I Have No Idea How To Solve This..

Fernando Valdivia

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I feel bad for joining a website to ask a question but I feel as if I have no where else to turn and I have no idea how to approach this problem. For about 2 months now my computer will randomly freak out. My sound will start to distort and my inputs (Mouse and keyboard) will start to lag. When I try to shut off the computer from the start menu, it'll start shutting down then it'll just freeze. I'm thinking it might be my SSD since I bought it refurbished but I really don't know how I can scope out the source of the problem. I've been monitoring my computer's temperatures and it's not anything overheating, I think. What information can I give to maybe help figure this really pesky problem out? It happens a couple times a day and I'm bummed out because of how much money I've put into my computer just to see it start failing so soon.

Some quick info about the computer:
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Ocz Vertex 3 SSD
16 Gigs of 1866 ram but for some reason I can't clock it past 14??.
Asus Saber motherboard I believe, don't know the name off the top of my head.
 
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Your video card is always overclocked? Is that its default speed setting or are you overclocking beyond "out of the box"? When you run speccy (from piriform.com) what does it say about your memory? Looking for a manufacturer and more to look it up.

bigwoofer

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I bet it's the power supply when so many components are suspect. Since you have a ridiculous amount of ram (I'm just jealous even though for me it would only be used for bragging rights, not actual performance) I would run with 1 stick and see if it misbehaves. If it does, swap it for another stick. Test.
 

Fernando Valdivia

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I have about 750w of power. The 6900 graphics cards are a bit of a power hog so maybe it is that? However, the power supply is about a year older than the rest of my computer, aside from the rather old graphics card too.

It really might be an OC issue now that you mention it. There have been a couple times where OC has failed on start-up and I get an error message. I recently set everything to optimized defaults on my bios, hoping that would fix the issue. It hasn't.. My graphics card is also pretty much always OC'd.. Though I'm not sure if it's really a card issue since games still run at good FPS even when the sound of death starts playing.

Maybe it's because the ram was designed for intel? Could that be why it never clocks past the 1433 or whatever it's awkwardly stuck at; and the RAM was a birthday present from a buddy of mine :p.

 

bigwoofer

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Your video card is always overclocked? Is that its default speed setting or are you overclocking beyond "out of the box"? When you run speccy (from piriform.com) what does it say about your memory? Looking for a manufacturer and more to look it up.
 
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