caselabs magnum m8
asus maximus v formula / thunder fx (bios 1309)
enermax platimax 600W
intel core i7-3770k
Corsair Vengeance CMZ32GX3M4X1866C10 (4 x 8 GB) ver 8.23
evga 670 ftw
2 x samsung 830 series ssd each 256GB
2 x western digital caviar black each 2TB
4 x western digital caviar green 1 x 3TB, 3 x 2TB
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit english
external usb cd/dvd drive
i flashed the bios to 1309 after putting the hardware in the case, with nothing connected but the cpu and gpu and psu
i did a bios reset (using the button on the io panel and then made very few changes to the bios to fit my needs (like no logo, wait for key press to boot into windows, no igpu, ..., no overclocking
(bios is ahci of course) on the intel controller (there are from top to bottom 4 rows of sata ports on the mainboard with each row 2 on top of each other ... so 8 sata ports ... for the ssd i used the 2nd row from top, right below the black ones and i used the one farthest away from the mainboard, so i used the top one ...)
first windows installation was like connect only 1 ssd (on the sata port described above)
connect usb cd-rom drive, put windows 7 ultimate setup cd into it
turn on psu power
hit the start button on the case
so the whole boot scenario was at default settings and setting up windows i let everything mostly do windows 7 ... i didn't even pay attention about installing in normal mode or uefi mode ... i think default is normal mode so i guess it was a normal - non-uefi-mode installation
everything went fine, no problems, no crashes, no nothing
when windows was installed i used all the downloads from the asus website (in fact the rog website) and installed all the drivers so at the end i had nothing in the device manager that was not known and everything looked good to me ... even hat the intel sata controller and asmedia sata controller listed in the device manager
also installed the whole ai suite
then i started installing my software like thunderbird, firefox, office, monitoring tools like gpu-z, cpu-z rog, aida 64 and some other stuff
and then all of a sudden windows reboots, no bluescreen but with a surge protection message on the post screen
as all the hardware is brand new and as the psu should be a high quality top of the line one i thought that can't be ...
after some searching i did a memtest86+ with each stick alone in slot A2 ... i did one run on each stick in A2 ... and then i did one run with 2 sticks in A2 and B2 ... each run passed with no errors
after some searching on the internet someone pointed me to internal pll overvoltage and i disabled it ... i still had the asus surge protection in bios activated
and then the sudden reboots with no bluescreen were gone
instead now i get bluescreens (all kinds of) very random ... first i thought the sleep mode is causing trouble, so i disabled it ... but still bluescreens ...
it can't be a thermal problem, the case or better said the hardware in it is well cooled and the bluescreens come mostly when there's nothing going on ... kinda idle,
i did run the benchmarks for my system like pcmark and 3dmark and the small aida 64 benchmarks and everything turns out nice, i have good results, the temps go a bit high when doing some of them but that's because of the stock cooler, but nothing really scary ... and most important ... the system does not crash
i installed steam and gave rage and portal (1) a try and could play rage for 2 hours doing races on it where the hardware is put to the test, with all settings to maximum ... and no problems, no crashes
because the crashes did not stop when in windows doing almost nothing i re-installed, again non-uefi mode, when first time in windows i installed only the lan driver from the asus rog download and then let windows update the hell out of itself, then installed only what was not found and switched the standard sata controllers to intel and asmedia
still random crashes with bluescreens
so ... what should i do ?
● CaseLabs Magnum M8 ●Enermax Platimax EPM600AWT @ Eaton 3S 700 USV
● Asus Maximus V Formula / ThunderFX @ 1604
● Intel Core i7-3770K ● EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW
● CORSAIR CMZ32GX3M4X1866C10 (XMP) 32GB (4x8GB ) DS 9-9-9-24 1.5V@1333MHz
● 2 x SSD Samsung 830 Series 256GB ● 2 x WD Black 2TB ● 4 x WD Green 3/2/2/2TB
● 2 x HP W2207H @1680x1050 ● Logitech G500 ● Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard
● Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit english NON-UEFI + Asus U3S6 2xUSB 3.0 2xSATA 6G