Trying to wrestle my new PC into some semblence of working order, and seriously, I'm not having much fucking success. I mean, it works, sort of. But not really. Most annoyingly, windows desktop screen updates (along with USB input) irregularly freezes for no apparent reason, sometimes for upwards of 30 seconds or so, I haven't timed it. Most of the time it's only hitching for a second or two, or three or four, and the mouse pointer may reappear in some completely different place once the system unfreezes again.
It doesn't seem to affect the rest of the system; programs seem to continue to run in the background without interruption. Also, behavior seems constrained to the windows desktop only (ran 3DMark several different tests of several different runs completely unaffected.) It all seems to have started with installing latest Radeon graphics driver, as prior to that I did not notice any odd behavior. Could be a driver software glitch, who knows.
If I run OCCT Linpack test (non-AVX version) it errors out after 1 minute 11 or 12 seconds consistently every time. But AVX version (which runs much hotter) I have run for over 30 minutes no problems.
So I thought, it's the XMP memory profile causing problems because I'm populating all DIMM slots with 3600MHz RAM. Grumblingly set clocks down to stock, ran test again. Errors out at 1m11s again. That shouldn't be fucking possible. No way should it hit the same point in a memory stress test regardless of memory speed!
Shrugged, set DIMMs back up again to full speed.
Also had problems with Prime95 benchmark crashing at some point for me, it runs for quite a while, and then the whole program would die with windows giving the standard, non-helpful "Prime95 has stopped working. You will be notified if a solution has been found" - which I will certainly NOT be! lol This happened several times.
Ran the benchmark once more with stock RAM speed settings, it completed all the way through (took about 3 hours 40 minutes, hurg.) Then I ran the test yet again at XMP speed overnight, and it completed. So now I don't know what is what, really.
Decided to try out Intel's Turbo Boost 3.0 driver thing. Not sure what it's supposed to do - if anything at all really. I figured, since my CPU won't turbo up higher than 4GHz even on low-core loads maybe that's what's missing. So I right-click the .inf, it says success, reboot....and nothing. It's not installed, the program group it's supposed to create doesn't exist, and there's no change in system behavior. It can't be uninstalled either...probably because it doesn't actually exist in the first place.
/golfclap, Intel. *sigh*
I check Device Manager again, trying to think of something to do about the not-working turbo boost thing. There's three High Definition Audio devices listed, even though there's only one actual sound chip on this mobo. One of the devices has a yellow exclamation mark on it, and it can't be made to go away. Updating its drivers doesn't do anything because it already has the proper driver, and uninstalling it just makes it come back again on next reboot.
There's a lot other duplicate devices in device manager. There's eight instances of "Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor P family/Core i7 CBDMA Registers 2021"; I've no idea if that is really intended or not. There's also a full ten copies of "Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor P family/Core i7 CHA Registers - 208D" and another ten of "Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor P family/Core i7 CHA Registers - 208E".
There's duplicates of a lot of other stuff too. DECS Channel 2 - 2048 x2 (along with at least a dozen other items also in duplicate), VT-D - 2034 and IOxAPIC Configuration Registers - 2036 has three copies. M2PCI Registers - 2018 appears four times.
...And no, before anyone asks, I don't own any cat. Or any pets actually, no devil budgie giving my PC the evil eye or such.
Btw, let me just say this: FUCK PCs, alright?!
Fucking piece of shit architecture. Fucking piece of shit software. Fuck it all, fuck it some more, smash it to bits with hammers, set it on fire, fuck the ashes.
It doesn't seem to affect the rest of the system; programs seem to continue to run in the background without interruption. Also, behavior seems constrained to the windows desktop only (ran 3DMark several different tests of several different runs completely unaffected.) It all seems to have started with installing latest Radeon graphics driver, as prior to that I did not notice any odd behavior. Could be a driver software glitch, who knows.
If I run OCCT Linpack test (non-AVX version) it errors out after 1 minute 11 or 12 seconds consistently every time. But AVX version (which runs much hotter) I have run for over 30 minutes no problems.
So I thought, it's the XMP memory profile causing problems because I'm populating all DIMM slots with 3600MHz RAM. Grumblingly set clocks down to stock, ran test again. Errors out at 1m11s again. That shouldn't be fucking possible. No way should it hit the same point in a memory stress test regardless of memory speed!
Shrugged, set DIMMs back up again to full speed.
Also had problems with Prime95 benchmark crashing at some point for me, it runs for quite a while, and then the whole program would die with windows giving the standard, non-helpful "Prime95 has stopped working. You will be notified if a solution has been found" - which I will certainly NOT be! lol This happened several times.
Ran the benchmark once more with stock RAM speed settings, it completed all the way through (took about 3 hours 40 minutes, hurg.) Then I ran the test yet again at XMP speed overnight, and it completed. So now I don't know what is what, really.
Decided to try out Intel's Turbo Boost 3.0 driver thing. Not sure what it's supposed to do - if anything at all really. I figured, since my CPU won't turbo up higher than 4GHz even on low-core loads maybe that's what's missing. So I right-click the .inf, it says success, reboot....and nothing. It's not installed, the program group it's supposed to create doesn't exist, and there's no change in system behavior. It can't be uninstalled either...probably because it doesn't actually exist in the first place.
/golfclap, Intel. *sigh*
I check Device Manager again, trying to think of something to do about the not-working turbo boost thing. There's three High Definition Audio devices listed, even though there's only one actual sound chip on this mobo. One of the devices has a yellow exclamation mark on it, and it can't be made to go away. Updating its drivers doesn't do anything because it already has the proper driver, and uninstalling it just makes it come back again on next reboot.
There's a lot other duplicate devices in device manager. There's eight instances of "Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor P family/Core i7 CBDMA Registers 2021"; I've no idea if that is really intended or not. There's also a full ten copies of "Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor P family/Core i7 CHA Registers - 208D" and another ten of "Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor P family/Core i7 CHA Registers - 208E".
There's duplicates of a lot of other stuff too. DECS Channel 2 - 2048 x2 (along with at least a dozen other items also in duplicate), VT-D - 2034 and IOxAPIC Configuration Registers - 2036 has three copies. M2PCI Registers - 2018 appears four times.
...And no, before anyone asks, I don't own any cat. Or any pets actually, no devil budgie giving my PC the evil eye or such.
Btw, let me just say this: FUCK PCs, alright?!
Fucking piece of shit architecture. Fucking piece of shit software. Fuck it all, fuck it some more, smash it to bits with hammers, set it on fire, fuck the ashes.
I just get frustrated when things don't want to cooperate, that's all... Besides, we wouldn't want to risk harming your cute lil pussycat now would we?!