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- Location
- Wyandotte, MI (South of Detroit)
I built a system for my son's girlfriend (MSI 970A-G46 motherboard, AMD FX-6300 CPU, Corsair H60 cooler, Crucial 8GB DDR3 RAM, 120GB SSD, 2TB WD Hard drive, EVGA GTX-760 video card, Corsair 300 case, 14" case fans and a DVD RW drive.
The system loaded Win7 (and Win8) just fine but after a day or two, BSOD's would pop up, usually with the KVMode or System fault message. I checked the drivers, settings, overclock (turned it off), temps, etc... and the BSOD's continued.
I noticed that the BIOS kept resetting the SATA mode to "IDE" instead of "AHCI" as I set it, so I changed the IDE mode setting to "IDE", reinstalled Win7 and loaded everything and run Prime95 and stress tested the PC over the weekend with no BSOD's at all. She installed WatchDogs and played it for two days and no error messages or BSOD's, so I am happy that's what it was...
The system loaded Win7 (and Win8) just fine but after a day or two, BSOD's would pop up, usually with the KVMode or System fault message. I checked the drivers, settings, overclock (turned it off), temps, etc... and the BSOD's continued.
I noticed that the BIOS kept resetting the SATA mode to "IDE" instead of "AHCI" as I set it, so I changed the IDE mode setting to "IDE", reinstalled Win7 and loaded everything and run Prime95 and stress tested the PC over the weekend with no BSOD's at all. She installed WatchDogs and played it for two days and no error messages or BSOD's, so I am happy that's what it was...
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 10 Pro 64bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Home built Intel i7-3770k-based system
- CPU
- Intel i7-3770k, Overclocked to 4.6GHz (46x100) with Corsair H110i GT cooler
- Motherboard
- ASRock Z77 OC Formula 2.30 BIOS
- Memory
- 32GB DDR3 2133 Corsair Vengeance Pro
- Graphics Card(s)
- GeForce GTX 980ti SC ACS 6GB DDR5 by EVGA
- Sound Card
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD, Corsair SP2500 speakers and subwoofer
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG 27EA33 [Monitor] (27.2"vis) HDMI
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (system drive)
WD 6TB Red NAS hard drives x 2 in Storage Spaces (redundancy)
- PSU
- Corsair 750ax fully modular power supply with sleeved cables
- Case
- Corsair Air 540 with 7 x 140mm fans on front, rear and top panels
- Cooling
- Corsair H110i GT liquid cooled CPU with 4 x 140" Corsair SP "push-pull" and 3 x 140mm fans
- Keyboard
- Thermaltake Poseidon Z illuminated keyboard
- Mouse
- Corsair M65 wired
- Internet Speed
- 85MBps DSL
- Browser
- Chrome and Edge
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender, MalwareBytes Pro and CCleaner Pro
- Other Info
- Client of Windows Server 2012 R2 10 PC's, laptops and smartphones on the WLAN.
1GBps Ethernet ports