- Sep 15, 2014
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A few months ago the HDD crashed in my PC. I bought a new 1TB Western Digital HDD, and ever since I loaded Windows 7 on this new drive I have been experiencing complete system freezes while playing certain games.
The freezes always follow the same order. After a few minutes of playing one of these games certain sounds, but not all sounds, will cut out. It is different for every game. In Skyrim the voices and music cut out, but items still make noise (sword slashes, eating ingredients, etc.); but in Mass Effect 3 the music tracks can be heard, but all other sounds stop. A few moments following the sound cutting out, the video freezes and the last few seconds of whatever audio was playing (sword slash in Skyrim, or music in ME3) will loop. As far as I can tell this is a complete system freeze, as I cannot alt+tab, Ctrl+alt+del, or reach the desktop in any way. This freezing typically lasts a minute or so, after which the game resumes normally as if nothing had happened, and if I had alt+tabbed I would now be on the desktop.
Here are some specs on my PC:
MOBO M68MT-S2
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor, 3300 Mhz,
GPU Geforce GTX 560
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Here are some of the games that freeze:
Skyrim
Mass Effect 2 + 3
Fallout New Vegas
GTA IV
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Here is what tests I've done to diagnose the problem, and what they yielded:
I tried running everything in windowed, all still froze
I tried a fresh install of windows, All still froze
I disabled my sound card in bios and tried playing these games, all still froze
I ran Memtest86+ for 7 cycles, No issues with the memory
I ran Furmark for 1 hour with GPU-Z and CPU-Z running to monitor, no overheating for freezing
I ran Seatools and found no issues with the HDD
I'm at the end of my rope here. I need some new ideas!
The freezes always follow the same order. After a few minutes of playing one of these games certain sounds, but not all sounds, will cut out. It is different for every game. In Skyrim the voices and music cut out, but items still make noise (sword slashes, eating ingredients, etc.); but in Mass Effect 3 the music tracks can be heard, but all other sounds stop. A few moments following the sound cutting out, the video freezes and the last few seconds of whatever audio was playing (sword slash in Skyrim, or music in ME3) will loop. As far as I can tell this is a complete system freeze, as I cannot alt+tab, Ctrl+alt+del, or reach the desktop in any way. This freezing typically lasts a minute or so, after which the game resumes normally as if nothing had happened, and if I had alt+tabbed I would now be on the desktop.
Here are some specs on my PC:
MOBO M68MT-S2
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor, 3300 Mhz,
GPU Geforce GTX 560
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Here are some of the games that freeze:
Skyrim
Mass Effect 2 + 3
Fallout New Vegas
GTA IV
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Here is what tests I've done to diagnose the problem, and what they yielded:
I tried running everything in windowed, all still froze
I tried a fresh install of windows, All still froze
I disabled my sound card in bios and tried playing these games, all still froze
I ran Memtest86+ for 7 cycles, No issues with the memory
I ran Furmark for 1 hour with GPU-Z and CPU-Z running to monitor, no overheating for freezing
I ran Seatools and found no issues with the HDD
I'm at the end of my rope here. I need some new ideas!
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