i54690k OC to 4.0GHz
MSI Z97 G45 Motherboard
GTX 970 4GB
16GB RAM
1TB HDD, 2TB HDD
Windows 7 64 bit
Hi all,
For the past month or so my PC has been freezing randomly for ~1 - 4 minutes and then unfreezing. When this happens the image on screen freezes and all sound immediately stops, after it unfreezes, my PC continues doing whatever it was but during the freeze my PC loses internet connection (I'm not on Ethernet). I know this because after I unfreeze, I disconnect from anything (e.g. time out of teamspeak) and immediately reconnect.
I created this thread ( http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3516278/freezes-randomly-1min-unfreezes.html ) to try and solve my problem but it was kind of dead end. I followed all suggestions (updated my BIOS, reinstalled gfx drivers, scanned for viruses, uninstalled McAfee and Bradford which had been recently installed by my Uni, and checked even viewer, re-setaed and cleaned my PC) but nothing significant came of it.
The difference between now and then is that I've notices that when playing some games, I can hear a high pitched noise coming from my PC. I tried to sound out where it is coming from and It kinda sound like the GPU but I honestly cant tell. I do know that it is not a fan causing the noise. I also notices that when the noise is present, if I unplug my keyboard or mouse and then plug it back into any USB on the back of my PC, shortly after plugging it back in, my game will freeze for just a second and during the freeze the high pitched sound will vanish but re-appear after the freeze.
Another thing worth noting is that it seems to happen WAY more frequently when I am actively using the internet e.g. downloading, gaming online, talking in skype or teamspeak, browsing on chrome. I do have a wifi card so maybe that's dying?
I'm so totally stumped as to what to do. I don't think its my RAM because I recently got 2 new 8GB sticks to replace my previous 2x4GB sticks (one of which just died) and the freezing has been present with both RAMs. Could be my anything else I suppose. I never OC'ed my GPU but I did my CPU for quite some time. I turned down the OC from 4.3 to 4.0 after this started happening.
I hope I covered everything, but if I didn't, please ask me questions. I really want to figure out what the problem is.
MSI Z97 G45 Motherboard
GTX 970 4GB
16GB RAM
1TB HDD, 2TB HDD
Windows 7 64 bit
Hi all,
For the past month or so my PC has been freezing randomly for ~1 - 4 minutes and then unfreezing. When this happens the image on screen freezes and all sound immediately stops, after it unfreezes, my PC continues doing whatever it was but during the freeze my PC loses internet connection (I'm not on Ethernet). I know this because after I unfreeze, I disconnect from anything (e.g. time out of teamspeak) and immediately reconnect.
I created this thread ( http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3516278/freezes-randomly-1min-unfreezes.html ) to try and solve my problem but it was kind of dead end. I followed all suggestions (updated my BIOS, reinstalled gfx drivers, scanned for viruses, uninstalled McAfee and Bradford which had been recently installed by my Uni, and checked even viewer, re-setaed and cleaned my PC) but nothing significant came of it.
The difference between now and then is that I've notices that when playing some games, I can hear a high pitched noise coming from my PC. I tried to sound out where it is coming from and It kinda sound like the GPU but I honestly cant tell. I do know that it is not a fan causing the noise. I also notices that when the noise is present, if I unplug my keyboard or mouse and then plug it back into any USB on the back of my PC, shortly after plugging it back in, my game will freeze for just a second and during the freeze the high pitched sound will vanish but re-appear after the freeze.
Another thing worth noting is that it seems to happen WAY more frequently when I am actively using the internet e.g. downloading, gaming online, talking in skype or teamspeak, browsing on chrome. I do have a wifi card so maybe that's dying?
I'm so totally stumped as to what to do. I don't think its my RAM because I recently got 2 new 8GB sticks to replace my previous 2x4GB sticks (one of which just died) and the freezing has been present with both RAMs. Could be my anything else I suppose. I never OC'ed my GPU but I did my CPU for quite some time. I turned down the OC from 4.3 to 4.0 after this started happening.
I hope I covered everything, but if I didn't, please ask me questions. I really want to figure out what the problem is.
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