Locks up, continuous loop of last few milliseconds of sound

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So I've posted this question before but never got a answer that fixed my situation. I let it go for a week or so cause my PC was working as long as I didn't shut it down, well I had to shut it down to do some moving around and such cause I got a new desk and low and behold it happened again.


What is happening is that when I play a game I can get maybe 15-20 mins of game time in and then my PC will lock up and loop the last few milliseconds of sound through my headset.

Before you ask, I've ran FurMark, Prime95, and Memtest (17 passes) all without fail, even ran AIDA64 for over 20 mins without issues on anything. My computer is clean without dust. (I like to give it a good cleaning every month or so) and I always have HWmonitor running to see if my temps get hot which they never do. While running AIDA64 (all options marked) my CPU got to a max of 55C with a voltage of 1.093 and pulled 44.92 watts and my GPU got to a max of 68C with a voltage of 0.975

My specs are as follows:

Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A
CPU: I5-4690k (hyper 212 evo) (No overclock)
GPU: EVGA Nvidia GTX 760
RAM: 8GB Standard crap stuff
PSU: SeaSonic M12 650W
SSD: 240GB SanDisk SSD plus
HDD: MDT 750GB 5400 RPM (not currently plugged in)
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Service Pack 1 (Currently up to date on updates)


I'm desperately looking for a solid solution to this issue, please help me fix this.
 
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Memory voltage increase by 0.250mv. manually set in bios.

Or core cpu voltage increase. by 0.250mv

Check the motherboard bios firmware revision currently installed on your motherboard as it stands.
Check the Asus support section for the motherboard model number for any newer version of bios firmware and upgrade the bios.

Latest bios firmware revision for better system stability : 2801

https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/Z97A/HelpDesk_Download/

 
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It's in there... SeaSonic 650W, if it helps it also has 53 amps on the 12V rail. Also it ran fine for the longest time without any bios tweaking. I could check for a bios update and hope it helps....
 
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Run "as ssd" and post a screenshot of the result. Check the ssd with the SanDisk tool.

Did you boot with memtest86+ or did you run it inside windows?
Atx12v power connector plugged in completely with 8 pins and not just 4?

Run 3dmark basic edition (firestrike) and post the link which comes up at the end.

How did you clean your PC? Did you wear a grounding wrist or did you ground yourself by touching e.g. a radiator before touching the hardware?
 
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I ran Memtest as a bootable, and cleaned my pc with a can of duster (didn't touch motherboard but did ground myself first by touching metal) all PSU cables are fully plugged in to the motherboard and components and even into the PSU itself (its a semi-modular)
 
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They sure are, but I think I may have fixed the problem. I'll update tomorrow but I;ve been playing for about 8 hours straight now no problems. I believe my wall socket was messed up and it was causing shorts in the system causing it to crash. I moved sockets and no issues so far. but like i said ill update tomorrow when i get home from work and try again cause i might have just gotten lucky this time
 
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Ok, so after a few days of having my pc switched wall sockets I've came to the conclusion that the original socket it was plugged into became faulty as after several hours a night (minimum of 10) of straight gaming my PC has yet to lock up again. I'd like to thank everyone who tried helping me I appreciate it very much and if anyone posts this question again please feel free to use my solution and hope it works for them!!
 
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