H67 system does this. What do you think might be wrong?

[spencerp]

I just finished putting together this machine. It's got a GIGABYTE GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3 and an Intel i5 2500 CPU with 8 GB or Corsair 1600 RAM.

During installation of Windows 7, it had a weird video issue. I just figured that it was solar flares, so I restarted the installation. It worked OK. Then after a few hours of use, doing HTPC tasks, not really hitting the proc hard at all, it would freeze and do what's on the picture.

Video of it is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spthealien/5567187112/

Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm thinking it's the motherboard. I tested the RAM and it seemed to be OK. It would freeze several times within 24 hours. It's a machine that's going to be on all the time so I need it to work.

Any ideas?

 

[dma0991]

Looks to me like the Intel HD2000 IGP in the Core i5 2500 is at fault here. I am not too sure whether you're using a discrete GC or not but I assume that you're not using a discrete GC and using the Intel IGP instead.

My bet is that the problem is with the processor and changing it would solve the problem.

 

[BTA]

Try a discrete video card if you have one available, just to test. I actually think it is most likely the motherboard that is the issue though not the CPU.

 

[Vette73]

Its either the GPU on the cpu or a bad board since it has to run through the board.

Try to reseat the heatsink and also check the cable. After that RMA the cpu first.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I got that on my HTPC IINC monitor 2-3 times, but it's AM2 AMD and it did have a 5450 GPU.

Restarting the monitor fixed the issue and it wasn't doing the same thing on my 2nd display (TV) at the time.

It was a monitor issue I figured, but it didn't happen since.

 

[spencerp]

Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking that it might be the motherboard initially, but after reading DMA's response this morning (before anyone else replied), I rethought my RMA attack plan. I am getting Amazon to overnight me a new CPU and will run the system for a few days to see if it happens again. I was hoping that it was not the motherboard as Newegg is now out of stock on the motherboard I got.

I am hoping this fixes it.

Thanks everyone for your input.

 

[dma0991]

Well there might be a possibility that the motherboard is at fault as well as the display output is connected to the H67 chipset before it is connected to HDMI/DVI/DP out.

So if the processor change does not fix the problem then the next possible fault is with the motherboard. Lets just hope that the processor change might fix the problem though. ^_^

 

[pitz]

I get that nasty static during bootup on my Asus P8H67 board, i7-2600 CPU.

Monitor is an old Samsung 15" 570V 1024x768 VGA, which might have something to do with it.

How do you have the monitor connected? DVI? HDMI? I haven't tried mine on a DVI or Displayport display yet.

Tried a different monitor??

 

[spencerp]

So I swapped out the processor and thought everything was going well until it did it again.

Taking the motherboard out and swapping it for an ASRock mobo. That better fix it.

 

[pitz]

BTW, no nasty static on mine when I connect it to Displayport (which I did about an hour ago).

 

[PreferLinux]

An observation of mine: Phoronix had the same sort of problem with Linux. They thought it was the drivers, but it worked fine on an Intel board, just not on their Asus one. I now suspect it may have happened with Windows too if they had tried it, but they didn't.

 

[pitz]

An observation of mine: Phoronix had the same sort of problem with Linux. They thought it was the drivers, but it worked fine on an Intel board, just not on their Asus one. I now suspect it may have happened with Windows too if they had tried it, but they didn't.

Yeah I get a bit of OpenGL tearing (should take a picture and post it), and the driver sometimes doesn't gracefully exit on Linux (kernel 2.6.38.2, slackware-current Mesa, libdrm, and X). Hopefully will be fixed in future driver updates. None of the complaints that Phoronix had with the Asus H67, so I think they just had a bad board.

 

[spencerp]

I don't think it's anything to do with the port used as it does it to both HDMI and VGA. Not only that, it hard freezes, necessitating a hard reset. Power cycling the display does nothing. It does it whether it's connected to a computer monitor (VGA) or LCD TV (HDMI).

New motherboard should come in soon. That has to fix it. Otherwise, I'm not sure what else to do.

 

[spencerp]

Though it might be a bit premature (it's been on for three days straight, I'd feel better after a week), it looks like it was the motherboard. The Gigabyte motherboard could not be on longer than about 5 hours without the hard freeze.

