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I built this PC about 12 months ago, but in late October of 2017 it started having constant issues running VMware and Google Chome, eventually leading to hard crashes and freezes. After wiping and reformatting the hard drive to no effect, I took it in to a PC repair place to see if I got a virus or anything; however it came back clean with no problems immediately visible to the technicians. On their recommendation I sent the motherboard in to ASUS to see if there was anything I was missing, but they didn't find anything either. Yet after having the PC repair business reassemble my PC, I found that the freezing and crash-reboot loops still occurred. After browsing the forums here, I downgraded my CPU to an AMD FX-8350, but the problem only seems to have worsened with the new chip. Can anybody see something immediately obvious that I seem to be missing here?

PC Build Components:
CPU: AMD FX-9590, downgraded to FX-8350
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0
GPU: ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 DUAL-GTX1060-O3G 3GB
Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H100i V2
RAM: G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3
PSU: Corsair CX750M
Hard Drive: WD Blue 1TB Hard Disk Drive
Operating System: Windows 10
 
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Frequently, older AMD motherboards with CPUs cooled via an AIO solution got inadequate cooling to voltage regulator circuitry on mainboard....

Open the case, blow a fan across the VRM circuitry....



Experiment with testing with one RAM stick in each slot, alternately if failures still occur.

Try a different hard drive in a different SATA port with a new SATA cable, just to eliminate potentially easy stuff quickly...

Even a marginal PSU can cause brownouts/lockups, if you have a known good spare, insert it to possibly rule it out....

Once you eliminate RAM, drives, etc., motherboards fail many times more often than do actual CPUs...
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I imagine the computer repair business ran a hardware stress test so I'll rule that out. Did they check for bios updates? Could be a software update issue. I play a online fps mulitplayer games that require higher memory and computing power. At times I've run into an issue with an update that freezes or crashes my computer. Then I have to go online to search out the latest update to a program or roll back to the last known good version. Video card updates are notorious for update glitches like that. Look up Nvidia downloads and grab an update for your card or locate an older know good version on their site.
Also with updating your Nvidia drivers, make sure to do a 'clean' uninstall first. Use a driver uninstaller from Nvidia or something like Revo Uninstaller to dig out the registry path of the driver(s).
I look on the forum sites of the programs I use. They sometimes have someone with the same issue. I know Microsoft has a technet site for Windows 10 issues.
Do you know how to examine the event viewer in windows?
Hope some of this helps.
 
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Frequently, older AMD motherboards with CPUs cooled via an AIO solution got inadequate cooling to voltage regulator circuitry on mainboard....

Open the case, blow a fan across the VRM circuitry....



Experiment with testing with one RAM stick in each slot, alternately if failures still occur.

Try a different hard drive in a different SATA port with a new SATA cable, just to eliminate potentially easy stuff quickly...

Even a marginal PSU can cause brownouts/lockups, if you have a known good spare, insert it to possibly rule it out....

Once you eliminate RAM, drives, etc., motherboards fail many times more often than do actual CPUs...
 
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