computer randomly rebooting no bsod but with a bios error message

[stoggs1]

Hey guys, ok I have been having an issue with my pc. for the past 3 weeks it has rebooted itself without warning. It has done this a total of 3 times with no blue screen but I am getting a bios error message which reads. 927-non fatal FSB error F7Eerr: detected MCERR from a processor.

2 of the 3 times it done this is when I was playing fallout 3 heavily modded but 1 time it did when my system was idle. I plan on running memtest over night later on this evening but I ran it a couple of months ago with no errors(i usually run it every once in a while overnight or during the day for a few hours just as basic maintenance)

My full specs are an hp xw 8600 workstation motherboard, 8 gigs of ddr2 ram, a gtx 960, 2 hard drives one is 640 gb the other is 1 tb, audigy sound blaster sound card. 800 watt server psu and a standard ide DVD-RW drive.

Other than running memtest what would be the next course of action in troubleshooting? If memtest passes what else can cause an issue like this?

any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

 

[jsfitz54]

See this article first: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01111805

I suspect this: "A hardware timing issue renders them incompatible."

Try a different graphics card.

 

[stoggs1]

So my graphics card won't work with my pc? I've had my 960 since September and it just started doing this the past cpl of weeks before that I've had no issues with my pc.

I forgot to add the first time it rebooted there was no error code, it only threw the code when I was playing fallout 3.

I still have my 570 laying around I could try that. But I don't understand why this issue is affecting me now since my system worked perfectly fine for 2 months.

 

[jsfitz54]

SO... you must have changed something. Hardware? Nvidia Driver?
Try going back to an earlier driver. Clean driver install or not?
Perhaps you are bottlenecking old hardware?

but 1 time it did when my system was idle

Can you do other tasks ok, or is it just a problem gaming or right after gaming?

 

[stoggs1]

The only game that my pc crashed when I was playing was fallout 3. A few weeks ago I was able to play cod ghost and battlefield 3 mp perfectly fine sometimes for hours.

The only game I've been playing for the past cpl of weeks had been fallout 3 I want to play through b4 I pick up 4.

 

[jsfitz54]

I was playing fallout 3 heavily modded

So this would then indicate that the game is to blame.

You have not given anyone much to go on.

 

[stoggs1]

Ok but y would it also crash when it was idle? The first time it crashed I just powered it on from a cold boot I walked away from my pc for about 10 to 15 minutes and when I came back it had crashed and restarted itself but there was no error messages in the bios at that time.

Now 1 thing I forgot to mention and I do apologize for it about a month ago my pc crashed with a bsod with an nv4 display driver error.

Now I didn't update my drivers til after the random restarts started happening. And when I did I made sure to delete every piece of nvidia software off my pc and started it all fresh.

This is issue is driving me up a wall I have never had an issue like this b4 with a compute

And a cpl of days ago I was able to play fallout 3 for hrs with no crashing.

 

[95Viper]

Try reseating the memory, the graphics card, and sound card.
Try resetting the bios and checking your bios settings, again.
Make sure you are using the latest bios.

HP xw8600 Workstation System BIOS

 

[jsfitz54]

What Bios version are you using? See this page: http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=3432830&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4059

No one else has responded to you today because you keep feeding small amounts of additional info that you should have been upfront about from the start.

How old are you?

It appears that you are trolling.

 

[stoggs1]

I'm at work posting from my phone, I'm not trolling. I've only been able to make small quick post. I'm running the 1.46 bios for my motherboard and I moved my graphics card to the bottom PCI x slot in my system last week when I removed and re installed all my drivers.


Il reseat the ram and my sound card and see if that helps but what about the CPUs though? Would that help anything? And if re seating all my hardware doesn't work what should I try next?

I tried running the default settings for the bios and that didn't help, I also turned off the overclock I had on the gpu that didn't help either.

Also how could I make my pc bsod instead of just rebooting so I can the error code from windows?

 

[95Viper]

Also how could I make my pc bsod instead of just rebooting so I can the error code from windows?

How to disable automatic system restart on system failure in windows 8, 7, vista, XP

 

[stoggs1]

Ok what I'm goin to do is buy some air duster and rubbing alchohal give my system a good cleaning when I re seat everything, run mem test and some anti virus software.

And disable automatic restart and other than theses steps what else should I try?