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Heya.
Last week i bought a new PC
Asus P8P67 Pro B3 (rev 3.0)
Ram:
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 8GB CL9
Kit w/2x 4GB XMS3, CL9-9-9-24, for Phenom II and Core i3/i5/i7, 1.5v
i5 2500K processor
650W Corsair PSU
Asus 6950 GPU
Disk drives are
SSD: Crucial 128 gb (system disk)
HDDs; a WD 1500gb 5400 rpm, a 750 gb seagate 7200 rpm and a 1000gb samsung 7200 rpm
After assembling my pc and booting up without a hitch, installing windows without a hitch, etc i figured everything was ok, and considered this pc finished built, and started installing the various programs (like iTunes, fire wall, firefox, etc)
To start getting stuff like flash, javascript, etc, the first thing i did was go to youtube (with firefox) and in the middle of watching a flick on youtube the PC stops. While the pc is stopped nothing new happens, no pages gets loaded, folders changed, programs started, or whatever; but the clock in systray keeps ticking away, i am able to move the mouse, and also able to scroll up and down on already loaded web pages.
After a little while (normally 5ish seconds) the whole PC resumes, music continues playing, videos continue, web pages start loading, etc
The PC doesnt actually crash or anything, every process just stops or freezes then continues as if nothing had happened a few seconds later.
Another reproducable peculiar effect is that for example CGI in games takes a while to load, videos that would load instantly on my previous, 4 year old (with no upgrades on it since then) computer.
Also occationally the games i play will also completely stop dead in their tracks and stop updating the game world, but whatever has loaded already is fully interactable. I am for example able to look and turn around in fps games while this happens, but not able to move or fire weapons or open menus. Trees will continue swaying in the wind, fires will flicker, ambient sounds continue playing (whereas music from winamp stops)
This problem too lasts for about 5 seconds then resumes everything as if nothing had happened.
All my games are played from my 1000 gb samsung drive
All my music and videos are played from my 1500 gb WD drive
All installed programs,browsers, "system stuff", is installed and ran from my SSD drive
So basically this problem seems to happen to almost every disk i have (the 750gb one is for storage of stuff i rarely use, which explains why its seemingly unaffected)
I really doubt that all my drives managed to get broken when swapping them from my old pc, but to check it anyways i put my games drive in my old pc and tried playing those same ingame videos that will take 5 seconds to start when played from my new pc. They all started virtually instantly, on a pc with a tenth of the computing power of this new one.
I have also run SpeedFan, RealTemp, Windows Memory Diagnostic, Crystal Disk Info, Asus AI Suite II, CPUID, CPU-Z, Windows event manager, and not a single one of the programs points out anything weird or possibly faulty. All temperatures are very good (25-33C on cpu, 35ish on HDDs)
I have double checked all cables in the computer. All SATA components are connected to Intel SATA ports, ram is in slots 2 and 4, all sata cables are new.
I have also checked that all drivers are the correct versions, i have the same version numbers as everything on ASUS' web page, and Intel's check says everything is up to date.
I really am at a loss to what to do now. It is so frustrating to have looked forward to build this new pc for over a year, only to have this happen. The PC is essentially useless, as the freezes happen quite frequently (anywhere from once an hour to 2 minutes apart), and it is a major stress factor in using it.
Id be very grateful for any and all assistance i might be given. Maybe there is something obvious im missing.
The reason i posted this in the motherboard category is because it frankly seems that the mobo is the problem. Every component that seems affected works fine elsewhere.
Last week i bought a new PC
Asus P8P67 Pro B3 (rev 3.0)
Ram:
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 8GB CL9
Kit w/2x 4GB XMS3, CL9-9-9-24, for Phenom II and Core i3/i5/i7, 1.5v
i5 2500K processor
650W Corsair PSU
Asus 6950 GPU
Disk drives are
SSD: Crucial 128 gb (system disk)
HDDs; a WD 1500gb 5400 rpm, a 750 gb seagate 7200 rpm and a 1000gb samsung 7200 rpm
After assembling my pc and booting up without a hitch, installing windows without a hitch, etc i figured everything was ok, and considered this pc finished built, and started installing the various programs (like iTunes, fire wall, firefox, etc)
To start getting stuff like flash, javascript, etc, the first thing i did was go to youtube (with firefox) and in the middle of watching a flick on youtube the PC stops. While the pc is stopped nothing new happens, no pages gets loaded, folders changed, programs started, or whatever; but the clock in systray keeps ticking away, i am able to move the mouse, and also able to scroll up and down on already loaded web pages.
After a little while (normally 5ish seconds) the whole PC resumes, music continues playing, videos continue, web pages start loading, etc
The PC doesnt actually crash or anything, every process just stops or freezes then continues as if nothing had happened a few seconds later.
Another reproducable peculiar effect is that for example CGI in games takes a while to load, videos that would load instantly on my previous, 4 year old (with no upgrades on it since then) computer.
Also occationally the games i play will also completely stop dead in their tracks and stop updating the game world, but whatever has loaded already is fully interactable. I am for example able to look and turn around in fps games while this happens, but not able to move or fire weapons or open menus. Trees will continue swaying in the wind, fires will flicker, ambient sounds continue playing (whereas music from winamp stops)
This problem too lasts for about 5 seconds then resumes everything as if nothing had happened.
All my games are played from my 1000 gb samsung drive
All my music and videos are played from my 1500 gb WD drive
All installed programs,browsers, "system stuff", is installed and ran from my SSD drive
So basically this problem seems to happen to almost every disk i have (the 750gb one is for storage of stuff i rarely use, which explains why its seemingly unaffected)
I really doubt that all my drives managed to get broken when swapping them from my old pc, but to check it anyways i put my games drive in my old pc and tried playing those same ingame videos that will take 5 seconds to start when played from my new pc. They all started virtually instantly, on a pc with a tenth of the computing power of this new one.
I have also run SpeedFan, RealTemp, Windows Memory Diagnostic, Crystal Disk Info, Asus AI Suite II, CPUID, CPU-Z, Windows event manager, and not a single one of the programs points out anything weird or possibly faulty. All temperatures are very good (25-33C on cpu, 35ish on HDDs)
I have double checked all cables in the computer. All SATA components are connected to Intel SATA ports, ram is in slots 2 and 4, all sata cables are new.
I have also checked that all drivers are the correct versions, i have the same version numbers as everything on ASUS' web page, and Intel's check says everything is up to date.
I really am at a loss to what to do now. It is so frustrating to have looked forward to build this new pc for over a year, only to have this happen. The PC is essentially useless, as the freezes happen quite frequently (anywhere from once an hour to 2 minutes apart), and it is a major stress factor in using it.
Id be very grateful for any and all assistance i might be given. Maybe there is something obvious im missing.
The reason i posted this in the motherboard category is because it frankly seems that the mobo is the problem. Every component that seems affected works fine elsewhere.
