Hi! I took a look around and couldn't find a solution, so thought I'd throw this up in hopes someone had any other ideas as I'm running out. I started to notice the problem happening around mid February.
Problem:
Windows 7 randomly and temporarily freezes for a few seconds in all programs. Sometimes multiple times in a row and other times once every 10 minutes. I've even managed to go a full hour and a half sometimes with no issue.
System:
Gigabyte P55A-UD3 revision 1 motherboard
Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66 and aftermarket cooler (overclocked to 3.4)
EVGA GTX 770 (previously GTX 570)
16GB (2x8gb) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-256G Solid State Drive
WD3200AAKS 320gb HDD (backup)
Auzentech Xplosion 7.1 Cinema
Corsair 1500 Vengeance V2 headset
Windows 7 x64
Behavior:
-Batman Origins (single player): Video will freeze whatever I'm doing, sound will continue in the background, and then it will continue right where it left off. It's not like online multiplayer where everything "warps" to where it should be. Literally picks up right where it left off. Actions I have triggered will continue without skipping a beat.
-Titanfall (multiplayer): Video will freeze. When I come out of it, I am warped into "the now" of whatever is happening. I was fortunate (unfortunate?
) enough to die right as this happened and saw myself on chasecam. My titan completely froze mid walk (as in leg raised) until the player killed me. What's peculiar about this is that normally when players or NPC's lag, they are motionless as if they are standing idle. In this case, my Titan and I were frozen mid animation. Never seen that before (40+ hours).
-Youtube (chrome)- Video playback will pause, however sound from the video keeps playing. When I come out of it, the video will catch up to where the sound is.
-Web Browsing (chrome)- If I'm reading a webpage and scroll the mousewheel down during one of these occurrences, it will freeze and then eventually scroll down to "catch up" to the scrolling. This has happened on text only pages, no other tabs open.
Things I have tried with no success:
-Format with a fresh install of Windows 7 (and all windows updates).
-Watching windows event viewer logs. There are no hardware stoppages or errors popping up. I would immediately alt tab from Batman when it froze and look for anything around the timestamp. The only events that continued to occur were 7036 events, from these three programs: Application Experience Service, Multimedia Class Scheduler, and Program Compatibility Assistant Service. I have tried disabling all three of them (separately and together) to no avail.
-Completely cleaned the case and reseated every piece of hardware (not processor) as well as switching ram slots. While it helped a little bit with temps and noise, it helped little else.
-Checkdsk on my hard drive. Returned with no errors.
-Underclocked my i5 to 2.4 (factory 2.6) by changing the multipliers. Normally I run it overclocked at 3.4 and have been for the past four years with an aftermarket cooler and never had an issue. Temperatures have never been an issue and voltages were always left stock. No other hardware is overclocked. I underclocked it just to see if that was the cause, but the problem still continued.
-Different video card. Previously had a GTX 570 in there, now there is a GTX 770. I also turned off the EVGA Precision software so it would not overclock.
-Disabled my sound card and attempted to run sound via my Corsair 1500 built in sound card.
-Onboard sound has always been disabled, but I verified.
Programs installed (all current version):
-Steam (games- Batman, Tombraider, Payday 2, Saints Row IV)
-Origin (games- Titanfall)
-EVGA Precision
-Nvidia drivers + Geforce Experience (running WHQL non beta drivers)
-Logitech drivers (mouse)
-Corsair 1500 driver program
-Auzentech Xplode 7.1 Cinema drivers
-Mumble
-Chrome
Any ideas on where to go next? Thank you!!
Problem:
Windows 7 randomly and temporarily freezes for a few seconds in all programs. Sometimes multiple times in a row and other times once every 10 minutes. I've even managed to go a full hour and a half sometimes with no issue.
System:
Gigabyte P55A-UD3 revision 1 motherboard
Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66 and aftermarket cooler (overclocked to 3.4)
EVGA GTX 770 (previously GTX 570)
16GB (2x8gb) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-256G Solid State Drive
WD3200AAKS 320gb HDD (backup)
Auzentech Xplosion 7.1 Cinema
Corsair 1500 Vengeance V2 headset
Windows 7 x64
Behavior:
-Batman Origins (single player): Video will freeze whatever I'm doing, sound will continue in the background, and then it will continue right where it left off. It's not like online multiplayer where everything "warps" to where it should be. Literally picks up right where it left off. Actions I have triggered will continue without skipping a beat.
-Titanfall (multiplayer): Video will freeze. When I come out of it, I am warped into "the now" of whatever is happening. I was fortunate (unfortunate?
) enough to die right as this happened and saw myself on chasecam. My titan completely froze mid walk (as in leg raised) until the player killed me. What's peculiar about this is that normally when players or NPC's lag, they are motionless as if they are standing idle. In this case, my Titan and I were frozen mid animation. Never seen that before (40+ hours).-Youtube (chrome)- Video playback will pause, however sound from the video keeps playing. When I come out of it, the video will catch up to where the sound is.
-Web Browsing (chrome)- If I'm reading a webpage and scroll the mousewheel down during one of these occurrences, it will freeze and then eventually scroll down to "catch up" to the scrolling. This has happened on text only pages, no other tabs open.
Things I have tried with no success:
-Format with a fresh install of Windows 7 (and all windows updates).
-Watching windows event viewer logs. There are no hardware stoppages or errors popping up. I would immediately alt tab from Batman when it froze and look for anything around the timestamp. The only events that continued to occur were 7036 events, from these three programs: Application Experience Service, Multimedia Class Scheduler, and Program Compatibility Assistant Service. I have tried disabling all three of them (separately and together) to no avail.
-Completely cleaned the case and reseated every piece of hardware (not processor) as well as switching ram slots. While it helped a little bit with temps and noise, it helped little else.
-Checkdsk on my hard drive. Returned with no errors.
-Underclocked my i5 to 2.4 (factory 2.6) by changing the multipliers. Normally I run it overclocked at 3.4 and have been for the past four years with an aftermarket cooler and never had an issue. Temperatures have never been an issue and voltages were always left stock. No other hardware is overclocked. I underclocked it just to see if that was the cause, but the problem still continued.
-Different video card. Previously had a GTX 570 in there, now there is a GTX 770. I also turned off the EVGA Precision software so it would not overclock.
-Disabled my sound card and attempted to run sound via my Corsair 1500 built in sound card.
-Onboard sound has always been disabled, but I verified.
Programs installed (all current version):
-Steam (games- Batman, Tombraider, Payday 2, Saints Row IV)
-Origin (games- Titanfall)
-EVGA Precision
-Nvidia drivers + Geforce Experience (running WHQL non beta drivers)
-Logitech drivers (mouse)
-Corsair 1500 driver program
-Auzentech Xplode 7.1 Cinema drivers
-Mumble
-Chrome
Any ideas on where to go next? Thank you!!
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