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Satvik · Dec 31, 2012, 01:24 AM

Hey all,

I've been having some peculiar issues with my current system. During gameplay of any Steam game, or games like Planetside 2 and Hawken, I freeze and the crash. A static noise comes from my speakers, and if I was in a Skype call, those in the all hear it as well. Afterwards, if I'm choose to open a browser, or even open Steam, the page is very glitchy, with static-ish pixels appearing on the screen. It's unresponsive.

The strange thing is that I've swapped my Galaxy GTX 560 Ti BF3 Edition card with an old GTS 450 by EVGA in there, and the same thing has happened! I've tried 310.70 Beta/WHQL, 306.97, and 306.23 for drivers, but to no avail. I've narrowed this down to some other software issue, or a motherboard issue. Before I RMA through Amazon to ASRock, I'd like to see every possible solution possible.

Help?

PC Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 965BE Deneb @ 3.5Ghz,

ASRock Extreme3 990FX Motherboard

Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4) LP Memory @ 1600Mhz

Kingwin Lazer 1000W PSU

Dec 31, 2012, 01:24 AM	#1
Satvik Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5 (0.04/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	ASRock Extreme3 990Fx Crashing Issues Hey all, I've been having some peculiar issues with my current system. During gameplay of any Steam game, or games like Planetside 2 and Hawken, I freeze and the crash. A static noise comes from my speakers, and if I was in a Skype call, those in the all hear it as well. Afterwards, if I'm choose to open a browser, or even open Steam, the page is very glitchy, with static-ish pixels appearing on the screen. It's unresponsive. The strange thing is that I've swapped my Galaxy GTX 560 Ti BF3 Edition card with an old GTS 450 by EVGA in there, and the same thing has happened! I've tried 310.70 Beta/WHQL, 306.97, and 306.23 for drivers, but to no avail. I've narrowed this down to some other software issue, or a motherboard issue. Before I RMA through Amazon to ASRock, I'd like to see every possible solution possible. Help? PC Specs: AMD Phenom II X4 965BE Deneb @ 3.5Ghz, ASRock Extreme3 990FX Motherboard Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4) LP Memory @ 1600Mhz Kingwin Lazer 1000W PSU