Hey man, how you been?
So I finally figured it out. A few years ago when I received a new motherboard, for some reason I couldn't boot with hypertheading. I figured whatever killed my mobo also damaged my CPU. So for years I just dealt with occasional blue screens and game crashes and no hypertheading. Bummed because what's the point of a 980x if I can't use it?
Well a few days ago I decided to dig into it and find the issue. I started by updating the system bios. That helped as I was able to boot with hypertheading but it made it so I would bluescreen very frequently, to the point I could hardly do anything.
So last night I spent hours (till 4am) testing everything I could think of. RAM, Hard drives, GPUs, taking them all out and testing different slots for both RAM and GPUs. In fact I had another 3x8GB set of RAM so swapped that too.
I spent hours looking through all the stuff from my deployment in 2013-2014. Did so because I had an i7 920 that I bought to test against my 980x to solve the issues with hypertheading. I couldn't find the 920 and it's probably best that I didn't.
I tested drivers, Uninstalled stuff reinstalled ect.
Nothing made sense.
At 330 am I decided to play in the bios. As it turns out, at default settings with the new motherboard, the 980x wasn't getting enough voltage. By upping that, I was able to mitigate all bluescreens and crashes. I couldn't believe it. Sometimes the simplest things just go right over my head as I tend to over think. I've been able to run a full virus scan of all 4 of my hard drives, create image backups ect.
I even have the system overclocked to 4GHz. Seems stable. I havn't had a crash or blue screen since that wasn't related to overclocking.
And to think, just updating the bios when I installed the new motherboard and putting my overclock back could have avoided this 3 year headache.
How I missed that or neglected to do that... I'll never know. Lol.
Guess I can laugh about it now. But that's the story. :-p.
Now if I find the 920 I'll bench it just for kicks.
My next moves with this system is to update the 160GB OS SSD to a larger SSD and upgrade to 680M SLI. At that point I'll be done upgrading thus system since it's old now. System now has 2x2TB HDDs for storage and backups, a 1TB msata drive for my games. So 5+ TV of space. I also keep my backups on external drives too.
I just havn't seen any need to upgrade as its still a very capable system. Don't know when I'll ever replace it, but I'd love to build a desktop. As far as another system like it, don't know if they will continue making one with as much HDD space. Plus I like having many drives to organize things, rather than partitioning. So this system will be with me for the foreseeable future.. :-D
Wow that was a rant... Lol
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk