sound cutting out/games won't load/youtube videos won't play

d34ny

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Apr 10, 2015
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Hi all,

having an issue with my PC lately, i've had this exact build for well over a year now and this issue has only started happening in the past few weeks - no clue why!

basically, when i leave my PC on for a few hours (sometimes less) the sound will just cut out completely and certain applications will fail to load (when i say fail, i mean i'll double click for example battlefield 3 and nothing happens). also Youtube videos won't play.

Anyway a reboot solves this but that's not really a permanent solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

specs -

i7 2700k
asus P8Z77-V LX2
gtx 780
16gb 1600mhz ram

I've ran a memtest on RAM and a HD Tune Pro test on my SSD to rule out any failures there.
 

Nemuki

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Jul 31, 2015
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I would check for viruses/malware
check task manager for suspect items or things that might be using your sound or cpu when it shouldn't be
if you updated drivers recently it may be the cause, try updating again if there is a newer one or downgrading if there isn't
if you haven't updated drivers for a while, do that
generally try to clean up the software that is running on your pc
last resort is to format and if that doesn't work you have a hardware problem.