- Sep 22, 2014
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I built my PC around 3 years ago but stopped using it after about 2 months due to random freezing. No BSOD or black screens, just a hard lock up and required a hard reset. It seemed to also freeze more often the longer it was used, seemingly like a heating issue. Then about 2 months from today, I got a new GPU and that seemed to solve the issue completely. There weren't anymore freezes and I could even run the PC for more than 24 hours at a time.
But about 1-2 weeks ago, the PC started it again. Same type of freezing and also seemed like a heating issue. It progressively freezes in shorter times the longer that I use it and every time requires a hard reset. The PSU seemed to have bad ventilation and even short-circuited yesterday, so I replaced it to no avail.
The only thing that might be overheating could possibly be the HDD or the northbridge and a couple capacitors on the Motherboard, but neither heats up to the point that could cause severe burns to human skin (stays around the same temp as the CPU.) I have tried also Memtesting the RAM by using each stick 1-by-1 in the PC but it freezes regardless. Can someone please help me find a solution? I'm almost to the point of scraping it and buying an entirely new PC.
Here's a picture of where the most heat on the northbridge and capacitors are coming from:
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=adkBqYNLltsGxD0uJdU2Loh4l5k2TGxc#.VB-ix2Pk28A
PC Components:
-Case= NZXT. Phantom 410 Series Red
-Motherboard= MSI 870A-G54
-Core Processer= AMD Phenom II
-Graphics Card= Nvidia GTX 760 Ti
-Power Supply= ThermalTake TR2 600w
-RAM= 4x "4GB DDR3" Sticks (1 Pair Cosair Vengence, 1 Pair Kingston HyperX)
-HDD= Seagate 1TB HDD Drive
-Disc Drive= DVD/ DVD-RW
Thanks for any help you can give me!
But about 1-2 weeks ago, the PC started it again. Same type of freezing and also seemed like a heating issue. It progressively freezes in shorter times the longer that I use it and every time requires a hard reset. The PSU seemed to have bad ventilation and even short-circuited yesterday, so I replaced it to no avail.
The only thing that might be overheating could possibly be the HDD or the northbridge and a couple capacitors on the Motherboard, but neither heats up to the point that could cause severe burns to human skin (stays around the same temp as the CPU.) I have tried also Memtesting the RAM by using each stick 1-by-1 in the PC but it freezes regardless. Can someone please help me find a solution? I'm almost to the point of scraping it and buying an entirely new PC.
Here's a picture of where the most heat on the northbridge and capacitors are coming from:
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=adkBqYNLltsGxD0uJdU2Loh4l5k2TGxc#.VB-ix2Pk28A
PC Components:
-Case= NZXT. Phantom 410 Series Red
-Motherboard= MSI 870A-G54
-Core Processer= AMD Phenom II
-Graphics Card= Nvidia GTX 760 Ti
-Power Supply= ThermalTake TR2 600w
-RAM= 4x "4GB DDR3" Sticks (1 Pair Cosair Vengence, 1 Pair Kingston HyperX)
-HDD= Seagate 1TB HDD Drive
-Disc Drive= DVD/ DVD-RW
Thanks for any help you can give me!
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