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Strange lock ups

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munkle

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So I am re-purposing my old pc (z87, 4770k 16gb 1866mhz ram) to be my new media center. I reformatted the pc and installed windows 8.1, I was getting strange lock ups (complete system lock up had to reset) when trying to install intel graphics drivers, so I let windows update install the drivers instead of me doing it, and it worked fine. I never used the igp on my main rig so I thought maybe the igp has issues, but it passed furmark just fine for a day.

So I installed a nvidia gt 430 (which was in my previous media center and known to be good), I get a hard lock up when trying to install the drivers for it, but allowing windows update to install the drivers worked fine.

So I'm no longer thinking its the igp on the cpu, though I used this board, cpu, and ram as my main rig for 6 months with no issues. Running memtest at the current moment, so far 1 pass no errors but i'm going to let it run for a day. I have tried two different ssd's as well to rule them out and still same odd lock up issues when trying install graphics drivers for either the igp or the nvidia card.

Power supply is good as I had it running my now current main pc (z97, 32gb 2100mhz ram, 4770k) doing prime 95 for 3 days and no issues.

I'm honestly at a loss here as I was previously using all parts with no issues before the reformat, so far what I am left thinking is either something was damaged when moving parts around (haven't seen any damage) or my install media (burnt iso, downloaded from my schools msdnaa page, verified fine after burn) was bad.

Anyone have any other suggestions? It just seems odd that I can force it to lock up when trying to install drivers every time and its really not random. I have tried redownloading the drivers and same thing.
 
Have you tried forcing a system dump to try and find the exact error after it locks up? Like when you restart it, dump everything and look for the event logs. In there, after some dedicated searching, you might be able to find an error code on write or something that would tell you what started going wrong when it starts to lock up.

Outside of that, I'm really confused by the idea that you can update manually and make it lock up, but then running windows update to find the drivers makes it work just fine... Is it possible that you're using beta drivers that just aren't compatible with your configuration, or are these basically the same stock drivers that WinUpdate is pulling from the internet? If they are the same drivers, then I have to agree that it's especially freaky that this keeps happening. Also, what were the results of Memtest? How many passes could you get through before you hit an error, or were they solid all the way through? As I was reading, I was also wondering about whether or not you damaged something moving the parts around, but if the problem is easily repeatable while you are manually intalling the drivers, then that kinda rules out that possibility. Let me know how the memtest went and we'll go from there I think. Because unless your memory is dropping errors during the manual installation, I can't immediately think of a reason this would happen. But even if your memory was dropping errors, it wouldn't be so consistent that whenever you manually install, only then would it lock up. Just makes no sense. I'm gonna see if I an dig up some r'search and see if I can find anything even remotely documented on this sort of issue.
 
I think it was the os disk I burned. I made a new one which verified fine again, but this time no issues after reformat.
 
munkle said:
I think it was the os disk I burned. I made a new one which verified fine again, but this time no issues after reformat.
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Well crap dude I'm glad it works now. I was kind of worried we'd stumbled upon some sort of black hole where problems go and no solutions could be found or something. Thanks for the response tho! I'ma bookmark this just in case this ever happens to me!
 
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