- Jul 29, 2012
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Hello everyone.
Before I begin, here's my system spec.
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Sapphire R9 290
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 16GB (4x4GB)
Mobo: Gigabyte FXA990 UD3
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
OS: [strike]Windows 7 Ultimate x64[/strike] Upgraded to Windows 8.1 x64
PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 (750W)
About 6 months ago, I upgraded my CPU to a FX-8350 (Previously used an AMD Phenom II x4).
Everything was running smoothly for the first week or so. Then the freezing started. And they were happening quite frequently (At least 3-4 times a day).
At first, I thought the CPU was faulty so I instantly did checks in that area.
I noticed that the CPU had it's turbo boost feature already enabled in the BIOS and turned that off.
Boom. The freezing had stopped.
Then they started again but this time, they don't happen so often (Roughly once or twice a week).
At that point, I just gave up trying to figure out what was going on and ignored the freezing.
6 months later, something new has happened.
While watching a video, my entire system froze but this time my mouse didn't for roughly 5 seconds.
I found it rather odd that after 6 months of instant freezing, this time was different.
So it peeked my interest to start looking for the root of this issue and hopefully fixing it.
The freezing doesn't happen while doing particular things. They are completely random.
Examples of times frozen:
Watching a video either on YouTube or VLC.
Browsing the internet.
Playing a video game.
After boot up.
Doing nothing.
Now you're probably going to be shouting at the screen now because I don't think the CPU is faulty. Freezing aside, it's survived running the latest games on max settings, it's survived stress tests (Hot CPU tester multiple times), I've put it through video rendering (H.264 codecs mainly), 3D animation renders, the lot, and it's never crippled under the pressure.
I have checked the pins on the CPU and they are all fine.
Temps never go above 70C (And it hardly ever gets the chance to reach 70C).
And no new unusual programs have been installed (unusual = programs I have never used before).
The only thing I cannot do is test the CPU on another system as I do not have the parts to build a second.
So I now need the opinions and expertise of other tech savvy people.
Are there things I haven't tried that I should?
Is there a program that could possibly record a computers entire session in a log so I may be able to pin point what causes the crash?
Before I begin, here's my system spec.
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Sapphire R9 290
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 16GB (4x4GB)
Mobo: Gigabyte FXA990 UD3
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
OS: [strike]Windows 7 Ultimate x64[/strike] Upgraded to Windows 8.1 x64
PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 (750W)
About 6 months ago, I upgraded my CPU to a FX-8350 (Previously used an AMD Phenom II x4).
Everything was running smoothly for the first week or so. Then the freezing started. And they were happening quite frequently (At least 3-4 times a day).
At first, I thought the CPU was faulty so I instantly did checks in that area.
I noticed that the CPU had it's turbo boost feature already enabled in the BIOS and turned that off.
Boom. The freezing had stopped.
Then they started again but this time, they don't happen so often (Roughly once or twice a week).
At that point, I just gave up trying to figure out what was going on and ignored the freezing.
6 months later, something new has happened.
While watching a video, my entire system froze but this time my mouse didn't for roughly 5 seconds.
I found it rather odd that after 6 months of instant freezing, this time was different.
So it peeked my interest to start looking for the root of this issue and hopefully fixing it.
The freezing doesn't happen while doing particular things. They are completely random.
Examples of times frozen:
Watching a video either on YouTube or VLC.
Browsing the internet.
Playing a video game.
After boot up.
Doing nothing.
Now you're probably going to be shouting at the screen now because I don't think the CPU is faulty. Freezing aside, it's survived running the latest games on max settings, it's survived stress tests (Hot CPU tester multiple times), I've put it through video rendering (H.264 codecs mainly), 3D animation renders, the lot, and it's never crippled under the pressure.
I have checked the pins on the CPU and they are all fine.
Temps never go above 70C (And it hardly ever gets the chance to reach 70C).
And no new unusual programs have been installed (unusual = programs I have never used before).
The only thing I cannot do is test the CPU on another system as I do not have the parts to build a second.
So I now need the opinions and expertise of other tech savvy people.
Are there things I haven't tried that I should?
Is there a program that could possibly record a computers entire session in a log so I may be able to pin point what causes the crash?
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