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- Punknoodle_Nick
Ok so the other night I was using the PC and loaded up iRacing. After about 20 seconds of being on track, it crashed, big time. Sound went all weird, screens went grey etc.
I was able to restart, and tried again, same thing. So, I assumed it was an iRacing issue. I changed track, went out again and it happened again. This time, the computer was really laggy and stuttery, even after I quit iRacing. So I restarted again, and tried to load Assetto Corsa, bang, crashed straight away and I couldn't even Ctrl+Alt+Del. This time, my PC wouldn't boot windows at all.
It would get to the bios screen and start to load, but then it would hang, the screen would go blank, and that would be that. So, I tried start up repair, but that failed.
The problem escalated after that. It got to the point where I couldn't even get to the BIOS screen. So I tried removing the Ram and just having one in at a time, and it would help initially, but then it would go back to the same problem after the next reboot. Tried clearing the cmos, removing the battery, no help.
Removed every other component so it was just the motherboard, CPU and a single stick of ram. No good. So I swapped the port the ram was in, and it booted fine. All the way to Windows. I pop the other stick in, boot again, yep no problem at all. But then I'd restart, and it would fail again.
I've removed and reseated the CPU. No issue there.
Checked the voltages of the ATX plug, all at the correct voltages.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte Sniper Z87 with a Core i5 4670K, 8Gb corsair ram. Tried both bios settings (dual bios).
I feel like I'm at the point where I admit that it's the motherboard but not sure if I should just try to source another 1150 board or upgrade to an 1151 and change the CPU and ram at the same time.
I was able to restart, and tried again, same thing. So, I assumed it was an iRacing issue. I changed track, went out again and it happened again. This time, the computer was really laggy and stuttery, even after I quit iRacing. So I restarted again, and tried to load Assetto Corsa, bang, crashed straight away and I couldn't even Ctrl+Alt+Del. This time, my PC wouldn't boot windows at all.
It would get to the bios screen and start to load, but then it would hang, the screen would go blank, and that would be that. So, I tried start up repair, but that failed.
The problem escalated after that. It got to the point where I couldn't even get to the BIOS screen. So I tried removing the Ram and just having one in at a time, and it would help initially, but then it would go back to the same problem after the next reboot. Tried clearing the cmos, removing the battery, no help.
Removed every other component so it was just the motherboard, CPU and a single stick of ram. No good. So I swapped the port the ram was in, and it booted fine. All the way to Windows. I pop the other stick in, boot again, yep no problem at all. But then I'd restart, and it would fail again.
I've removed and reseated the CPU. No issue there.
Checked the voltages of the ATX plug, all at the correct voltages.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte Sniper Z87 with a Core i5 4670K, 8Gb corsair ram. Tried both bios settings (dual bios).
I feel like I'm at the point where I admit that it's the motherboard but not sure if I should just try to source another 1150 board or upgrade to an 1151 and change the CPU and ram at the same time.