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Hey guys,

I tried posting this before, but the solutions aren't helping. My PC randomly freezes. Before I ran a virus check and it found some, which solved the problem, but now it is freezing and a virus check is showing up as negative. I tried to create a bootable USB drive to launch windows 7 from a thumb drive, to do a clean install on it, however that created more problems than it solved (there was an issue and I had to do a system restore to an earlier date). Any other advice on how to solve a freezing PC than doing a clean install? I ran a mem tester and it came up as clean, and am not sure what else to do here.

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First of all, memtest results are not always right. You can pass and still have a bad module. The only way to know for sure is to pull each module one at a time, always remembering that any modules remaining in the board need to be in the correct slots for however many modules you still have installed. If you only have two, then the one module needs to be in slot 1 or A1, etc.

Anyhow, if you've done a true clean install where you've deleted the old partition, created a new clean partition and reinstalled the operating system, and still have problems, then it's definitely a hardware issue. A clean installation can't have any problems other than a lack of device drivers which shouldn't in and of itself cause issues. You might have to...
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First of all, memtest results are not always right. You can pass and still have a bad module. The only way to know for sure is to pull each module one at a time, always remembering that any modules remaining in the board need to be in the correct slots for however many modules you still have installed. If you only have two, then the one module needs to be in slot 1 or A1, etc.

Anyhow, if you've done a true clean install where you've deleted the old partition, created a new clean partition and reinstalled the operating system, and still have problems, then it's definitely a hardware issue. A clean installation can't have any problems other than a lack of device drivers which shouldn't in and of itself cause issues. You might have to find, download and install manufacturer specific drivers to get certain hardware to function correctly or even to be recognized in some cases, but it shouldn't be crashing or hanging.

I say shouldn't be, because nothing is ever 100%, but with a clean install generally any issues are due to hardware. I'd be looking in the BIOS to start with to make sure all hardware is reporting in correctly and that settings are correct. Maybe do a optimal or default settings refresh while you're in there.
 
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chainers

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Hey man thanks for the help, it may be my memory because when I did a boot time scan, my computer froze. But I also realized that I haven't updated my windows in a while, and that seemed to solve a lot of issues with my PC. If that doesn't work, Ill try testing my memory one at a time.

Thanks!
 
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