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Hey. Can anyone help me find the cause of this problem? Windows freezing. Frickin' Windows freezing!!
Here are my specs:
PSU: 1,250watt Coolermaster
Motherboard: EVGA 780i NVidia
CPU: Q6600 Intel quad core
RAM: 2*2GB (4GB) 800Mhz Corsair XMS with heatsinks
GPU: XFX Geforce 9800GX2
Sound: Creative X-Fi PCI card
OS HD: Maxtor 500GB Sata
OS: Vista 64 Ultimate
Info:
- CPU temps idle at around 35'C.
- GPU used to idle at 80'C! The card's pretty hot though, one of the hottest there is I think. I took the thing apart today, put new artic silver thermal paste on the chips, cleared all the dust out of the heatsink and all of that. Temps are lower now.
- Games play fine, Windows runs fine. No crashes, no blue screens, no problems at all really, apart from the occasional freeze!
- Passes Prime95 torture tests every time with 0 errors, 0 warnings.
- All parts are about 1.5 years old.
- No viruses. (According to Kaspersky.) But I'm pretty careful anyway.
- No overclocking.
The freeze:
- Seems to happen randomly. Usually happens after a good few hours of use.
- Most of the time I can go 24 hours without a freeze. Although sometimes it happens after 2 hours or so after turning on the computer or restarting.
- When it freezes: All animation stops, all sound stops, mouse freezes, keyboard wont respond...all at the same time. I've tried waiting like 10 minutes or so, tried getting into the task manager or getting anything to respond, but it just stays frozen. It's like someone came over and just hit the PAUSE button (if there were such a thing).
- No error reports in Windows, nothing in the event log, no nothing. Obviously Windows reports that it wasn't shut down properly next time I reload, but that can be expected. No indication of any kind as to why it happens!
Thanks for any help you guys (or gals) can provide.
Here are my specs:
PSU: 1,250watt Coolermaster
Motherboard: EVGA 780i NVidia
CPU: Q6600 Intel quad core
RAM: 2*2GB (4GB) 800Mhz Corsair XMS with heatsinks
GPU: XFX Geforce 9800GX2
Sound: Creative X-Fi PCI card
OS HD: Maxtor 500GB Sata
OS: Vista 64 Ultimate
Info:
- CPU temps idle at around 35'C.
- GPU used to idle at 80'C! The card's pretty hot though, one of the hottest there is I think. I took the thing apart today, put new artic silver thermal paste on the chips, cleared all the dust out of the heatsink and all of that. Temps are lower now.
- Games play fine, Windows runs fine. No crashes, no blue screens, no problems at all really, apart from the occasional freeze!
- Passes Prime95 torture tests every time with 0 errors, 0 warnings.
- All parts are about 1.5 years old.
- No viruses. (According to Kaspersky.) But I'm pretty careful anyway.
- No overclocking.
The freeze:
- Seems to happen randomly. Usually happens after a good few hours of use.
- Most of the time I can go 24 hours without a freeze. Although sometimes it happens after 2 hours or so after turning on the computer or restarting.
- When it freezes: All animation stops, all sound stops, mouse freezes, keyboard wont respond...all at the same time. I've tried waiting like 10 minutes or so, tried getting into the task manager or getting anything to respond, but it just stays frozen. It's like someone came over and just hit the PAUSE button (if there were such a thing).
- No error reports in Windows, nothing in the event log, no nothing. Obviously Windows reports that it wasn't shut down properly next time I reload, but that can be expected. No indication of any kind as to why it happens!
Thanks for any help you guys (or gals) can provide.