- Dec 24, 2012
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Well, recently I upgraded a few things on my PC. I bought a kit of 16gb of memory, as well as an EVGA 1070 FTW.
Once I installed these items, I started to have random freezes/restarts. It doesn't seem to be triggered by anything in particular. I replaced my PSU since what I had was old, and the problem persisted. It would take maybe 5 minutes to mess up. I changed out the new ram for my old ram, and the problem stopped. With advise from my other thread I had in the memory section, I did a little tweaking in safe mode with the new ram installed again, and never had a problem. Thinking this meant it was more of a driver issue, I reinstalled all my drivers, and my PC seemed to be working fine.
But, no. Its still freezing/restarting. Just not nearly as quickly. Now, its able to run for a couple of hours before it will fail. Like I mentioned before, I am able to do anything I want for the most part. Games (like The Division), web, music, videos. No problems anywhere, just random failure.
I've thought of just doing a complete reformat again, but would like to avoid this if someone may have an answer to my issue. If you need any more information, just let me know.
My basic specs -
Gigabyte GA970S-UD3P
AMD FX-6300 with Hyper 212 cooler
Corsair Vengeance (Old-CML8GX3M2A1600C9B New-CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10)
Corsair 750 PSU
EVGA GTX1070 FTW
Once I installed these items, I started to have random freezes/restarts. It doesn't seem to be triggered by anything in particular. I replaced my PSU since what I had was old, and the problem persisted. It would take maybe 5 minutes to mess up. I changed out the new ram for my old ram, and the problem stopped. With advise from my other thread I had in the memory section, I did a little tweaking in safe mode with the new ram installed again, and never had a problem. Thinking this meant it was more of a driver issue, I reinstalled all my drivers, and my PC seemed to be working fine.
But, no. Its still freezing/restarting. Just not nearly as quickly. Now, its able to run for a couple of hours before it will fail. Like I mentioned before, I am able to do anything I want for the most part. Games (like The Division), web, music, videos. No problems anywhere, just random failure.
I've thought of just doing a complete reformat again, but would like to avoid this if someone may have an answer to my issue. If you need any more information, just let me know.
My basic specs -
Gigabyte GA970S-UD3P
AMD FX-6300 with Hyper 212 cooler
Corsair Vengeance (Old-CML8GX3M2A1600C9B New-CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10)
Corsair 750 PSU
EVGA GTX1070 FTW
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