So ever since I updated from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 (as a gift), I've been getting somewhat frequent lock ups. Sometimes I can go a few days without getting one, with the most frequent being an hour apart. It also seems mostly random, with the only common occurrence being when I load a BF4 map or when I alt tab out of a game (both have happened twice so far).
What happens though is my screen will freeze at whatever I was doing last, my mouse and keyboard become unresponsive, my HDD light goes solid, but my case fans/lights keep going. Also whats weird is that my power button also becomes unresponsive, forcing me to reboot via psu or unplugging it.
This was basically a clean install (I assume, had to reinstall all my games/programs), only preserving pictures and documents from before the update.
Even though the computer is kind of old (4-5 years) it runs smoothly except for these freezes. My temperatures for my GPU/CPU never exceed 50-60C, and all my drivers are up to date.
Just some side notes:
-This isn't entirely a "new" problem. I've had these kinds of crashes in the past with Windows 7, though it was on very rare occasions, something like once every 4 months or something (if that) if I had to guess. Since updating to Windows 8.1, the frequency of the crashes is way higher (few times a week).
-Recently replaced my PSU due to my old one failing little over a month ago. Don't believe the crashes are related to that simply because it ran flawlessly all of December with Windows 7 before upgrading to Windows 8.1 a week ago.
-Ruled out my HDD (I think anyway). I ran WinDlg 124, Western Digitals diagnostic for their HDDs and passed. Also ran CHKDSK as well with 0 bad sectors too. Open to trying another program if those are believed to not be reliable.
Thanks in advance for any asssitance
What happens though is my screen will freeze at whatever I was doing last, my mouse and keyboard become unresponsive, my HDD light goes solid, but my case fans/lights keep going. Also whats weird is that my power button also becomes unresponsive, forcing me to reboot via psu or unplugging it.
This was basically a clean install (I assume, had to reinstall all my games/programs), only preserving pictures and documents from before the update.
Even though the computer is kind of old (4-5 years) it runs smoothly except for these freezes. My temperatures for my GPU/CPU never exceed 50-60C, and all my drivers are up to date.
Just some side notes:
-This isn't entirely a "new" problem. I've had these kinds of crashes in the past with Windows 7, though it was on very rare occasions, something like once every 4 months or something (if that) if I had to guess. Since updating to Windows 8.1, the frequency of the crashes is way higher (few times a week).
-Recently replaced my PSU due to my old one failing little over a month ago. Don't believe the crashes are related to that simply because it ran flawlessly all of December with Windows 7 before upgrading to Windows 8.1 a week ago.
-Ruled out my HDD (I think anyway). I ran WinDlg 124, Western Digitals diagnostic for their HDDs and passed. Also ran CHKDSK as well with 0 bad sectors too. Open to trying another program if those are believed to not be reliable.
Thanks in advance for any asssitance
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