Complete System Halt...HELP

Hardware
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I’ve come across a strange result when I performed some tasks, such as opening a livestream via livestreamer or starting or joining a game like in Space Engineers.

This result appears before me as a blank, black active screen on both monitors. No sound, no nothing. I’ve performed two software benchmarks memtest86+ v5.01 and prime95 (x64) v29 build 16.

My first benchmarking was with memtest since I suspected the ram:

MB: Gigabyte B75N V1.0
RAM: G.Skill Ares F3-1600C9D-8GAO 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Refer:

gigabyteMB
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SMP Enabled

Test 1

2 | 1 Failed at test #7

Test1
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Test 2

0 | 1 Passed

Test 3

0 | 2 Passed

Test 4

2 | 0 Failed - POST

Test 5

1 | 0 Passed

Test 6

2 | 0 Passed

Test 7

2 | 1 Failed Test #7

Test 8

2 | 1 Failed Test #7

SMP Disabled

Test 1

2 | 1 Passed

Test 2

2 | 1 Passed

Weirdly enough, when the SMP enabled tests fail with both sticks in, the 4th (3rd) core turns to a waiting state, I did the test again and watched the core and once it gets to the 7th test it starts to become slower than the other cores and stops at around 70% and then the system freezes. (Highlight in red)

Test7
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Now for the 2nd benchmark tool, prime95 was to test the CPU and RAM, however this results are mildly disturbing.

