Random Freezes With Crosshair V Formula & AMD FX 8150

[garebear87]

So I recently built a computer about 3 weeks ago, here are the specs.

Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula
CPU: AMD FX-8150 Eight Core Processor
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz 16GB (4x4GB)
Video Card: Diamond AMD Radeon 7750 X2 In Crossfire
PhysX: Nvidia GTX 550 TI With Cracked Drivers for PhysX
Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1050 Watt With 82 AMPS Off SIngle 12V+ Rail
Optical Drive 1: ASUS DVD Burner
Optical Drive 2: LG Blu-Ray Player
SSD: Intel SSD 520 Series 60GB Cherryville X2 In Raid 0
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB HDD 3/GBps

When I first built it I tried installing Windows 7 on my SDD's while they were in RAID 0. I kept getting random freezes at the installer, while It was installing and massive freezes when I finally was able to get Windows 7 on. I then reset then deleted the RAID entry and loaded defaults in the BIOS. I then proceeded and installed Windows 7 onto one of the 60GB SSD's without RAID 0 and I was able to install fine. I then froze on several occassions while playing SWTOR while I had the overclock button active. I turned it off and stopped freezing, then I ran out of space on my 60GB with the OS on it and decided to try RAID 0 again. I updated the BIOS and it froze like crazy again during the Windows 7 Install. I also tried the Windows 8 beta and it worked at first then started getting random freezes while on Youtube. Then whenever my PC would reboot my board would not post at all. my monitor would get no signal unless I pressed the GO Button on the upper-right hand corner of the mobo while the PC was on and held the power button to turn it off. It would then post the next time I turned it on, I had to keep repeating this each time to get it to post after every reboot. I tried clearing the CMOS, flashing the BIOS, ran tests on all SDD's and HDD's, and I ran Memtest for 8 hours and everything had no errors and I would still get freezes. Then I removed my AMD FX 8150 and put my AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz 965 Black Edition CPU in. After that I stopped freezing even in RAID 0, my board started posting normally again and I haven't had any problems. But I am still trying to figure out whether or not it is my FX CPU acting up or if it's the mobo having issues with the CPU. Any help would be appreciated and I hope this is the right place to post this haha. My brother thinks I am not having enough juice to power everything but I am sure that power supply is sufficient.

[n0tiert]

garebear87 wrote:
So I recently built a computer about 3 weeks ago, here are the specs.

Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula
CPU: AMD FX-8150 Eight Core Processor
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz 16GB (4x4GB)
Video Card: Diamond AMD Radeon 7750 X2 In Crossfire
PhysX: Nvidia GTX 550 TI With Cracked Drivers for PhysX
Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1050 Watt With 82 AMPS Off SIngle 12V+ Rail
Optical Drive 1: ASUS DVD Burner
Optical Drive 2: LG Blu-Ray Player
SSD: Intel SSD 520 Series 60GB Cherryville X2 In Raid 0
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB HDD 3/GBps

When I first built it I tried installing Windows 7 on my SDD's while they were in RAID 0. I kept getting random freezes at the installer, while It was installing and massive freezes when I finally was able to get Windows 7 on. I then reset then deleted the RAID entry and loaded defaults in the BIOS. I then proceeded and installed Windows 7 onto one of the 60GB SSD's without RAID 0 and I was able to install fine. I then froze on several occassions while playing SWTOR while I had the overclock button active. I turned it off and stopped freezing, then I ran out of space on my 60GB with the OS on it and decided to try RAID 0 again. I updated the BIOS and it froze like crazy again during the Windows 7 Install. I also tried the Windows 8 beta and it worked at first then started getting random freezes while on Youtube. Then whenever my PC would reboot my board would not post at all. my monitor would get no signal unless I pressed the GO Button on the upper-right hand corner of the mobo while the PC was on and held the power button to turn it off. It would then post the next time I turned it on, I had to keep repeating this each time to get it to post after every reboot. I tried clearing the CMOS, flashing the BIOS, ran tests on all SDD's and HDD's, and I ran Memtest for 8 hours and everything had no errors and I would still get freezes. Then I removed my AMD FX 8150 and put my AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz 965 Black Edition CPU in. After that I stopped freezing even in RAID 0, my board started posting normally again and I haven't had any problems. But I am still trying to figure out whether or not it is my FX CPU acting up or if it's the mobo having issues with the CPU. Any help would be appreciated and I hope this is the right place to post this haha. My brother thinks I am not having enough juice to power everything but I am sure that power supply is sufficient.

