Gaming PC Diagnostic

[Ghostfaced]

To support my previous theory regarding Microsoft C++.

"Make sure you have Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package installed.

For a 64 bit OS: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=18471"

This person had a similar issue with the error you got in SWTOR. I know in a lot of cases with video games in particular, not having this could restrict you from having various visual runtime components necessary for some games.

I would absolutely tackle this, if you have not.

Supporting Source: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=290107

[Yinaltin]

Originally Posted by Pringles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I bet you have more bad memory. Run a memtest

this .

[Ghostfaced]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We tried the following diagnostics...

Removed a stick of RAM.. still issues.
Placed RAM stick back, removed the other stick... still issues.
Removed video card and used onboard HD 4000... still issues.

They checked RAM.

However, with dual channel you may need to remove both, and replace with two other sticks.

[Whiteberry]

Originally Posted by kaos057 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Does that mean you have catalyst AND nVidia software both installed? That would cause problems for sure.

wont that cause issues within the bios for having 2 differnt display cards software? and is that even possible to have 2 i though one might have over writed the other

[Whiteberry]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770EVGA SuperClocked w/ ACX Cooling 02G-P4-2774-KR GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video CardASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Western Digital WD AV-GP WD10EURX 1TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM
Intel 520 Series Cherryville SSDSC2CW180A3K5 2.5" 180GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL

Me like that cpu and graphics card but im surprised u didnt get the 2nd gen i7 with the 6 core and hyper threading wich would have made u have 12 cores

[Pringles]

Originally Posted by Ghostfaced [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They checked RAM.

However, with dual channel you may need to remove both, and replace with two other sticks.

Thats not "checking ram" thats just removing ram and replacing it with other ram, doesnt tell you if you are working with good ram or not.

[Ghostfaced]

Originally Posted by Pringles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thats not "checking ram" thats just removing ram and replacing it with other ram, doesnt tell you if you are working with good ram or not.

It's a pretty good test if you remove two sticks, and replace them with two new sticks. What are you suggesting exactly? I don't really want to argue, i just want to help the OP out.

[Rogean]

I had a long reply typed out, mainly yelling at Ghostface for thinking that googling everquest technical FAQ would be anything but insulting. This thread was for bouncing ideas off other advanced pc builders. I scrapped it though.

Anyways, I'm going to try a few things based on some posts in this thread, but still leaning towards a MB issue. I have a hard time thinking it's anything software related since we reinstalled the OS twice. The games themselves will install the runtimes.. and we're having freezing outside of games anyways. I guess I can't rule out that there's a particular driver fucking everything up?

[Thulack]

Now while i know not every motherboard is perfect going by the 1 star comments on newegg for that board things such as bad memory controller, bad memory slots, CPU getting overvoltage i would probably put the blame on the motherboard as you have basically done everything but changed power supplies.

[Rogean]

Ok got some interesting information.

First, my friend lives far away so I'm helping him figure this out remotely. I just built it and shipped it originally.

Ok so, we had another freeze just a minute ago and he mentioned that, typically if he hits the reset switch when the computer is working, it resets instantly, as any computer normally would when you hit the motherboard reset. However, when the computer freezes, hitting the reset switch isn't doing anything. He has to cut power to reboot it. I'm almost convinced at this point that it's motherboard related.