Troubleshooting Windows 7

[b0redom]

Hi All,
I'm hoping for a bit of help with Windows 7 troubleshooting. I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my rig. I didn't bother with any extra drivers, as it seemed to detect everything fine out of the box.

I updated using Windows update, and it pulled down a couple of updates plus an updated nVidia graphics driver and an updated driver for my onboard NIC. I've since rolled back the NIC driver and I still have the problem. I have also updated to the latest stable nVidia driver.

I played Crysis warhead on it for around 3 hours and left it. When I came back it had gone to sleep and wouldn't wake up. Maybe a problem with sleeping I guessed, so I restarted and started Crysis again. I managed about 5 minutes before it hung.

As it's not BSODing, just hanging, I have no idea where to start looking. The system seemed stable enough under Vista. It is not overclocked in any way.

Hardware is:

Asus Formula Rampage
E8400
8GB Corsair CM2X2048-8500C5D RAM
nVidia GTX280

Any ideas?

[Phage]

Did you get the drivers from ASUS and nVidia for the GPU and NIC ?
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

The not waking up issue does appear to be relatively common. Both I and Watercooled have it as well, and have posted in the Antec support forums here. I have diabled the sleep/hibernate functions altogether. Do you get the hanging in any other apps other than games ?

[b0redom]

Hmm, looks like a worse problem that I thought. I booted into MemTest86 and 3 of my 4 RAM sticks have caused a fail (I've not bothered trying with the 4th yet).

I reflashed the BIOS to ensure that it was running at the latest level and increased the RAM voltage to 2.1 as suggested by Corsair, rather than setting it on Auto, and loosened the timings to 5-5-5-18 as I found that suggested on another forum.

On the mobo, the LED marked DDR_CRAZY is lit. I can't find any other mention of this in the manual though. I presume it refers to the voltage?

I'm beginning to think the mobo has gone bad. Any other ideas?

[b0redom]

Very weird things are afoot. I swapped out my GTX280 for a 8400GS I had lying around from an OpenSolaris build, and the DDR_CRAZY light swapped back to DDR_NORMAL. I then swapped the GTX280 back in, the DDR_NORMAL light stayed on, and it now seems to be crunching it's way through MemTest86 fine.

[speardane]

yep W7-64Pro seems to sleep for a short period without problem but overnight, there's a 50:50 chance I can't get the video card / monitor to re-awaken;

although the keyboard appears functional and sound certainly is (I can hear incoming tweets)
I wondered if this was because I had setup it up without a swap file (12GB and an SSD), but curious it sounds commonplace...

anything similar in your setup?