- May 6, 2016
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In short my problem is this:
Frequently and seemingly randomly my computer will freeze up. Mouse stops moving, keyboard isn't responsive, sound often glitches, and all video freeze frames indefinitely. The only sign of life lies in the jet engine of fans that sometimes even ramp up after freezing. It doesn't seem to be specific to any application, especially so since it sometimes happens on the desktop with nothing open, with it even having happened once in the bios. Often times when it does freeze hard resetting will result in another freeze, sometimes even mere seconds after getting back to the desktop. This of course seems very symptomatic of an overheating problem.
My specs are as follows:
I have been monitoring the temperatures regularly for the past few days now using HW Monitor, and I haven't seen the temperatures in the CPU rise above 72C, while the last time it actually froze with the monitor window in view, the CPU was only 60C. This was while I was doing some openGL programming and so 60C didn't seem at all unreasonable whilst doing some light rendering.
My first thought has been to under-clock my CPU especially since the AMD Turbo Core Technology is set to 4700 MHz, however, all options in bios to do so seem to be grayed out, is there a work-around for this? Alternatively, is it safe to disable cores to try to rule out certain things and would that even help? So what should my first go-to benchmark/test to run to narrow down the possible issues? I don't have much clue when it comes to debugging hardware. I recently installed a fresh copy of windows 10 to try and rule that out. Since I have done a deep clean of the internals of my computer removing dust from fans and well as re-seating the CPU and GPU with fresh thermal paste for the CPU. I have done reinstalled/updated drivers many times once even using guru3d I think it's called. Any help would be very appreciated, at this point I'm not very concerned with performance, I just need some stability back in my life, this is driving me insane, especially nearing the end of a semester with lots of projects due.
In even longer some additional info you might not care about:
In the past I have had regular issues with AMD Wattman crashing, however, when that occurs it usually crashes and restores. Whereas with these freeze instances it stays frozen indefinitely. So it's probably mostly unrelated. Although if there is anyone knows how to clear that up it would be helpful as well. But my primary concern is with the freezing deal.
I've been experiencing this problem for about a year now, however, it's never been too much of a problem for me to spend any more than an hour tinker with\pondering. It now is getting a bit out of control and I would appreciate help, in fact if anyone manages to come up with an answer that truly helps I'd be happy to send some money via papal your way (say 20 bucks), because you'd really be helping me out. I don't think offering money violates forum policy but if it does I'm so sorry.
Thanks a ton for any and all help!
Frequently and seemingly randomly my computer will freeze up. Mouse stops moving, keyboard isn't responsive, sound often glitches, and all video freeze frames indefinitely. The only sign of life lies in the jet engine of fans that sometimes even ramp up after freezing. It doesn't seem to be specific to any application, especially so since it sometimes happens on the desktop with nothing open, with it even having happened once in the bios. Often times when it does freeze hard resetting will result in another freeze, sometimes even mere seconds after getting back to the desktop. This of course seems very symptomatic of an overheating problem.
My specs are as follows:
- MSI 990FXA Gaming
AMD FX 9370
ASUS Strix R9 Fury
Corsair RM850x
Corsair H115i
16GB DDR3 RAM
240GB SSD
1TB HDD
I have been monitoring the temperatures regularly for the past few days now using HW Monitor, and I haven't seen the temperatures in the CPU rise above 72C, while the last time it actually froze with the monitor window in view, the CPU was only 60C. This was while I was doing some openGL programming and so 60C didn't seem at all unreasonable whilst doing some light rendering.
My first thought has been to under-clock my CPU especially since the AMD Turbo Core Technology is set to 4700 MHz, however, all options in bios to do so seem to be grayed out, is there a work-around for this? Alternatively, is it safe to disable cores to try to rule out certain things and would that even help? So what should my first go-to benchmark/test to run to narrow down the possible issues? I don't have much clue when it comes to debugging hardware. I recently installed a fresh copy of windows 10 to try and rule that out. Since I have done a deep clean of the internals of my computer removing dust from fans and well as re-seating the CPU and GPU with fresh thermal paste for the CPU. I have done reinstalled/updated drivers many times once even using guru3d I think it's called. Any help would be very appreciated, at this point I'm not very concerned with performance, I just need some stability back in my life, this is driving me insane, especially nearing the end of a semester with lots of projects due.
In even longer some additional info you might not care about:
In the past I have had regular issues with AMD Wattman crashing, however, when that occurs it usually crashes and restores. Whereas with these freeze instances it stays frozen indefinitely. So it's probably mostly unrelated. Although if there is anyone knows how to clear that up it would be helpful as well. But my primary concern is with the freezing deal.
I've been experiencing this problem for about a year now, however, it's never been too much of a problem for me to spend any more than an hour tinker with\pondering. It now is getting a bit out of control and I would appreciate help, in fact if anyone manages to come up with an answer that truly helps I'd be happy to send some money via papal your way (say 20 bucks), because you'd really be helping me out. I don't think offering money violates forum policy but if it does I'm so sorry.
Thanks a ton for any and all help!
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