Recently I've built a computer with the help of a friend who knows a lot more about computers than I do. It's a rig designed for gaming and it's able to do what it was built for, but the problem with the computer is that it either freezes or shuts off fairly often. When I first built the computer (a few days ago) my friend and I seemed to have found that the problem was actually that two of my audio drivers were conflicting with one another to cause the crashes (Kernel Error 41 or something like that).
But even after disabling one of the drivers and trying the other it hasn't seemed to work, the computer will still either freeze or shut off. I started to think that it might've been a problem overheating like with my CPU or GPU but I've been watching the temperatures of the computer with SpeedFan (I know it's generally thought of as unreliable) and the temperatures don't seem to correlate with the freezes/shutoffs because there were times where it'd shut off while I'd just have a small amount of programs up (Skype, Steam, Firefox/Chrome). It is worth mention that I have a stock heat sink for my CPU and only one fan though. Whenever I saw that the temperatures were getting to be 45C+ I'd lightly touch the computer where the CPU is closest and it'd feel warm to the touch, and that's with the half-inch gap between the case wall and the motherboard. Even when the CPU and GPU were running hot any other vents were blowing cold air.
Honestly I don't know what else to think. The only other things worth mention are that on 2 or 3 occasions the speakers made a loud buzzing noise during the freeze. Also when I booted the computer when I woke up this morning the picture was shifted about an inch to the left of the screen and was frozen.
I'm running Windows 7 (64bit) and here are my parts:
-AMD FX-6300 Six-Core Processor (3.50 GHz)
-Gigabyte 970A-UD3 Motherboard
-Corsair 500W CX500 R PSU
-Crucial Ballistix Sport XT (2x4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 Memory
-PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 GPU
-Western Digital WD10EZEX DX5854 1 59.98 1TB SATA III 3.5" HDD
But even after disabling one of the drivers and trying the other it hasn't seemed to work, the computer will still either freeze or shut off. I started to think that it might've been a problem overheating like with my CPU or GPU but I've been watching the temperatures of the computer with SpeedFan (I know it's generally thought of as unreliable) and the temperatures don't seem to correlate with the freezes/shutoffs because there were times where it'd shut off while I'd just have a small amount of programs up (Skype, Steam, Firefox/Chrome). It is worth mention that I have a stock heat sink for my CPU and only one fan though. Whenever I saw that the temperatures were getting to be 45C+ I'd lightly touch the computer where the CPU is closest and it'd feel warm to the touch, and that's with the half-inch gap between the case wall and the motherboard. Even when the CPU and GPU were running hot any other vents were blowing cold air.
Honestly I don't know what else to think. The only other things worth mention are that on 2 or 3 occasions the speakers made a loud buzzing noise during the freeze. Also when I booted the computer when I woke up this morning the picture was shifted about an inch to the left of the screen and was frozen.
I'm running Windows 7 (64bit) and here are my parts:
-AMD FX-6300 Six-Core Processor (3.50 GHz)
-Gigabyte 970A-UD3 Motherboard
-Corsair 500W CX500 R PSU
-Crucial Ballistix Sport XT (2x4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 Memory
-PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 GPU
-Western Digital WD10EZEX DX5854 1 59.98 1TB SATA III 3.5" HDD
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