Mostly new PC randomly freezing

Poofoo · Feb 8, 2015

So i recently decided to replace some of my old parts and now my PC would randomly freeze 5-10 times daily sometimes even in BIOS. I put everything together myself, it was my first time building but i'm pretty confident where i plugged what and how (i think).

My new parts:

PSU: FSP Raider 750W
GPU: AMD Sapphire R9 290 4gb tri-x
CPU: AMD FX 6350
MOBO: AsRock fatal1ty 970 Performance

the rest are my old 2x4GB DDR3 HyperX 1600 and my HDD both were working fine with my old stuff.
OS is Windows 7 64-bit

Nothing is overclocked and temperatures seem normal 30°C idle and 50°C while gaming. So far i tried disc check, updating windows, drivers and BIOS with no result. Also memtest didn't find anything. Any ideas what could be causing this ?

clutchc · Feb 8, 2015

It may be the cheap FSP Raider PSU. It is rated in the 4th tier here; the "Not Recommend for stressful situations" tier. Running the R9-290 may classify as a stressful situation. Do you have another PSU to experiment with? Another card?
https://community.newegg.com/eggxpert/computer_hardware/f/135081/t/45344.aspx?Redirected=true

Poofoo · Feb 8, 2015

I'll put my old card back and see what happens.

clutchc · Feb 8, 2015

Poofoo :

Just out of curiosity, you didn't use the old Win7 installation with the new MB, did you?

Poofoo · Feb 8, 2015

Nope, new win.

clutchc · Feb 8, 2015

Poofoo :

I guess I should have asked what the old card was.

Poofoo · Feb 8, 2015

Old card is Nvidia gt240, meanwhile i noticed my event viewer was spamming "event 11 atapi: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort4" error - which is my hard drive. Could that be the issue ?

clutchc · Feb 8, 2015

Poofoo :

Could very well be, yes. You could try one of these HDD test tools and see if it turns up anything: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/tophddiag.htm

Poofoo · Feb 9, 2015

I'm getting CRC errors, gonna plug one of the new SATA cables that came with the board in another connector and see if that fixes anything.

Poofoo · Feb 10, 2015

Ok that fixed part of the problem, now freezing every time i open a video or stream that uses flash player, 5-30 sec in (no problems with youtube, as they use HTML5 player i think, demanding games or stress tests). Tried reinstalling some drivers, chrome and unchecking hardware acceleration - no luck.

clutchc · Feb 10, 2015

Have you checked for software conflicts, registry errors, or malware? If not, try a run of CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both.
https://www.piriform.com/
I run it about twice a month.

Then give Malwarebytes a run: https://www.malwarebytes.org/

If still no joy, I would consider a bad component, starting with a RAM check. Run memtest for at least one full pass on each stick of memory individually (so you can tell which if any is bad). http://www.memtest86.com/
Download the .iso for burning a Bootable CD or the file for creating a bootable flash drive.

Poofoo · Feb 10, 2015

Ran CCleaner and Malwarebytes and went on twich to check. Got blue screen after 5 sec, so that's new. I'll try memtests again tomorrow.

clutchc · Feb 10, 2015

Poofoo :

Did CCleaner find much to fix? How about Malwarebytes?

Poofoo · Feb 10, 2015

MB didnt find anything, CCleaner found 20 or so leftovers to fix.

clutchc · Feb 10, 2015

Well... if memtest doesn't turn up any errors, it would seem it is down to either the HDD or the PSU. A faulty PSU can cause a world of problems like you describe. Freezing, HDD errors, etc. But the error messages you get seem to point to the drive or the board. The only way to know I guess, would be to start swapping out parts. If you get another drive and clone it, you might clone the disk errors.

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