I'll just cut straight to the chase. At seemingly random times my computer will freeze. Just a hard freeze, no sounds playing in the background or anything. It's just a still frame, forcing me to restart. Further, when the computer is booting up, it'll get past the enter BIOS prompt, then promptly blackscreen. It won't load Windows, or even do what I assume is search for a secondary boot, like a flash drive or disc. That's what I assume the flashing white underscore usually means, but my memory might not be the best.
However, if I restart my system at the blackscreen, it'll load Windows fine, and I won't have a problem until the computer freezes again, or a display driver crashes and recovers. (Which I'll save for another post if I have to.)
I've heard that the freezing issue could be caused by the power supply, the CPU overheating, and RAM. I've managed to rule out the PSU, considering it's happened with two different PSU's in place, and it's certainly not the CPU overheating, or just overheating in general. Considering that it's frozen up while the computer is in sleep overnight in a cool room. Even then, system load seems to be irrelevant. It's just as likely to freeze while watching a Youtube video as it is during serious gaming.
RAM is the only component that I'm not certain about. I read that reseating the RAM solved it for someone who had a similar problem. I reseated the RAM while switching out PSU's and when I booted back up, I was met with no blackscreen after the BIOS prompt. However, it wasn't long before it froze up again, however this time when I restarted it seemed several USB ports on the Motherboard temporarily stopped functioning, as I had lost use of my mouse and wireless adapter. I was able to restart it again which seemed to restore the USB ports.
In any case, what I have done so far is updating the BIOS in hopes of fixing... something, and today I've updated the chipset as well. I suppose I could run a memtest, but I'm not entirely confident on how to do that or if it'd even be worth doing.
And of course, here are my PC Specs. Hopefully you guys can come up with some reasons as to why this is happening!
Operating System: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit
Processor: Intel Pentium CPU G2030 @ 3.0Ghz (2 CPUs), ~3Ghz
RAM: CORSAIR 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model CMV8GX3M2A1333C9
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 EVGA Superclocked
Motherboard: ASUS H61M-A/USB3 LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI
Hard Drive: WD BLACK SERIES WD1003FZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
I know I have a 500W power supply, but beyond that I don't know the brand or anything. If there's a way to find out without taking it out of the PC I'd be happy to know.
However, if I restart my system at the blackscreen, it'll load Windows fine, and I won't have a problem until the computer freezes again, or a display driver crashes and recovers. (Which I'll save for another post if I have to.)
I've heard that the freezing issue could be caused by the power supply, the CPU overheating, and RAM. I've managed to rule out the PSU, considering it's happened with two different PSU's in place, and it's certainly not the CPU overheating, or just overheating in general. Considering that it's frozen up while the computer is in sleep overnight in a cool room. Even then, system load seems to be irrelevant. It's just as likely to freeze while watching a Youtube video as it is during serious gaming.
RAM is the only component that I'm not certain about. I read that reseating the RAM solved it for someone who had a similar problem. I reseated the RAM while switching out PSU's and when I booted back up, I was met with no blackscreen after the BIOS prompt. However, it wasn't long before it froze up again, however this time when I restarted it seemed several USB ports on the Motherboard temporarily stopped functioning, as I had lost use of my mouse and wireless adapter. I was able to restart it again which seemed to restore the USB ports.
In any case, what I have done so far is updating the BIOS in hopes of fixing... something, and today I've updated the chipset as well. I suppose I could run a memtest, but I'm not entirely confident on how to do that or if it'd even be worth doing.
And of course, here are my PC Specs. Hopefully you guys can come up with some reasons as to why this is happening!
Operating System: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit
Processor: Intel Pentium CPU G2030 @ 3.0Ghz (2 CPUs), ~3Ghz
RAM: CORSAIR 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model CMV8GX3M2A1333C9
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 EVGA Superclocked
Motherboard: ASUS H61M-A/USB3 LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI
Hard Drive: WD BLACK SERIES WD1003FZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
I know I have a 500W power supply, but beyond that I don't know the brand or anything. If there's a way to find out without taking it out of the PC I'd be happy to know.