So last weekend i hashed together two computers into one with a new motherboard for a friend.His was a premade pc that crapped out on him and mine was a custom built 2 year old machine.
The current machine:
Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ (new motherboard that fit his cpu)
Amd fx 8300 (his old cpu)
Nvidia 460 gtx (My old GPU)
8 gb 1600 ram (my old ram)
750 W PSU (my old PSU)
Wiped harddrive with win 8 now on it (my old HDD)
Running windows 8 (no updates from windows update though [I have a suspicion it might be bootlegged although i am not sure])
Now he keeps freezing, at first we thought it was only in games, but once or twice it did freeze while trying to download various things for me to help him try and fix it. Sometimes it does let him play for 30-45min and then freeze, seemingly random, but a lot of the time it happens quickly.
Things we have tried:
Afterburner cranking fan up to 75% minimum on gpu even though didnt seem like a heat problem. GPU only got up to 56C when it froze mid game. ( my original thought when he told me was a heat problem)
Stress testing CPU for about 15min which got up to 46C and never made the PC freeze
Redownloaded Direct X- No change
Uninstalled graphics drivers and redownloaded them.
Made sure all drivers in device manager were up to date.
Did try to run startup repair and it failed which made me wonder if it was the HDD and what i could do to fix it because we had already wiped it when he installed windows.
The current machine:
Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ (new motherboard that fit his cpu)
Amd fx 8300 (his old cpu)
Nvidia 460 gtx (My old GPU)
8 gb 1600 ram (my old ram)
750 W PSU (my old PSU)
Wiped harddrive with win 8 now on it (my old HDD)
Running windows 8 (no updates from windows update though [I have a suspicion it might be bootlegged although i am not sure])
Now he keeps freezing, at first we thought it was only in games, but once or twice it did freeze while trying to download various things for me to help him try and fix it. Sometimes it does let him play for 30-45min and then freeze, seemingly random, but a lot of the time it happens quickly.
Things we have tried:
Afterburner cranking fan up to 75% minimum on gpu even though didnt seem like a heat problem. GPU only got up to 56C when it froze mid game. ( my original thought when he told me was a heat problem)
Stress testing CPU for about 15min which got up to 46C and never made the PC freeze
Redownloaded Direct X- No change
Uninstalled graphics drivers and redownloaded them.
Made sure all drivers in device manager were up to date.
Did try to run startup repair and it failed which made me wonder if it was the HDD and what i could do to fix it because we had already wiped it when he installed windows.
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