- Jun 21, 2012
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Today, my computer has completely frozen 5 times within the past few hours. I've had to hard reset to undo it, but it always happens again, for a different reason each time it seems. The first time I was searching for youtube videos, the second time I was playing a game and ended up doing something I thought might've been too intense, the 3rd time it happened right after I started up windows, the 4th time happened while just being on my desktop, and the 5th time happened while watching a youtube video.
Most of the causes I've seen for other people is RAM, but I can't get memtest to work, and I'm unable to use iso mounting programs because the last time I did that I had to reinstall windows, so I don't want to do that again.
My specs:
ASUS Z87-A Motherboard, bought 5 months ago
Intel i5-4670k, bought 5 months ago, overclocked for a few days this week, but reset to default settings after I locked up twice
Nvidia GTX 650 Ti, bought 1 year ago
SeaSonic X650 Gold, bought 2 years ago
Western Digital 500 GB HDD, bought 2 years ago
G.Skill Ripjaw 8GB RAM DDR3 1600, bought 2 years ago
What should I do? Do I need new RAM? Should I try to get memtest working and see what it tells me? I tried out the windows memory diagnostic, but it said nothing's wrong.
Most of the causes I've seen for other people is RAM, but I can't get memtest to work, and I'm unable to use iso mounting programs because the last time I did that I had to reinstall windows, so I don't want to do that again.
My specs:
ASUS Z87-A Motherboard, bought 5 months ago
Intel i5-4670k, bought 5 months ago, overclocked for a few days this week, but reset to default settings after I locked up twice
Nvidia GTX 650 Ti, bought 1 year ago
SeaSonic X650 Gold, bought 2 years ago
Western Digital 500 GB HDD, bought 2 years ago
G.Skill Ripjaw 8GB RAM DDR3 1600, bought 2 years ago
What should I do? Do I need new RAM? Should I try to get memtest working and see what it tells me? I tried out the windows memory diagnostic, but it said nothing's wrong.
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