Curse

malevolence · Apr 18, 2010, 05:08 PM // 17:08

Ok, my system is rock-solid stable now , no crashes

As when the computer crashed , I can hear the sound looping or something (like the video I posted in youtube) so I though to install an old xfi xtreme pci-e card and disable the onboard (Realtek) audio.

That solved the issue.

I have no idea why the audio was doing that , strange, but at least , is solved now. Should I RMA the motherboard ?

Thank you.

Elder III · Apr 19, 2010, 01:56 AM // 01:56

hmm, I didn't remember any sound looping, that would indeed be a good indicator as to a potential problem. If your old sound card gives you good quality sound, then I would say to just keep it and not worry about any RMA process. Did you ever try updating or changing your sound card drivers? Might be worth a try if you want to mess with it anymore.

glad to hear it's running stable for you.

malevolence · Apr 19, 2010, 08:00 PM // 20:00

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Originally Posted by Elder III

hmm, I didn't remember any sound looping, that would indeed be a good indicator as to a potential problem. If your old sound card gives you good quality sound, then I would say to just keep it and not worry about any RMA process. Did you ever try updating or changing your sound card drivers? Might be worth a try if you want to mess with it anymore.

glad to hear it's running stable for you.

Yes is stable now

hehe

Yeah , I tried the drivers on the asus.com website , the card I have is giving good quality sound

(soundblaster x-fi xtreme pci-e) , for my taste , it provides better quality than the onboard realtek. Probably this was a driver issue.

Anyways , I will keep my system like this and avoid the rma process

Now, gaming time has come lol

malevolence · Apr 21, 2010, 10:08 AM // 10:08

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Originally Posted by malevolence

Yes is stable now

hehe

Yeah , I tried the drivers on the asus.com website , the card I have is giving good quality sound

(soundblaster x-fi xtreme pci-e) , for my taste , it provides better quality than the onboard realtek. Probably this was a driver issue.

Anyways , I will keep my system like this and avoid the rma process

Now, gaming time has come lol

Spoil of Victor !!

My PC crashed yesterday , same same old way. So now , I tried a new HDD and windows seven was giving issues again..... so formatted again the new HDD and installed vista ultimate 64 , it installed perfect , no issues so far.

Now I will test the rest of day to see if it crash. And if now gives a problem , there is only two things left: CPU or Mobo.

EDIT:: Notes about yesterday's crash:

It started when I turned on the PC , windows 7 failed to boot (it was stuck at windows 7 logo), after a restart windows gave the message that windows couldn't boot because it wasn't responding, and it may be because a change of hardware. So I booted into the O.S. and while playing AvP (like 15 minutes) it crashed , same way, mouse pointer artifacted , strange sound looping on the speakers and then no signal on the screen. Something I noticed , and it was really weird , I restarted the system and I went to intel.com to see if I could download a better chipset driver, but the support link was down and intel.com wasn't responding, so I clicked again the support link and this time (I could see Firefox's progress green bar on the bottom) it seems the link was loading so I was watching it when suddendly , my speaker made a strange noise , like an interference, like when it crash, so that was weird ! , I tried to find what was going on but there is nothing making interference , now I am wondering what does that means ? My speaker set is damaged ? can this be the cause of the weird crash ?

Elder III · Apr 21, 2010, 12:08 PM // 12:08

Has this been on and "altered" version of WIndows 7 every time it crashed?

malevolence · Apr 23, 2010, 07:41 AM // 07:41

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Originally Posted by Elder III

Has this been on and "altered" version of WIndows 7 every time it crashed?

Yes , but this version works perfect on other PCs , anyway , I got a new HDD and installed windows vista 64 ultimate.

Now it is stable again for about 2 days.... but you know , this can fall anytime.

What I am having every day , and thi sis becoming common now , is that windows doesn't boot on first power-on , it get stuck on the windows loading bar. After a restart I get the message that widnows were unable to start due to a recent hardware change

So again , I am getting that message , on every day, on every first power-on.

What does that means ?

PS: I was getting the same message with windows 7

malevolence · Apr 30, 2010, 09:17 AM // 09:17

after 10 days stable ,the PC just crashed . Same old way , so , only thing left to change is CPU and motherboard.

dang , now it crash less , but still , it's annoying.

**EDIT**

What I did so far:

-Changed HDD (installed a brand new HDD, same issue)
-Changed RAM (have 6 ram modules , it was tested before with the Corsair modules but still same issue with OCZ too)
-Changed OS from windows 7 64 (crashes were more frequent) to Vista 64 but still the PC is crashing.
-GPU was tested on other PC for 4 days without issues or crashes
-PSU was tested on other PC for 4 days without issues or crashes

What I need to change:

-Motherboard (didn't change it yet)
-CPU (didn't change it yet)

So far , the issue seems to be on the CPU or Motherboard, I will change them both to see if the issue persist.

malevolence · May 04, 2010, 04:54 PM // 16:54

Hello , just found this errors on the event logs

1- IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 0, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

2- Machine Check Event reported is a fatal Bus or Interconnect timeout error. (this is another error , not together with the previous one)

The IRQARB: ACPI BIOS I have a lot ! what does that means ?

Thank you

raresight · May 10, 2010, 03:54 PM // 15:54

I don't play guild wars, but I came across this thread while trying to troubleshoot my own computer problem.

I seem to have the exact same issue as you malevolence.
Memtest and Prime95 run fine but the first time I start my computer from a cold boot it will hang and will only get to windows once I reboot.

I'll also get BSoD right away on login or when I'm shutting the computer down. I've tested many different components, coming no closer to preventing the problems.

System Specs:

AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE (C3 Stepping)
G.Skill DDR1600 2 x 2GB 8-8-8-24
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
ATI HD 4890 1GB
Corsair HX650 Watt
Asus Xonar DS (sound card)

Drivers are the most up to date for all components.

Here's a couple of some of the BSoD errors:

Bad Pool Caller
Paged Error in Nonpaged Area

Elder III · May 10, 2010, 06:20 PM // 18:20

Have you guys checked into updating(flashing) the BIOS???

raresight · May 11, 2010, 08:01 PM // 20:01

I did update the BIOS and after some more testing I've determined it to be one of the following things through process of elimination:

RAM (tried various timings, even ones suggested by the manufacturer)
PSU (I don't have an extra one to swap in to test)
Driver Conflict or unstable driver
Windows Update

Just today I encountered two more BSoD, only after having it turned off all night. Now it is behaving normally, seems like the system has to get 'warmed up'