Hi guys, I'm at a loss as to what's wrong with my computer and I'm hoping someone here can help point me in the right direction. Problem: computer hangs and crashes after roughly 45 minutes to 1 hour. No bsod, just kind of stops working. No indication whatsoever that it has crashed, other than that all programs stop working. CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work and I end up having to do a hard reboot.
I've run a number of diagnostic programs to see what might be causing the problem.
CrystalDiskInfo says the health status of the SSD and my secondary 1TB hard drive are both good with temperatures running more or less at 30C.
I've run Windows 8's memory test and it showed that there were no issues with my memory.
After keeping an eye on my temperatures using Core Temp and CPUID HWMonitor, my cores are around sub 40C up until the point it crashes.
Graphics card also sub 40C up to the point it crashes.
I read somewhere to check the +12V on my motherboard and Piriform Speccy shows that it's 12.184 V (which IIRC is okay).
**EDIT**
Ran Memtest86, showed that my memory was fine
re-clocked my RAM to 9-9-9-24 @1600MHz as was suggested (DRAM frequency on CPU-Z still shows 796 MHz but I think that's to be expected?)
Updated bios and all drivers, turned off power saving settings, still no good
**/EDIT**
As far as troubleshooting directly with the hardware I haven't done much of it (since I'm not really sure what to look for). I've tried re-seating each stick of RAM to make sure that it's in securely and it's fine. Did a quick look at the motherboard, nothing looks weird or smells different to my untrained eye.
I haven't tried a stress test to see if that's the reason, but regardless of the load I put on my computer it will freeze/crash at around 45 minutes to an hour. Sometimes if I'm just sitting there browsing the same website it won't really be noticeable, but when I focus on a different program or tab it will start to freeze and I'll have to do a hard reset.
I've tried reformatting my system but no luck, same issues.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I'll list my system specs below:
OS: Windows 8 Pro 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07 GHz
RAM: 24 GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 530 MHz (7-7-7-19)
Mobo: EVGA X58 SLI FTW3 (Socket 423)
GFX: 1024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (EVGA)
HDD: 932GB Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 (SATA)
119GB M4-CT128 M4 SSD2 (SSD) (my OS boots off this)
Cooling: Corsair H50
PSU: Corsair TX650M
***EDIT***
Here are some screenshots of what my CPU-Z looks like. Is there anything wrong with it?
***/EDIT***
I've run a number of diagnostic programs to see what might be causing the problem.
CrystalDiskInfo says the health status of the SSD and my secondary 1TB hard drive are both good with temperatures running more or less at 30C.
I've run Windows 8's memory test and it showed that there were no issues with my memory.
After keeping an eye on my temperatures using Core Temp and CPUID HWMonitor, my cores are around sub 40C up until the point it crashes.
Graphics card also sub 40C up to the point it crashes.
I read somewhere to check the +12V on my motherboard and Piriform Speccy shows that it's 12.184 V (which IIRC is okay).
**EDIT**
Ran Memtest86, showed that my memory was fine
re-clocked my RAM to 9-9-9-24 @1600MHz as was suggested (DRAM frequency on CPU-Z still shows 796 MHz but I think that's to be expected?)
Updated bios and all drivers, turned off power saving settings, still no good
**/EDIT**
As far as troubleshooting directly with the hardware I haven't done much of it (since I'm not really sure what to look for). I've tried re-seating each stick of RAM to make sure that it's in securely and it's fine. Did a quick look at the motherboard, nothing looks weird or smells different to my untrained eye.
I haven't tried a stress test to see if that's the reason, but regardless of the load I put on my computer it will freeze/crash at around 45 minutes to an hour. Sometimes if I'm just sitting there browsing the same website it won't really be noticeable, but when I focus on a different program or tab it will start to freeze and I'll have to do a hard reset.
I've tried reformatting my system but no luck, same issues.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I'll list my system specs below:
OS: Windows 8 Pro 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07 GHz
RAM: 24 GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 530 MHz (7-7-7-19)
Mobo: EVGA X58 SLI FTW3 (Socket 423)
GFX: 1024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (EVGA)
HDD: 932GB Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 (SATA)
119GB M4-CT128 M4 SSD2 (SSD) (my OS boots off this)
Cooling: Corsair H50
PSU: Corsair TX650M
***EDIT***
Here are some screenshots of what my CPU-Z looks like. Is there anything wrong with it?
***/EDIT***
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