My current build seems to have a strange freezing problem that i'm having trouble diagnosing. The PC itself boots fine without any problems and can surf the web and playback videos without any trouble at all and will stay up and running until I choose to switch it off or reboot. However if I try to download any game's from Steam such as Assassins Creed or even another game from a completely different place like World Of Warcraft then the PC freezes and only a hard reboot brings it back. Sometimes it can be only a few seconds after launching the download software sometimes a few minutes. I have been able to download files from the net without a hitch (granted they were nowhere near the 20gig of data I was trying to download via Steam).
Basically the computer runs fine until I try to download any big game files from Steam, Blizzard etc.... and then only a hard reboot will bring it back.
Anyone got any ideas?
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong area of the forum. Thanks for reading.
I have tested the RAM from another computer that works fine on a previous build, in this build to no avail and run windows memory diagnostic on the current set which found no issues at all.
I have tried 3 separate storage drives as I thought maybe the HDD might be dodgy but no luck and run a dskchk on them with no negative results.
The CPU is running at a consistent 16-20°C when idle. So I don't think overheating is the problem.
The graphics card as far as i'm aware seems to be working fine and all the drivers are up to date.
I have tried it with an external ethernet socket to rule out a faulty ethernet socket potentially being the culprit.
I have re-installed windows 3 times to rule out a software problem even using a different disk once to check the software wasn't faulty on that particular copy and a copy of Linux to double check.
I have also tried two different power-supplies
Basically the computer runs fine until I try to download any big game files from Steam, Blizzard etc.... and then only a hard reboot will bring it back.
Anyone got any ideas?
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong area of the forum. Thanks for reading.
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