Hi,
Problem:
I have a somewhat rare problem with a PC I built about 8 months ago completely locking up while playing games. It might happen twice in a day or it might happen twice in a month. My screen completely freezes on the last frame it was on and I'm forced to hold down to power button. In event viewer, the only error I see is the forced shutdown. The first freeze I recall is maybe a month or two after I built it and it has just been going on ever since because I have no idea how to fix it.
I don't play too many video games (maybe 5-6 hours a week). The only games it has happened in are Starcraft II, Diablo III, Path of Exile and Dota 2, but that is mostly what I play.
The testing software I have tried so far are:
BurnInTest
Performance Test64
Prime95 (6 hours)
FurMark (15 mins)
MemTest86 (2.5 hours)
So far I have gotten no errors from any of these tests.
I watched my temperatures while running the tests and also while playing games for a few hours and nothing ever seems to get too hot. Most temperatures don't go over 50-70 C while playing games and the hottest while running tests was 70-90 C.
I have also reinstalled windows, which didn't help seeing as it froze 3 days later.
I updated every driver I could think of, but that didn't seem to help either.
I just reseated and checked my connections in my case, but I haven't played anything yet.
My specs:
Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz 34 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-V LK (LGA1155) 25 °C
Graphics
VE248 (1920x1080@60Hz)
Acer V173 (1280x1024@60Hz)
2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti (Gigabyte) 27 °C
Hard Drives
466GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-00ERMA0 (SATA) 32 °C
112GB KINGSTON SH103S3120G (SSD) 25 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB
Audio
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
Software that is always running:
-Steam
-Skype
-Adobe Creative Cloud
-Spotify
-Display Fusion Pro
-AVG
-Evoluent Mouse Manager 4.0
Hardware that is always plugged:
-Seagate External Hard drive
-Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch Tablet
-SoundBlaster USB sound card
-Xbox 360 USB Controller
I'm sorry if I didn't provide the right information, but just let me know and I'll post it Thanks to anyone that can help.
Problem:
I have a somewhat rare problem with a PC I built about 8 months ago completely locking up while playing games. It might happen twice in a day or it might happen twice in a month. My screen completely freezes on the last frame it was on and I'm forced to hold down to power button. In event viewer, the only error I see is the forced shutdown. The first freeze I recall is maybe a month or two after I built it and it has just been going on ever since because I have no idea how to fix it.
I don't play too many video games (maybe 5-6 hours a week). The only games it has happened in are Starcraft II, Diablo III, Path of Exile and Dota 2, but that is mostly what I play.
The testing software I have tried so far are:
BurnInTest
Performance Test64
Prime95 (6 hours)
FurMark (15 mins)
MemTest86 (2.5 hours)
So far I have gotten no errors from any of these tests.
I watched my temperatures while running the tests and also while playing games for a few hours and nothing ever seems to get too hot. Most temperatures don't go over 50-70 C while playing games and the hottest while running tests was 70-90 C.
I have also reinstalled windows, which didn't help seeing as it froze 3 days later.
I updated every driver I could think of, but that didn't seem to help either.
I just reseated and checked my connections in my case, but I haven't played anything yet.
My specs:
Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz 34 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-V LK (LGA1155) 25 °C
Graphics
VE248 (1920x1080@60Hz)
Acer V173 (1280x1024@60Hz)
2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti (Gigabyte) 27 °C
Hard Drives
466GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-00ERMA0 (SATA) 32 °C
112GB KINGSTON SH103S3120G (SSD) 25 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB
Audio
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
Software that is always running:
-Steam
-Skype
-Adobe Creative Cloud
-Spotify
-Display Fusion Pro
-AVG
-Evoluent Mouse Manager 4.0
Hardware that is always plugged:
-Seagate External Hard drive
-Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch Tablet
-SoundBlaster USB sound card
-Xbox 360 USB Controller
I'm sorry if I didn't provide the right information, but just let me know and I'll post it Thanks to anyone that can help.
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