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Windows 8 freezing, restart is sometimes necessary

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October 17, 2014 11:02:40 AM

I've been experiencing a lot of freezes lately. Sometimes I wait a few minutes and then it works perfectly, but sometimes I have to restart it by holding down the physical start button when Windows 8 isn't responding at all.

My specifications:
OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K CPU 3.30GHz 3.30GHz
Ram: 8 GB
Graphic card: Nvidia 570GTX
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
Power Supply: 600 Watt Heat Pipe Zalman (ZM600-HP)

I'm not sure, but I have a hunch that it might have something to do with my graphic card and my power supply?

Thanks in advance!

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October 17, 2014 11:12:26 AM

hmm maybe the hard drive is the issue.

open your pc up and check for dust
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October 17, 2014 1:09:55 PM

iron8orn said:
hmm maybe the hard drive is the issue.

open your pc up and check for dust


Dust can cause the Disk Usage to exceed 90% consistently?
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October 17, 2014 1:20:19 PM

No, but dust can cause extra heat and crashing.

If your getting 90% disk usage all the time it would be a first for me to see it be hardware related.
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October 17, 2014 1:40:32 PM

I "blow" the dust a way a little now and then so I doubt that is the problem.
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October 17, 2014 1:42:41 PM

Have you recently updated your bios?
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October 18, 2014 2:04:10 AM

No I have not. I should chech that out. I'll be back with an update on how it turned out.
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