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. If I don't, my computer eventually reboots itself and gives me an error before entering windows 8: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK
I've run a number of diagnostic programs to see what might be causing the problem.
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 @ 1600 MHz (9-9-9-24)
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
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. SSD-Life also shows my SSD is at 100%.
■ I've run Windows 8's memory test and it showed that there were no issues with my memory. Memtest86 also shows that my memory is fine.
■ 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).
■ Updated bios and all drivers, turned off power saving settings, still no good
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 @ 1600 MHz (9-9-9-24)
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
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