Hi,
what Bios rev you have currently installed in Mainboard ?
try with latest 1301 Bios from Asus ......

Bios 1301:
1.Improve system stability.
2.Enhance compatibility with some USB devices.

try only with crossfire first ..... if all runs fine , plug in Nvidia card again to check if there could be the issue (PSU Power), coz on load the FX pulls more than the older phenom

[garebear87]

n0tiert wrote:
Hi,
what Bios rev you have currently installed in Mainboard ?
try with latest 1301 Bios from Asus ......

Bios 1301:
1.Improve system stability.
2.Enhance compatibility with some USB devices.

try only with crossfire first ..... if all runs fine , plug in Nvidia card again to check if there could be the issue (PSU Power), coz on load the FX pulls more than the older phenom

I have BIOS 1301 right now, that is what it was freezing with but yeah I'll try pulling out the nVidia card and just try crossfire. I just have to put the FX back in first and I'll let you know what's what but anyways thanks for the tip man appreciate it.

[Mummy]

garebear87 wrote:
So I recently built a computer about 3 weeks ago, here are the specs.

Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula
CPU: AMD FX-8150 Eight Core Processor
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz 16GB (4x4GB)
Video Card: Diamond AMD Radeon 7750 X2 In Crossfire
PhysX: Nvidia GTX 550 TI With Cracked Drivers for PhysX
Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1050 Watt With 82 AMPS Off SIngle 12V+ Rail
Optical Drive 1: ASUS DVD Burner
Optical Drive 2: LG Blu-Ray Player
SSD: Intel SSD 520 Series 60GB Cherryville X2 In Raid 0
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB HDD 3/GBps

Isint Intel 520 based on "Sandforce"? Old Sandforce SSD's and some new ones too have/had that problem depending on hardware. But new FW sould have fix it and i think those new ones should use it already. Maybe it just sounds old Sandforce problem and realy are new one.

[HiVizMan]

Intel 520 series uses a Sandforce 2281 controller

[garebear87]

Well I put my FX back in and used just my SSD's, 8GB of RAM, and one video card. It didn't post again, I then pulled out the CPU and saw a little bit thermal paste along with a bent pin. I cleaned the pins and bent the one back as best as I could but it is still not posting unless I do that thing with the go button I mentioned. But it works fine with the Phenom II. So I most likely just have a busted CPU.

[Mummy]

CPU's allso have your memory controller and they arent same on every version (FX, Phenom, Athlon,..) of CPU. So allso use only one of your 4 ram's in fartest slot. after bootup with go button. Make sure your ram is set like on Rajas threath for better stability and try again with 2 and after that 4.

Here's the link for that memory thread.
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?3468-Crosshair-V-Formula-Easy-Memory-Setup-Guide

[HiVizMan]

Use a very thin (sharp) blade to straighten or align your bent pin. Why it might work with one CPU and not another is because not all the pins are utilised with the earlier CPU but may be critical for the FX CPU.

[garebear87]

Sorry was on vacation, but yeah all of my CPU pins are straight . But I still have to use the GO! Button to get it to post, I can be in Windows 7 for about 30 secs on my desktop then it freezes. Also I tried to use the easy memory 4gb dimm setup guide from Raja. But every time I set the values they immediately get switched to the original ones. Scratch that I actually was finally able to save his settings and now I am able to post through normal restarting. I am just having problems booting to Windows 7 in Raid 0, it hangs at the splash screen.

[garebear87]

I put my AMD Phenom 965 4-core back in and I was stable for a day and a half. When I was playing RIFT my PC randomly froze and then. When I powered it down and powered it back on it kept restarting right when the login screen for windows loaded. So it is stuck in a restarting loop right now without the FX