Hello, I have been having an issue with my computer for a while now and I have run out of ideas.
The system:
MOBO: Biostar TA990FXE
CPU: AMD FX 8350
RAM: 8Gb G.skill Sniper Series DDR3 1600
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120 Gb
HDD: 2Tb WD black 7200RPM
Graphics: GTX 560
I have windows 10 on the SSD (upgraded from windows 8.1), and most of my data stored on the HDD.
The problem: My computer freezes randomly, necessitating a hard reboot when this occurs. Sometimes it will be stable for long periods of time (it went without issue last week and I thought I had solved the problem, but it has reemerged), other times it will freeze so frequently that I can't even log on.
I have done quite a bit of research on this, and so far nothing has helped. I have run diagnostic tools on my RAM and hard drives and found no issue, I have checked registries and even reinstalled windows. I have tried to find records of what happens during the events, but because it isn't crashing, just freezing, there are no records (save from the power loss in the hard reboot).
I have tried swapping the SATA ports that the drives are connected to (to see if they were faulty), which did result in the aforementioned week of stability. This has not helped. My gut tells me that this is either a problem with the SSD or the MOBO, but I cannot figure out which one. I tried to test this by installing windows on a spare drive that I have lying around and using it to boot, but this did not work. The new windows ran agonizingly slowly (beyond the point of simply inconvenient), however I am not sure if this is a problem with the rest of the system, or that drive in particular (because I remembered that the reason I stopped using that drive was because it had bad sectors).
Any help would be appreciated.
The system:
MOBO: Biostar TA990FXE
CPU: AMD FX 8350
RAM: 8Gb G.skill Sniper Series DDR3 1600
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120 Gb
HDD: 2Tb WD black 7200RPM
Graphics: GTX 560
I have windows 10 on the SSD (upgraded from windows 8.1), and most of my data stored on the HDD.
The problem: My computer freezes randomly, necessitating a hard reboot when this occurs. Sometimes it will be stable for long periods of time (it went without issue last week and I thought I had solved the problem, but it has reemerged), other times it will freeze so frequently that I can't even log on.
I have done quite a bit of research on this, and so far nothing has helped. I have run diagnostic tools on my RAM and hard drives and found no issue, I have checked registries and even reinstalled windows. I have tried to find records of what happens during the events, but because it isn't crashing, just freezing, there are no records (save from the power loss in the hard reboot).
I have tried swapping the SATA ports that the drives are connected to (to see if they were faulty), which did result in the aforementioned week of stability. This has not helped. My gut tells me that this is either a problem with the SSD or the MOBO, but I cannot figure out which one. I tried to test this by installing windows on a spare drive that I have lying around and using it to boot, but this did not work. The new windows ran agonizingly slowly (beyond the point of simply inconvenient), however I am not sure if this is a problem with the rest of the system, or that drive in particular (because I remembered that the reason I stopped using that drive was because it had bad sectors).
Any help would be appreciated.