on the msconfig/boot/advanced options???

[biggyk]

Gskill told me to raise to 1.5 with 1600 and just 8-8-8-24 with 1333. So I never bothered trying while at 1333. Never touched the  msconfig/boot/advanced options.


Sorry which one exactly do I change? Never messed with this stuff before. Pls excuse the camera focus not working.

[Dark Mantis]

CPU/NB VID Control

[biggyk]

Doesnt look like 1.17 is the norm. Just wanna double check with you guys first before I start messing with it.

[Dark Mantis]

What you have highlighted there isn't normal it is nominal and from there you can go up or down in value. So you can go 0.025 above nominal or more or less.

[biggyk]

So i should just keep going up till i find a good spot?    I just wanted to make sure I dont go to high and cause a whole other problem

Weird it crashes while idle at desktop/

[Dark Mantis]

I am not sure of what are the safe limits on the AMD systems so you will have to wait for one of the AMD chaps to help you there.

[biggyk]

Okay well I raised the voltage to 1.20, and well see how that turns out. Is this somewhat of a common thing for pcs that are completely stock to have to change voltages like that?

[absic]

Is this somewhat of a common thing for pcs that are completely stock to have to change voltages like that?

I have to say no to this question. I have built many AMD machines using Gigabyte motherboards and have never encountered any of these issues and they are all running at default settings except where I have been asked to tweak them for O/C'ing.

My own system which is currently running the GA-890FXA-UD5 (rev2.1) with Phenom ii 1090T and 8 Gig of RAM 4X2Gig sticks has a modest O/C on the CPU (up by .6 from 3.2 to 3.8GHz) is running with all of the voltages at default settings. I have downclocked my RAM from the rated speed of 1666MHZ to 1333MHz and this automatically brought the voltage down from 1.64V to 1.5V but I have not had any issues with this at all.

I have not had to alter any of the voltages to get the system to run stably except for when I pushed my CPU above 3.8GHz. Then, all I altered was the CPU's Voltage, everything else was left at default. It did cause problems when I went above 4.2GHz and I did have to start increasing other voltages and timings but, 4.2GHz is 1GHz above stock so, I expected to encounter such issues .