Computer freezes intermittently

racemd

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Mar 6, 2014
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All, I have a MSI Mobo with a AMD 6 core processors, 2 4GB Corsair DDR 1333 Ram Modules, 1 SSD 128 Kingston and 1 WD 500 sata and using onboard graphics, also using a Linksys PCI wireless adapter. I have a issue where the computer freezes within 10 minutes of use after boot, OS is win 7 64bit, when I say freeze eg, if you click IE to open it does but then freezes and the mouse changes from a pointer to a blue circle and just sits there, the only remediation is to reboot. I reinstalled the OS using the SSD drive and it started hanging after I did windows updates. So then I re-installed the OS using the sata drive, still same issue, so this rules out my hard drives. I decided to also try pcpitstop and after the download test, the upload test failed, "could not find download file to upload test". < Interesting. Then I ran memtest86 against 1 module in slot 1 for 9:32 hours and no errors, the 2nd module is running now in slot 1 for 2:30 hours, no errors. So during normal configuation, the ram is in slot 1/2 of 1-4. Should I started testing 1 4GB modules in slot 1 since I have no errors or start testing the other memory slots?
No errors on ram, so I launched the OS, tried some tests and it locked up. I move the ram to another slot and booted, same result. I am pulling the wifi card now and going to use the 1Gb onboard nic and test. The way things are acting, im suspicious of a mobo hardware issue.
 

racemd

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When using memcheck86, you check one stick at a time, I checked 1 and 3 at the same time too, 1h32 minutes no failure on both at same time. So, I removed the PCI Linksys 54g network card from the PCI slot, move to a lan using onboard NIC and now no issue, im re-imaging the SSD down with another fresh copy of Win 7 and re-inserted my ATI 6450 HD 2GB vid card and will test on onboard nic, if all is well, then either the PCI slots are hosed or the Wificard is bad