Self Built PC randomly crashes

littlematthewsPC · Jul 27, 2014

I built a PC recently and generally it runs fine however after start up it crashes randomly? There's no obvious cause of the crash, the screen will just freeze, Ctrl, Alt + Del doesn't work, the cursor won't move and nothing I do gets any response! After restarting it then runs fine and doesn't crash until I turn off and on again. Running games or any other intensive application has no effect.

I tried re-installing windows and that didn't work.

Wondering if its a hardware issue?

Any suggestions are welcome, please help me!

System:
Windows 8.1
AMD FX8350 CPU
GTX 650ti Boost GPU
8GB Kingston RAM
1TB Seagate SSD/HDD Hybrid
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard

JoakimL · Jul 27, 2014

If you haven't done so already, visit ASUS website and download the latest drivers for your motherboard and install them. The drivers supplied on DVD/CD with a new motherboard could be old.

In case you use the "sleep" option instead of "turn off" when you turn the PC off, try using "turn off" instead. I used to have the same problem as you when I used "sleep" instead of "turn off".
(After a while a had what counts as a disk crash on my SSD boot drive, so I replaced it with a new SSD which fixed both problems.)

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