Well, I've been at it for a few days now. Been building machines for the better part of 15 years, and have NEVER had a machine give me the kind of grief this one is. This was going to be my file server, and dedicated streaming rig.
Machine specs:
Issue:
I first built the machine this past weekend. Installed W8.1 off of a USB stick. Once I started installing the drivers, when I got to the nVidia drivers, the machine would either hard-lock, or power-cycle itself. I figured there was an issue with the particular drivers I was trying to install, and tried three other versions. I was finally able to install all drivers, chipset, etc. Then did my usual overnight burn-in test I do will all new machines, I let AIDA64 run through the night to stress the CPU, and RAM.
I woke up to the system humming along. At this point I figured it was stable. I started installing all the programs I needed to use, and configuring them. Then in the middle of setting up OBS, bam! The system power-cycles itself. It would go on to continue to power-cycle, or hard-lock, causing me to hit the reset button.
I get it back onto the desktop, and the first thing I always do when systems start acting up is check the Event Logs. No memory dump, and a generic system power loss. One thing I did find interesting, is that with each log entry right before the "critical", or "error", there was always a "warning" that said, "The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load for the device ACPI\PNP0A0A\2&daba3ff&2". Everytime. I Googled that error up, and down, and there were no consistent results.
I started trying different things, such as updating the BIOS. Now at this point I feel I should mention, I overnighted another H87M-Pro, because originally when I first started seeing issues, I thought I had a bad board. So I was going to RMA one, build with the new one, and when I got the RMA back, sell it. I had the EXACT same issue with BOTH boards, and multiple different BIOS versions. After reformatting a few times, the system seems to be getting worse, now I can't even finish installing Windows 7, or 8.1 without the system hard-locking in the middle of the install! Yet, I can it can, and just did, sit next to me for over an hour running memtest86+ with no issue. Then I go to install the OS again, and BAM, hard-lock. I'm all out of ideas. I'm turning it over the [H].
Conclusion:
This machine is acting worse than a troubled child on crack. Maybe a sledge hammer will work...
Machine specs:
- Asus H87M-PRO
- i7-4770 (Cooled with a Noctua cooler) @ Stock
- x4 2GB Corsair DIMMS (8GB total) @ Stock
- nVidia GT 610
- Elgato HD 60 Pro capture card
- Samsung SSD
- Western Digital Blue (Storage)
Issue:
I first built the machine this past weekend. Installed W8.1 off of a USB stick. Once I started installing the drivers, when I got to the nVidia drivers, the machine would either hard-lock, or power-cycle itself. I figured there was an issue with the particular drivers I was trying to install, and tried three other versions. I was finally able to install all drivers, chipset, etc. Then did my usual overnight burn-in test I do will all new machines, I let AIDA64 run through the night to stress the CPU, and RAM.
I woke up to the system humming along. At this point I figured it was stable. I started installing all the programs I needed to use, and configuring them. Then in the middle of setting up OBS, bam! The system power-cycles itself. It would go on to continue to power-cycle, or hard-lock, causing me to hit the reset button.
I get it back onto the desktop, and the first thing I always do when systems start acting up is check the Event Logs. No memory dump, and a generic system power loss. One thing I did find interesting, is that with each log entry right before the "critical", or "error", there was always a "warning" that said, "The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load for the device ACPI\PNP0A0A\2&daba3ff&2". Everytime. I Googled that error up, and down, and there were no consistent results.
I started trying different things, such as updating the BIOS. Now at this point I feel I should mention, I overnighted another H87M-Pro, because originally when I first started seeing issues, I thought I had a bad board. So I was going to RMA one, build with the new one, and when I got the RMA back, sell it. I had the EXACT same issue with BOTH boards, and multiple different BIOS versions. After reformatting a few times, the system seems to be getting worse, now I can't even finish installing Windows 7, or 8.1 without the system hard-locking in the middle of the install! Yet, I can it can, and just did, sit next to me for over an hour running memtest86+ with no issue. Then I go to install the OS again, and BAM, hard-lock. I'm all out of ideas. I'm turning it over the [H].
Conclusion:
This machine is acting worse than a troubled child on crack. Maybe a sledge hammer will work...