- Jan 16, 2015
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I've been searching around for a fix for this and I can't find one that works anywhere, I was wondering if anyone here had any ideas.
For the last few days my PC, when playing games or watching videos, and sometimes when restarting, will often crash, usually within 10-20 minutes of starting the game or video. It completely freezes where it is with the last millisecond of audio looping in a loud buzzing sound for around 30 seconds before it goes silent. To get the PC working again it requires a hard reset. I don't get a BSOD or any sort of error.
Up until now I've tried:
The only other thing I can think of that may be causing this is that I have recently upgraded my PC, installing a new motherboard, SSD and Windows 8.1. I will try my old motherboard again, and I may try a new install of Windows 8.1 within the next few days, but both are pretty time consuming.
Does anyone have any other ideas about what could be causing this or what kind of fixes might help?
Specs:
Windows 8.1
AMD FX-4170
MSI 970 Motherboard
8GB Crucial RAM
XFX AMD Radeon R9 280
Crucial MX100 256GB SSD, 2x Seagate 1TB HDD, 1x Western Digital 500GB HDD
For the last few days my PC, when playing games or watching videos, and sometimes when restarting, will often crash, usually within 10-20 minutes of starting the game or video. It completely freezes where it is with the last millisecond of audio looping in a loud buzzing sound for around 30 seconds before it goes silent. To get the PC working again it requires a hard reset. I don't get a BSOD or any sort of error.
Up until now I've tried:
- An old GPU in case it was a GPU error
Removing all overclocks
Unplugging all non-essential items from the PSU, such as harddrives other than my OS drive, fans, LEDs, fan controllers etc in case it was a PSU problem
Disabling audio in the BIOS as I have read that realtek sound chips can cause this problem
Uninstalling all audio drivers and devices
Reseating CPU and heatsink as this problem was caused on an old laptop because of the CPU overheating, but at this moment my CPU is idling at 8 degrees C
Using a different sound card
Trying every different realtek driver I can find
The only other thing I can think of that may be causing this is that I have recently upgraded my PC, installing a new motherboard, SSD and Windows 8.1. I will try my old motherboard again, and I may try a new install of Windows 8.1 within the next few days, but both are pretty time consuming.
Does anyone have any other ideas about what could be causing this or what kind of fixes might help?
Specs:
Windows 8.1
AMD FX-4170
MSI 970 Motherboard
8GB Crucial RAM
XFX AMD Radeon R9 280
Crucial MX100 256GB SSD, 2x Seagate 1TB HDD, 1x Western Digital 500GB HDD
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