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Stealth2668

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When this happens I have to hard reset the computer. Any idea what the issue is? It's a pretty new build, with a couple of things from my old build. I have;

new:
Windows 8.1 64-bit
i5-4670k
8 GB G Skill RAM
1 TB SATA 3 Seagate HDD
MSI Z87-G41 motherboard

old:
500GB SATA 2 HDD
GTX 460
 
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I'm not sure, the case came with a pre-built pc, but this only happens once in a while. When I play BF4 for hours, it never goes above 60C and the few times it froze I was doing something simple like web browsing.
 
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I have errors in Administrative Events but nothing that tells me what the problem was. Also say that a recent shutdown was unexpected but this doesn't tell me anything. Happens maybe once a week and everything is clean, since it's mostly new parts and a fresh OS.
 
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It freezes. The image stays on screen and my cpu fan goes wild until I hard reset. Just happened again when I was simply browsing the net. I checked the temperatures right away after reboot and it was normal (around 38C). Hasn't happened while doing anything intensive like gaming. I made sure I have all the latest drivers including BIOS ver. 1.4 (MSI mobo) and I did a virus and malware scan which turns up nothing.
 
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is it overclocked? If it is its not stable, try adding a little voltage. If its not overclocked try runing a chkdsk. Could be the old hdd if your runing that as the primary drive.
 
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No it's an old GPU (2010 I think lol). My system is not overclocked and I'm using my new drive as a primary (has my OS and other main programs/files on it) my old HDD is just storage for random stuff.

EDIT: What's a "chkdsk" and how do I run it?
 
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here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090103024230AAhLlkS
just make sure to set you drive letter for the drive you want to check, i would check both if i was you

 
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