Ok, so a few weeks back I was happily playing a game of Dota 2 when my computer randomly freezes up and makes a monotonous "bzz" until I reset it. I've taken my computer in to a shop to get it cleaned up and looked at because at first I thought it was overheating. He cleaned it, added new thermal paste and checked the temperature of the entire computer, he left it running for 30 hours and the highest temperature it got to was 47 degrees celcius. He also did a test on the memory and told me it passed easily.
I noticed that the freezing only happened when using my gaming application steam and more specifically Dota 2. So I tried, first verifying the integrity of the game cache, uninstalling Dota 2, uninstalling steam and re installing them both, to no avail. I also did the same for other games such as the binding of Isaac and The elder scrolls V: skyrim and they both work perfectly. I came to the conclusion that it was definitely a problem with Dota 2 and did all of my Windows updates, all of my Nvidia updates and looked into the reliability history after it crashed once again. This was the report:
Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.
(part 1)
I noticed that the freezing only happened when using my gaming application steam and more specifically Dota 2. So I tried, first verifying the integrity of the game cache, uninstalling Dota 2, uninstalling steam and re installing them both, to no avail. I also did the same for other games such as the binding of Isaac and The elder scrolls V: skyrim and they both work perfectly. I came to the conclusion that it was definitely a problem with Dota 2 and did all of my Windows updates, all of my Nvidia updates and looked into the reliability history after it crashed once again. This was the report:
Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.
(part 1)
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