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After numerous RMAs, PC just won't work

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tuffluck

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2500k
Ud3h
G.skill 8gb RAM
Radeon 7850
Ocz ssd
Ocz 700w modular psu

Built 4/2012, no problems whatsoever until 6/18. Started getting random crashes with a light oc...4ghz. Shut the oc down and still had random blank screens with no bsod. No oc since.

Bad Ram tested, rma #1.

Got the ram back, ran fine for one day. Then got same lock ups followed by an eventual no-post. Boot loop, over and over and over, wouldn't even shut down until I unplugged it. Tried reseating cmos, nothing. Tried one stick of ram, no ssd, different psu, different vid card. Nothing.

Rma #2.

Board came back 3 weeks later, said tested and had boot loop and bios was updated and tested fine. 12 hours later, familiar lock ups, then familiar boot loop.

Rma #3.

Board tested faulty again, gigabyte sent a new board altogether that tested fine. 3 weeks later and I get my new board today. Built the pc and about 3 hours later, familiar reboots but haven't gotten the boot loop YET. tho obviously, something is wrong.

I don't know what is going on. Is it possible I have a bad cpu or psu or something else and they are causing these other components to fail? Does gigabyte keep sending me crap parts? Any tests I can run (before the pc becomes unusable again)? I've got a spare everything and tried all of them with this cpu/mobo combo with the same problems.

This is ridiculously frustrating, had I known in may when I bought my parts that the pc wouldn't be working until august+, I would have waited to build the damn thing with more updated parts.

Sorry for the typing. Phone's predictive texts hate computer lingo.
 
My first board was a UD4, piece of trash (boot loop after 1 month right as recall was taking place). No problems with Asus, but others have I'm sure.

Just bad luck, sorry for yours.
 
I bet its the UD3H thats the issue. I believe they have a newer revision of the board without the space on the DIMM slots and different color caps.
 
Interesting. I have a D3H that will go through a reboot cycle every once in a while. When it does, I just leave it alone and after a few attempts it boots normally. Though I've never had any stability issues with it. Once it actually starts loading windows its been solid. It's also paired with a 2500k. But yeah, my guess would be the board.
 
I blame the OCD SSD...

...since all other changes had no effect at all and they are know not to be very reliable.
 
tuffluck said:
2500k
Ud3h
G.skill 8gb RAM
Radeon 7850
Ocz ssd
Ocz 700w modular psu

Built 4/2012, no problems whatsoever until 6/18. Started getting random crashes with a light oc...4ghz. Shut the oc down and still had random blank screens with no bsod. No oc since.

Bad Ram tested, rma #1.

Got the ram back, ran fine for one day. Then got same lock ups followed by an eventual no-post. Boot loop, over and over and over, wouldn't even shut down until I unplugged it. Tried reseating cmos, nothing. Tried one stick of ram, no ssd, different psu, different vid card. Nothing.

Rma #2.

Board came back 3 weeks later, said tested and had boot loop and bios was updated and tested fine. 12 hours later, familiar lock ups, then familiar boot loop.

Rma #3.

Board tested faulty again, gigabyte sent a new board altogether that tested fine. 3 weeks later and I get my new board today. Built the pc and about 3 hours later, familiar reboots but haven't gotten the boot loop YET. tho obviously, something is wrong.

I don't know what is going on. Is it possible I have a bad cpu or psu or something else and they are causing these other components to fail? Does gigabyte keep sending me crap parts? Any tests I can run (before the pc becomes unusable again)? I've got a spare everything and tried all of them with this cpu/mobo combo with the same problems.

This is ridiculously frustrating, had I known in may when I bought my parts that the pc wouldn't be working until august+, I would have waited to build the damn thing with more updated parts.

Sorry for the typing. Phone's predictive texts hate computer lingo.
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if you dont want your computer to fry out, dont freakin overclock it
 
beginner99 said:
I blame the OCD SSD...

...since all other changes had no effect at all and they are know not to be very reliable.
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This is my thought after recently building a computer and also replacing a laptop drive with a pair of cheap OCZ Agility 3s. The desktop would constantly freeze up during file transfers and windows updates... And the laptop wouldn't boot half the time, saying there was no boot device. The BIOS would fail to recognize that it was there half the time. I replaced it with a Corsair Force 3 and it works great.

There's something wrong with OCZ drives. They had a firmware issue that is supposed to correct mobos not recognizing them. But the update didn't fix the problem for me...
 
cebalrai said:
This is my thought after recently building a computer and also replacing a laptop drive with a pair of cheap OCZ Agility 3s. The desktop would constantly freeze up during file transfers and windows updates... And the laptop wouldn't boot half the time, saying there was no boot device. The BIOS would fail to recognize that it was there half the time. I replaced it with a Corsair Force 3 and it works great.

There's something wrong with OCZ drives. They had a firmware issue that is supposed to correct mobos not recognizing them. But the update didn't fix the problem for me...
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Sounds like the 240GB Mushkin Chronos Deluxe that I put in my Netbook.
Had same/similar problems with it.

Now I cannot get it to detect in my desktop, no matter what I do.

It died during an NTFS full format.
 
ShintaiDK said:
Random black screens usually means the display driver stopped working.
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beginner99 said:
I blame the OCD SSD...

...since all other changes had no effect at all and they are know not to be very reliable.
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so can the video card and/or the ssd cause the mobo and RAM to both die? because remember, they have both died and the manufacturer has confirmed they were faulty on the RMA. so unless those two components can fry mobos and RAM, then it's not them (unless it's them in addition to something else).

i'm starting to think maybe my motherboard just does not like the components i have. i guess there is no real way to know.
 
try a difft mobo / update to latest bios. i have a ud3 and have had the boot loop issues once or twice, seems like the computer HATES when u hit the reset button.
 
2is said:
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't post.
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Beat me to it. 🙂

4ghz is such a slight OC on a SB-k that it shouldn't be causing these issues.

Sounds like bad luck with the MB, but you could have a squirrely PSU that might be providing issues. Did you test the PSU rails at all?
 
ExarKun333 said:
Beat me to it. 🙂

4ghz is such a slight OC on a SB-k that it shouldn't be causing these issues.

Sounds like bad luck with the MB, but you could have a squirrely PSU that might be providing issues. Did you test the PSU rails at all?
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How do I do that?
 
Just do a fresh install on a different SSD/HDD and see if the problems carry over. Do the install with nothing overclocked, even slightly.

Has your RAM tested out ok now on the motherboard?
 
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