PC Freezes and Crashes due to AMD Northbridge

Nender1

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Randomly and unexpectedly my PC will freeze and then shut itself off.

I knew it wasn't a heat problem, but just to make sure I checked my temps while playing games. Everything is perfectly fine and there isn't any anomalies in my temps.

Next I checked to see if it was my hard drive. I have had problems with it in the past so I ran (chkdsk). After the repair everything seemed fine until my PC crashed again.

I found an error within my logs saying hardware failure with the "AMD Northbridge". Which is weird because it is apart of the motherboard and my motherboard is brand new. It seems that the chipset is causing the crashes..

Specs:
CPU Type
AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor

Graphics Chipset
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series

Motherboard
GB-78LMT-USB3

Operating System
Windows 10 - Home edition
 

Seanie280672

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North bridge is the CPU not the motherboard, the north bridge, memory controller etc are all built into the CPU now a days not the motherboard, that only has a south bridge.

You say its a new motherboard, did you put a clean fresh installation of windows on after installing the new board ?

Also make sure your bios and drivers are all up to date.
 

Nender1

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I managed to fix my problem.

Apparently there was a faulty stick of RAM. I removed it and now my computer is working fine!

Though now I need to figure out how to update my bios on windows 10 :(