I changed it to an ASRock microATX with a USB header. Pretty awesome, so far.

 

[spencerp]

If anyone's interested, here's my setup: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spthealien/sets/72157626261546856/with/5524787081/

 

[EarlGray]

I had the same problem with my GIGABYTE GA-H67A-UD3H-B3, it was the memory that was causing it.
After I replaced it with G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series F3-10666CL7D-8GBXH it never did it again.

 

[mshakir]

I just finished putting together this machine. It's got a GIGABYTE GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3 and an Intel i5 2500 CPU with 8 GB or Corsair 1600 RAM.

During installation of Windows 7, it had a weird video issue. I just figured that it was solar flares, so I restarted the installation. It worked OK. Then after a few hours of use, doing HTPC tasks, not really hitting the proc hard at all, it would freeze and do what's on the picture.


Video of it is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spthealien/5567187112/

Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm thinking it's the motherboard. I tested the RAM and it seemed to be OK. It would freeze several times within 24 hours. It's a machine that's going to be on all the time so I need it to work.

Any ideas?

New to the forum. I hope I am doing it right.

I got a similar display once and could not find a way to get around it.

Initially, I had connected DVI port to my computer monitor. System was up in no time and was very stable for few days. Later I decided to connect my TV using HDMI port. Not sure if connecting hdmi port while computer had any thing to do with it. My computer crashed saying found a new hardware. After re-starting the computer, the problem persisted. The driver that replaced the gigabyte driver was the culprit. Somehow, DVI port connected to monitor and hdmi port connected to TV did not seem to work. My son, a sharp and experienced kid, decided to connect vga port to my tv, a 3 year old hd tv brand sceptre. We had disconnected monitor initially to get the display back. We put the gigabyte driver from DVD back and got system up. We removed the dvi port going to monitor. I believe this one does not work, if hdmi port is used. Later we connected vga back to monitor and hdmi to TV and now the system is stable and has been working fine. Computer detects hdmi port first, so need to make vga port as default, as we want computer display to have the desktop. This setup has been stable for now several days. DVI port from the MB is no longer used and gigabyte driver from CD/DVD is back. Do not load the new driver that is on the net.

We have a very basic system but with latest important components. i7 2500K, Ripjaws 1333MHz 4Gig memory, gigabyte H67A-UD3h_B3 rel 1.1, WD caviar 7200rpm 1TB drive SATA 7.0Gb/s, DVD burner lite-on iHAS124-04 etc. ANTEC Sonta IV box, Monitor is 25" Sumsung 1920x1200 running windows 7. System has been quite stable since putting it together by us. Only problem is hdmi produces stereo output(from computer) requiring an external decoder(not sure what this means) as we tried to connect tv digital audio port to home theater sound system and could not get 5.1 surround sound. Otherwise system is rock solid. Just be careful when making default what audio driver setup you pick or you will kill the sound. Took little time to figure that out. If hdmi set up is used, the headphones and speaker drivers are off(my disappointment).

 

[bankster55]

@mshakir

nice post - thnx

 

[Dissident]

should I bump an old thread? Why not, since it describes the same thing, with a different motherboard. If it is the RAM, as someone suggested, I'll know soon enough as I manually set the RAM timings to what is specified by the manufacturer.

This did not happen with the revision 1 motherboard, only the new revision 3 that Asus sent me. I have a PH867-M LE. It happens at random, every day to every 5 days. memtest and prime pass. All bios settings correct. If it happens during a video, the sound will freeze but stay on. Everything becomes unresponsive. Screen flashes. Becomes Garbled. Suspect motherboard. Will probably RMA. Sandy Bridge, integrated video card graphics 2500 2400. H67 Hard crash, freeze, lockup. (help out others searching for this issue) Dark areas are due to fast shutter speed/low aperture combined with screen refresh rate.

 

[pitz]

Just to update my previous post, Asus P8H67-M-Evo, VGA output, i7-2600, with Linux Kernel 2.6.39.3 is pretty much flawless. 3.0 kernel works great too, but had to downgrade to 2.6.39.3 because of some issues with wireless.