PC keeps crashing/re-booting

josejones

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Hi, not sure if this is the section to post this issue yet or not but, here's my issue:

About once or twice a week my computer just freezes, locks up makes a weird sound like the sound is trying to play but skips super fast like an old record and then, shuts down and re-boots again. My cursor locks up, everything locks up. I check my device manager and it does show an error but is not helpful at all - as usual. When it re-boots it works like nothing ever happened.

I've spent all day doing every test I can think of from the Ultimate Boot CD

* CPU test
* HD test
* memory
* video memory

not one single error to be found.

I've been using HWinfo64 to keep an eye on temps and I have NEVER seen anything beyond normal - even cooler than normal likely due to my case with all the fans.

The issue has happened while simply going thru Youtube videos, surfing the net, gaming, playing a DVD and watching a movie on Netflix. Nothing beyond gaming was intensive so, I really can't imagine what it could be.

The only issues I have noticed are that I am starting to have trouble with my motherboards USB ports appear to be crapping out on me - I've been using the X12 Turtle Beach headphones and was getting loads of static/white noise that was really bad so I switched ports to the front and it doesn't seem to be an issue so, I'm unclear if that's a symptom or not.

Anybody else ever experience this issue?

My system:

MB: MSI 790FX-GD70
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955
RAM: 8g Mushkin 1600
GPU: Evga 760 SC 2g
PSU: Seasonic X-750w
HD: WD Blue 500g SATA 3, 16mb cache
EX-HD: 1T
Case: Antec One Illusion (w/4 fans)
OS: Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit
 

josejones

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I'm now also thinking it's a software issue. I may simply need to re-format. I'm wondering if my CCleaner tool is removing bits and pieces from my OS registry to cause this?

From the event viewer:

Windows 7 error 0x80041003

Windows 7 fatal error 0x88980406

How To Disable the Automatic Restart on System Failure in Windows 7
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/automatic-restart-windows-7.htm

I have disabled the restart this morning just as a test to see what will happen.