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.

[HiVizMan]

The windows screen you refer to is the point where the BIOS hands over control of the system to the OS, AND the point where if you are over clocked the full over-clock kicks in.

Does that happen even when you are at defaults?

[garebear87]

Yes, it did but I can get into Windows 7 fine now. But I am just not going to start RIFT, I just got done running tests on my hardware. My video cards, hard drives, ssd's, power supply, and my ram, and they all tested perfectly fine with no errors. Now I am just trying to figure out whether or not it is the motherboard that is bad, or my AMD FX-8150. Maybe it is both but I am starting to think it could be the motherboard. Since I had been having issues with my FX in it, and I just started having issues with my Phenom II 965 in it. But I can actually do things in Windows 7 with my Phenom II. My FX just freezes about 30 secs- 5 min after logging in.

[HiVizMan]

That is not good to hear about the FX not working in the board.

If your other CPU works then possibly the CPU is the cause? Just thinking out side the box here.

It might be a good idea to take both in and have them tested.

[klingler32]

Hello GareBear!

I have the same issue.
My computer :

FX8150
Asus Rampage Formula V
Raid 0 SSD 2x Intel 320 (40GB)
12 GB Kingston Hyper-X

Did you finaly find a solution?
I got random freeze every day! During gaming, software installation, I tried 3 times before I finally get over W7 instalation...
Strange... Did you try to update the SSDs Firmware?

Please HELP!!!!!
Thx 🙂

[garebear87]

Sorry, my internet has been down for awhile I found at that I had a bad CPU. So I just got another one and have been fine ever since. Thanks for the assistance you were all able to give.