[Sun Aug 20 16:12:27 2017]
Self-test 384K passed!
Self-test 384K passed!
Self-test 384K passed!
Self-test 384K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 16:20:56 2017]
Self-test 448K passed!
Self-test 448K passed!
Self-test 448K passed!
Self-test 448K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 16:29:03 2017]
Self-test 512K passed!
Self-test 512K passed!
Self-test 512K passed!
Self-test 512K passed!
Self-test 16K passed!
Self-test 16K passed!
Self-test 16K passed!
Self-test 16K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 16:37:01 2017]
Self-test 576K passed!
Self-test 576K passed!
Self-test 576K passed!
Self-test 576K passed!
Self-test 20K passed!
Self-test 20K passed!
Self-test 20K passed!
Self-test 20K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 16:44:42 2017]
Self-test 672K passed!
Self-test 672K passed!
Self-test 672K passed!
Self-test 672K passed!
Self-test 24K passed!
Self-test 24K passed!
Self-test 24K passed!
Self-test 24K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 16:52:42 2017]
Self-test 768K passed!
Self-test 768K passed!
Self-test 768K passed!
Self-test 768K passed!
Self-test 28K passed!
Self-test 28K passed!
Self-test 28K passed!
Self-test 28K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:00:43 2017]
Self-test 864K passed!
Self-test 864K passed!
Self-test 864K passed!
Self-test 864K passed!
Self-test 35K passed!
Self-test 35K passed!
Self-test 35K passed!
Self-test 35K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:08:34 2017]
Self-test 960K passed!
Self-test 960K passed!
Self-test 960K passed!
Self-test 960K passed!
Self-test 40K passed!
Self-test 40K passed!
Self-test 40K passed!
Self-test 40K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:15:58 2017]
Self-test 1152K passed!
Self-test 1152K passed!
Self-test 1152K passed!
Self-test 1152K passed!
Self-test 50K passed!
Self-test 50K passed!
Self-test 50K passed!
Self-test 50K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:22:57 2017]
Self-test 1344K passed!
Self-test 1344K passed!
Self-test 1344K passed!
Self-test 1344K passed!
Self-test 64K passed!
Self-test 64K passed!
Self-test 64K passed!
Self-test 64K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:30:30 2017]
Self-test 1536K passed!
Self-test 1536K passed!
Self-test 1536K passed!
Self-test 1536K passed!
Self-test 80K passed!
Self-test 80K passed!
Self-test 80K passed!
Self-test 80K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:37:37 2017]
Self-test 1680K passed!
Self-test 1680K passed!
Self-test 1680K passed!
Self-test 1680K passed!
Self-test 96K passed!
Self-test 96K passed!
Self-test 96K passed!
Self-test 96K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:44:55 2017]
Self-test 1792K passed!
Self-test 1792K passed!
Self-test 1792K passed!
Self-test 1792K passed!
Self-test 112K passed!
Self-test 112K passed!
Self-test 112K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:50:09 2017]
Self-test 112K passed!
Self-test 2048K passed!
Self-test 2048K passed!
Self-test 2048K passed!
Self-test 2048K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 17:56:20 2017]
Self-test 128K passed!
Self-test 128K passed!
Self-test 128K passed!
Self-test 128K passed!
Self-test 2400K passed!
Self-test 2400K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:02:10 2017]
Self-test 2400K passed!
Self-test 2400K passed!
Self-test 144K passed!
Self-test 144K passed!
Self-test 144K passed!
Self-test 144K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:07:13 2017]
Self-test 2688K passed!
Self-test 2688K passed!
Self-test 2688K passed!
Self-test 2688K passed!
Self-test 168K passed!
Self-test 168K passed!
Self-test 168K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:12:52 2017]
Self-test 168K passed!
Self-test 3072K passed!
Self-test 3072K passed!
Self-test 3072K passed!
Self-test 3072K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:18:04 2017]
Self-test 200K passed!
Self-test 200K passed!
Self-test 200K passed!
Self-test 200K passed!
Self-test 3360K passed!
Self-test 3360K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:24:08 2017]
Self-test 3360K passed!
Self-test 3360K passed!
Self-test 240K passed!
Self-test 240K passed!
Self-test 240K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:29:19 2017]
Self-test 240K passed!
Self-test 3584K passed!
Self-test 3584K passed!
Self-test 3584K passed!
Self-test 3584K passed!
Self-test 288K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:34:34 2017]
Self-test 288K passed!
Self-test 288K passed!
Self-test 288K passed!
Self-test 336K passed!
Self-test 336K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:40:36 2017]
Self-test 336K passed!
Self-test 400K passed!
Self-test 336K passed!
Self-test 400K passed!
Self-test 400K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:45:42 2017]
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 400K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 480K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:50:45 2017]
Self-test 480K passed!
Self-test 15K passed!
Self-test 480K passed!
Self-test 480K passed!
Self-test 15K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 18:56:52 2017]
Self-test 560K passed!
Self-test 15K passed!
Self-test 560K passed!
Self-test 15K passed!
Self-test 18K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 19:02:10 2017]
Self-test 560K passed!
Self-test 18K passed!
Self-test 560K passed!
Self-test 640K passed!
Self-test 18K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 19:07:31 2017]
Self-test 640K passed!
Self-test 18K passed!
Self-test 21K passed!
Self-test 640K passed!
Self-test 21K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 19:13:04 2017]
Self-test 640K passed!
Self-test 720K passed!
Self-test 21K passed!
Self-test 720K passed!
Self-test 25K passed!
Self-test 21K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 19:19:20 2017]
Self-test 25K passed!
Self-test 720K passed!
Self-test 800K passed!
Self-test 720K passed!
Self-test 800K passed!
Self-test 25K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 19:24:48 2017]
Self-test 32K passed!
Self-test 25K passed!
Self-test 32K passed!
Self-test 800K passed!
Self-test 896K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 19:31:04 2017]
Self-test 800K passed!
Self-test 896K passed!
Self-test 32K passed!
Self-test 36K passed!
Self-test 32K passed!
Self-test 36K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 19:37:55 2017]
Self-test 1024K passed!
Self-test 896K passed!
Self-test 896K passed!
Self-test 1024K passed!
Self-test 48K passed!
Self-test 36K passed!
Self-test 36K passed!
Self-test 48K passed!
[Sun Aug 20 19:45:33 2017]
Self-test 1024K passed!
Self-test 1280K passed!
Self-test 1024K passed!

So there you have it, about two days of testing and still don’t know what the hell is wrong with this system. My only hunches are the RAM, CPU and motherboard.

Thoughts?

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update bios ?

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Have you tried setting the RAM timings manually? It appears that the sticks are running at looser timings than they are advertised to run at (set at CAS 11, supposed to be able to run CAS 9 at that MHZ), and still giving you problems. I would imagine tightening them up to advertised specs would make them even less stable.

If you have any way to try out known good sticks in your machine, or to bring your suspected bad sticks to another machine, then you would be able to conclusively tell if they are the issue. Right now they appear to be the prime suspect.

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After days of testing, it’s the GPU that’s the culprit.

It’s an ASUS Radeon R9 390X Strix DirectCU III OC 8GB card, it’s 20 months old.

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