FredEx
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Don't know if you all know what "Going South" means, here it means it is going bad. All of a sudden the last two days I've had crashes. First, all temps are good, better in fact since I turned the heat down and the ambient in the house is lower. I may have more than on issue.
I had not used Firefox for a while, not at all on this system and since they'd come out with 20.01 I decided to give it a go. I get errors on it, but that may be related to Tab Mix Plus auto upgrading. Problems with it started the same day, but other problems started then too. Is it different issues or are they related? Have not figured that out.
I'm having to run my 6850 which is just a year old, sis bought it for me for my birthday last year when my 5770 died. That was this time of year, since my BD is May 4th and the card died just before it last year. ANYWAY...I was getting a message the Windows Desktop Manager stopped working and it was closed down. I think I fixed that dumping Aero (or whatever you call the transparent desktop). I have not gotten the error since changing it. I still have gotten BLUE SCREENS in the last couple days. Also the Catalyst Control Center has died a few times. I updated to a Beta to see if that helps, it didn't. It has only crashed once in a day. I'm back on Chrome and it died on me a bit ago. Fluke or related?
When the blue screen hits I get a screen full of graphics artifacts and then to BLUE SCREEN. That leads me to believe there is a graphics card issue. I backed off the card overclocking which I have done nearly since I got it last year and it was in my old system. Temp was fine, it ran at 50 to 52, it is 49 right now.
Right now I'm scratching my head trying to track it down.
UPDATE: Odd shit going on. MSE would not complete a full scan without crashing. It may not be a Graphics Card (on topic mention) problem. I am doing many things. I uninstalled MSE and reinstalled, strange thing now is it is not going through files as fast. Before time wise it would be at about 500,000 scanned and crashing. After reinstall it is 16:30 in and at 92,000 files scanned.
The memory a few days ago I stepped up to spec, I backed it down. It is 2133 and I backed down to 18XX (forget exactly). No crash so far. Now MSE is flying through the files, 3 minutes later it has gotten to 340,000 files.
What I am doing as it runs is monitoring temps via CPUID. CPU is running at 100% and it is OCed to 4.204 and core temps now are bouncing 48 to 57 on one. The scan has gone 15 longer than before when it would crash. Maybe I'm okay now. Don't know why the Catalyst Control Panel died before unless it can't handle any instabilities and crashed before anything else would or the BSOD hit. That threw me off thinking a graphics card issue or graphics drivers due to it crashing. If the memory ends up being the problem I may need to look into some air hitting the memory...could put a filtered fan in the top of the case blowing down on it.
I'm at over 1,200,000 files scanned. Forgot I did not need to scan backed up files from my old systems drives. It is a good thing though, running the CPU at 100% for 38 minutes now and top temp on one core 58.
I had not used Firefox for a while, not at all on this system and since they'd come out with 20.01 I decided to give it a go. I get errors on it, but that may be related to Tab Mix Plus auto upgrading. Problems with it started the same day, but other problems started then too. Is it different issues or are they related? Have not figured that out.
I'm having to run my 6850 which is just a year old, sis bought it for me for my birthday last year when my 5770 died. That was this time of year, since my BD is May 4th and the card died just before it last year. ANYWAY...I was getting a message the Windows Desktop Manager stopped working and it was closed down. I think I fixed that dumping Aero (or whatever you call the transparent desktop). I have not gotten the error since changing it. I still have gotten BLUE SCREENS in the last couple days. Also the Catalyst Control Center has died a few times. I updated to a Beta to see if that helps, it didn't. It has only crashed once in a day. I'm back on Chrome and it died on me a bit ago. Fluke or related?
When the blue screen hits I get a screen full of graphics artifacts and then to BLUE SCREEN. That leads me to believe there is a graphics card issue. I backed off the card overclocking which I have done nearly since I got it last year and it was in my old system. Temp was fine, it ran at 50 to 52, it is 49 right now.
Right now I'm scratching my head trying to track it down.
UPDATE: Odd shit going on. MSE would not complete a full scan without crashing. It may not be a Graphics Card (on topic mention) problem. I am doing many things. I uninstalled MSE and reinstalled, strange thing now is it is not going through files as fast. Before time wise it would be at about 500,000 scanned and crashing. After reinstall it is 16:30 in and at 92,000 files scanned.
The memory a few days ago I stepped up to spec, I backed it down. It is 2133 and I backed down to 18XX (forget exactly). No crash so far. Now MSE is flying through the files, 3 minutes later it has gotten to 340,000 files.
What I am doing as it runs is monitoring temps via CPUID. CPU is running at 100% and it is OCed to 4.204 and core temps now are bouncing 48 to 57 on one. The scan has gone 15 longer than before when it would crash. Maybe I'm okay now. Don't know why the Catalyst Control Panel died before unless it can't handle any instabilities and crashed before anything else would or the BSOD hit. That threw me off thinking a graphics card issue or graphics drivers due to it crashing. If the memory ends up being the problem I may need to look into some air hitting the memory...could put a filtered fan in the top of the case blowing down on it.
I'm at over 1,200,000 files scanned. Forgot I did not need to scan backed up files from my old systems drives. It is a good thing though, running the CPU at 100% for 38 minutes now and top temp on one core 58.
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