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I joked that I'm technologically cursed, but I think it might be true 
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To start off... here is my system:
Core i7 860 (no OC, Turbo and Speedstep enabled)
ASUS P7P55D-E Premium Motherboard
4x 2GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3 10666
2x Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
300GB Western Digital Velociraptor
The rest probably isn't a big deal. I just used NewEgg links for those if the basic description isn't enough.
Now... down to the meat and potatoes of the problem.
The first SSD is used for my OS. The second is used for my primary games, which right now consists of World of Warcraft and StarCraft II. I have Steam installed on the Velociraptor along with my Firefox cache and my pagefile. Well, the problem comes when I play either WoW or SC2, the game will simply randomly freeze up. With WoW, I can just open another instance (but not actually log in) and the game will come back. I cannot do this with SC2 though. I've had both games crash in the past with memory errors:
Here is one from 8/10:
Although it got stuck a lot, this is all the log reports:
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So I only have three culprits in my mind... memory, motherboard or SSD. The motherboard has been troublesome to me so far (mostly software-wise), but I'm not really sold that this is a great suspect. The memory... well, it's been tested and didn't show any errors. I did adjust the memory voltage from 1.55V in the BIOS to 1.50V, which is the spec listed on the manufacturer's site. This did not seem to make a difference.
So, the only suspect left is the SSD, which nothing is perfect. My piece of evidence that points to the SSD is actually Steam. According to Steam, I've played Borderlands for 83.8 hours so far and I'm fairly certain that the game has never crashed or hung up. So if it were a problem with the memory, shouldn't it (most likely) have occurred with this game as well? Both drives are on the same SATA controller, so that may also excuse the motherboard.
I'm mostly fishing for thoughts here. I've considered simply seeing if SC2 starts messing up again and maybe throwing one (or both) of the games on my main SSD (it has enough room) and then seeing if they still freeze. My OS seems to behave well enough that I can exclude the OS SSD as a source of problems.
.To start off... here is my system:
Core i7 860 (no OC, Turbo and Speedstep enabled)
ASUS P7P55D-E Premium Motherboard
4x 2GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3 10666
2x Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
300GB Western Digital Velociraptor
The rest probably isn't a big deal. I just used NewEgg links for those if the basic description isn't enough.
Now... down to the meat and potatoes of the problem.
The first SSD is used for my OS. The second is used for my primary games, which right now consists of World of Warcraft and StarCraft II. I have Steam installed on the Velociraptor along with my Firefox cache and my pagefile. Well, the problem comes when I play either WoW or SC2, the game will simply randomly freeze up. With WoW, I can just open another instance (but not actually log in) and the game will come back. I cannot do this with SC2 though. I've had both games crash in the past with memory errors:
Here is one from 8/10:
I restarted and checked my memory and it came through clean. I upgraded the SSDs from firmware 02HA to 02HD ( the latest ). I was fine tonight while playing SC2, but I was in WoW for a bit and the game froze up on me. I ran the WoW repair tool to see if it could fix anything and the tool literally took almost an hour and a half to run ( which is a very long time for it ). The tool seemed to get snagged up on certain files, which could mean it found that they were corrupt and needed to be re-downloaded.
Although it got stuck a lot, this is all the log reports:
I also ran the SC2 repair tool and oddly enough while it also lagged up quite a bit, it only replaced repair.exe... I wonder if I should have faith in its repair job if the repair tool was broken
.So I only have three culprits in my mind... memory, motherboard or SSD. The motherboard has been troublesome to me so far (mostly software-wise), but I'm not really sold that this is a great suspect. The memory... well, it's been tested and didn't show any errors. I did adjust the memory voltage from 1.55V in the BIOS to 1.50V, which is the spec listed on the manufacturer's site. This did not seem to make a difference.
So, the only suspect left is the SSD, which nothing is perfect. My piece of evidence that points to the SSD is actually Steam. According to Steam, I've played Borderlands for 83.8 hours so far and I'm fairly certain that the game has never crashed or hung up. So if it were a problem with the memory, shouldn't it (most likely) have occurred with this game as well? Both drives are on the same SATA controller, so that may also excuse the motherboard.
I'm mostly fishing for thoughts here. I've considered simply seeing if SC2 starts messing up again and maybe throwing one (or both) of the games on my main SSD (it has enough room) and then seeing if they still freeze. My OS seems to behave well enough that I can exclude the OS SSD as a source of problems.
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