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Random Crashes/Freezes - Unstable

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Motherboard
Gigabyte Z77X-UP5-TH
CPU
Intel i7 3770K
Graphics
Nvidia GTX 670 X2
Mac
  1. MacBook Pro
Classic Mac
  1. 0
Mobile Phone
  1. iOS
Hello guys, I decided to build my first hack pro and I seemed to run into an issue. I am coming along a lot of crashes and freezes in which if I don't get it sorted soon I will have to revert back to a Win 7. Unfortunately I can't have this much down time as I am having at the moment.

Problem:
Randomly without warning I will get the grey box that tells me to hold the power button. This crash seems so happen with 0 notice or reason.
The second problem is the random freezes which cause me to restart. I have noticed this is caused by Silverlight, Firefox, Safari as of right now. There was also an issue with my USB Hub that was causing the computer to crash as well.
Specs

Intel i7 3770K
Cooler Master Silent Pro 850W
SanDisk SSD 240 GB
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5-TH
Corsair Vengeance 32GB
Logitech Keyboard K750
IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0
WD Blue 1TB Hardrive
(2) EVGA GeForce GTX 640


I keep trying to check the error logs but nothing comes back with much detail or help. I noticed that I lose the log infromation before the hard power off resets. The normal freezes are what made me somewhat figure out the other issues.

I followed all the multibeast information supplied for this hardware as well as the bios settings.

I hope someone can shed some light on this situation.

Thanks.
 
Most likely your GFX, try integrated for now using GraphicsEnabler=Yes
Are you SLI-ing your cards? i noticed the (2).
 
Thats a GT 6xx card, Aren't you supposed to do GraphicsEnabler=No ?
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GenerateCStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GeneratePStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>darkwake=0 PCIRootUID=0</string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>"1920x1080x32"</string>
<key>Instant Menu</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>8800000001000000010000007c0000000200000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000027fff0400100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a000000496e74656c20484420477261706869637320343030302c0000004100410050004c002c00690067002d0070006c006100740066006f0072006d002d006900640000000800000005006201</string>
<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>"Working"</string>
</dict>
</plist>
 
Just to give an update. I uninstalled Logitech Control Center yesterday and I have not received a crash/freeze since. I will continue to monitor and update this thread if this problem happens again.
 
I have 2 580GTX's and I don't think it makes any difference if you sli or not ... os x doesn't recognize it.
 
No hard crashes (grey screen of death) since I uninstalled Logitech Control Center so that is definitly the culprit. The only issue I am seeing now is this:

2/10/13 7:56:01.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF: 11508.280 [0xffffff803cf87600] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
2/10/13 7:56:01.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF: 11509.120 [0xffffff803cf87600] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 1 of Hub at 0x1a120000)
2/10/13 7:56:05.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF: 11512.519 [0xffffff803cf87600] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
2/10/13 7:56:05.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF: 11513.345 [0xffffff803cf87600] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 1 of Hub at 0x1a120000)
2/10/13 7:56:07.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF: 11514.177 [0xffffff803cf87600] The IOUSBFamily gave up enumerating a USB device after 10 retries. (Port 1 of Hub at 0x1a120000)
2/10/13 7:56:07.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF: 11514.177 [0xffffff803cf87600] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
2/10/13 7:57:03.432 PM com.apple.backupd-helper[595]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup - less than 10 minutes since last backup completed.

During this time my mouse/keyboard freezes for a few seconds and then comes back shortly after.
 
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