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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

I'd use onboard video temporarily and see if the issues continue like that.


Since you have four HDs it wouldn't hurt to run the portable zip edition of CDI to check HD health too:
http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Centripetal Horse posted:

It would appear that the issue goes away when using onboard video. Is my PCIE x16 slot hosed? Is it a chipset issue? I've already replaced the graphics card. Damnit. This is starting to smell like a complete teardown.

I'd run DDU http://www.wagnardmobile.com/?q=display-driver-uninstaller-ddu- and then install older drivers like http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/96073/en-us

In recent months there's been some bad video drivers released that've caused people some issues.


If older drivers don't help it could be a motherboard/PSU/GPU issue. Another thing to try would be using the GPU and just having the OS HD connected.

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Were both video cards made by EVGA? I've noticed more bad EVGA cards in here over the years than others.

Did you try just having the OS drive connected during these tests?

I would guess bad PSU before bad processor but both are possible.

I'd also install Windows 10 unless you had a reason for not doing so.

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