About a month ago, my computer started randomly freezing. It is weird to me because the reset button on the case also stops working, so I have to long hold down the power button for 5 seconds or so to have it turn off. It started off as a slight inconvenience every now and then but now it has gotten worse recently to where it will do it within a minute or two of turning on, or it may take an hour. It mainly does it while multitasking at the Desktop, but it will do it any time. It happened twice while in the BIOS, so no idea there. Temperatures are always lows for CPU(25-30C) when it freezes. Sometimes the sound playing will get stuck and loop until i turn it off.
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I have tried many things to find the problem, but no luck so far.
Clean install of Windows 8 - No luck
Check power connections and reseated GFX card, cleaned dust of of anything
Ran Memtest for 15 passes overnight - No errors
Took out GFX card and ran off of motherboard - had some weird issues with flashing colors on screen and locking up, but after getting to desktop it still froze pretty quickly.
Ran it with single stick of ram - Still freeze
?????
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I am out of ideas of what to do next. I am thinking the issue is either Motherboard related or CPU related, but no way to be sure. The issue with reset button not working has me confused the most. I did some research on here and with google, but some of the stuff I found was close, but didn't solve the issue.
So I am here now hoping someone has some knowledge on what it going on.
Thanks.
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Specs:
3570k @4GHZ
Coolermaster V6GT Heatsink
Asrock Z77 Extreme 4
8GB Patriot Ram
Corsair TX650
MSI GTX 660Ti
160GB Intel SSD / 80GB Intel SSD / 1TB Caviar Black
Bluray Drive
Windows 8
Wifi pci express card( I use direct ethernet now)
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I have tried many things to find the problem, but no luck so far.
Clean install of Windows 8 - No luck
Check power connections and reseated GFX card, cleaned dust of of anything
Ran Memtest for 15 passes overnight - No errors
Took out GFX card and ran off of motherboard - had some weird issues with flashing colors on screen and locking up, but after getting to desktop it still froze pretty quickly.
Ran it with single stick of ram - Still freeze
?????
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I am out of ideas of what to do next. I am thinking the issue is either Motherboard related or CPU related, but no way to be sure. The issue with reset button not working has me confused the most. I did some research on here and with google, but some of the stuff I found was close, but didn't solve the issue.
So I am here now hoping someone has some knowledge on what it going on.
Thanks.
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Specs:
3570k @4GHZ
Coolermaster V6GT Heatsink
Asrock Z77 Extreme 4
8GB Patriot Ram
Corsair TX650
MSI GTX 660Ti
160GB Intel SSD / 80GB Intel SSD / 1TB Caviar Black
Bluray Drive
Windows 8
Wifi pci express card( I use direct ethernet now)