PC keeps locking up/freezing

Chicken-Select · Nov 2, 2014

Hey everyone! My PC is having some odd issues lately. Sometimes it will just lock up. I'll be doing something and it will freeze and do absolutely nothing until I restart it manually. No blue screen, or error messages at all. Even when I restart it from freezing it doesn't give me any kind of error message. It does it at complete random times it seems. I play a lot of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and it often times happens mid competative match, and that isn't good. It does happen when just using windows and chrome but it seems to happen more whilst gaming. I don't know if that's coincidence or not. Sometimes I will also do this weird stuttering thing where it'll freeze for like 10 milliseconds and come back and do it again. But it won't do it for long only a couple stutters then it's normal. I've looked up some troubleshooting things already and I've done some scans and tests with memtest and tried re-seating the RAM in different slots and such and nothing seems to help. I've also done a fresh install of Windows. Not sure if it's maybe a motherboard issue, or possibly CPU? I doubt it's graphics card. I've heard PSU could be an issue as well. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Let me know if there's any more info I can provide you guys with.

Here are my PC specs (Everything is stock, not overclocked):
Windows 8.1
AMD FX-8350
8GB (4GB x 2) Corsair Vengance DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GTX 780 Asus DirectCU2
Intel Network Ethernet Nic
Asus M5AA99FX r2.0

clutchc · Nov 2, 2014

The first thing I'd check is how much stuff you have running in the background when Win starts. Check your tray and see how many items you can dissable. YOu can start them manually if needed. It may be a software conflict.

The next thing (and maybe most important) I'd do is run CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both. You may have registry errors causing issues, and CCleaner will fix most software conflicts. https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER

Chicken-Select · Nov 2, 2014

clutchc :

Thanks for the reply! My previous install of windows had everything I could disable at start disabled because I like a quick start up and not a lot of random programs that would interfere with my gaming and such. I also used CCleaner regularly and the issue still persisted. I now have a fresh install of Windows and not a ton of programs installed yet and it's still happening. I'll try this though and keep you posted, thanks again!

Tradesman1 · Nov 2, 2014

Is the DRAM set up correctly (to the DRAM specs)?

Chicken-Select · Nov 2, 2014

Tradesman1 :

Hmm, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this :[

Chicken-Select · Nov 3, 2014

Sooo... I've got a bit of an update. Yesterday shortly after respondign to Tradesman1 I was playing a competative match of Counter-Strike. It was the beginning warm up and it said in the in-game chat that I had said: "Hey come stop by my stream and say hi! @Twitch.tv/Tarik". But the strange thing is, I didn't type it. I checked to see on the scoreboard if someone had changed their name to match mine exactly but there wasn't. I took a screenshot of it but it's appearntly non-existant now. That or I just don't know where to find it. Some other odd things have been happening, too. Skype keep lowering my mic gain on it's own so that the person I was in a call with couldn't hear me because it was so low. It was doing this on it's own. My mic was also not working last not on Steam so I couldn't talk to my team mates in-game. It seems to be working fine now, though. I'm really confused as to what's going on and I'm kind of scared. Was I hacked or something? :[

clutchc · Nov 3, 2014

I'd be considering a hack. You might want to download the latest virus signatures for your virus pgm. Also install Malwarebytes. Then disconnect form the internet and run a FULL scan with both. (Malwarebytes might require you to stay online for updates during the scan).
https://www.malwarebytes.org/

Chicken-Select · Nov 4, 2014

clutchc :

Done! it found a couple of things and did away with them. Now to wait and see if the issue persists. I tried streaming to Twitch last night and noticed the PC dead locks or freezes more frequently while gaming and streaming. Not sure if this means anything,

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