Computer freezing issue requiring hard restart..

hotlanta22

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Of the 4 games I have been playing 2 are working fine while the other 2 freeze up within the first 2 minutes of playing requiring a hard restart. Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2 are working fine and I can play them for hours..........StarCraft 2 and SWTOR, which I just installed again to try out the new expansion, both freeze my computer within the first 2 minutes of play. StarCraft had been working fine up until yesterday but now it's every game I attempt it will freeze up.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Specs

i5-3570k at stock speed for the moment
Asrock z77 Extreme 4
8gb Corsair 1600
PNY GTX 680 314.22 drivers
240 gb ssd OCZ Agility 3
500gb Samsumg spinpoint
PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 750W
 

lovesX79

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Your i5-3570K was over clocked to ?? and was it the stock cooler? How hot is the room the computer is in? Do you have more than 2 case fans? I think your problem is processor heat and maybe GPU over heating or both. I'd do this get the best heat compound you can afford for the processor and also look into a BIG after market cooler if it still freezes. You may want to put in more case fans high air flow.
 

hotlanta22

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My temps seem fine. I have the CM 212 for the cooler. Again, Borderlands 2 works fine running at 1440p, same with Torchlight 2. SWTOR and StarCraft will freeze within 2 minutes before there could even be a heat problem.
 

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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Randomly Freezes
No BSOD just random freezes with screen on and no keys or cursor repsond, all I can do is use a hard reset to restart. Then I get the standard windows was not shut down properly messege at start-up. I have been having this issue/s and have tried all the same standard help people have had to offer, in all the dfferent post I've read online.
To actually fix this issue I ended up having to go to the device manager and check for driver updates on all my devices, one at a time. I think the ones that had updates that fixed this issue were the ACPIx64-based PC under the computer drop down and the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers especially the ICH ATA and SATA AHCI ontrollers (I think these made the difference). I checked them all, but these were the only ones that had updates. Once those were updated and the computer was restarted, it has stayed on. It's been on for a day now and no problems so far.