Hello
I want to run down what I've been going through and what I think solved it to see if this makes sense,.
First about a year ago I got Windows 7 64bit for my pc to change from vista, from that point i've had random crashes, 90% of the time in 3d video games. To fix this I did the following (at the end I'll tell you what ended up seeming to solve it so far)
1.) Drivers - I tried Nvidia drivers 192.61 - the current driver which now is 270.01 beta or something but it only was up to like 220.00 something when I had that card,
2.) I Went through every windows service one by one to determine if it was that.
3.) checked my temperatures and my average temp was like 25 - 30 range, my cpu never goes above 50, and my video card runs at around 40 In GTA 4 I managed to get my cpu to 55, and my GPU to 42 but thats about it.
4.) I memory tested the crap out of my ram, over night several times with no problems
5.) Windows event logs recorded nothing but the fact that I hard booted it.
6.) I replaced all the cords inside the computer I could and changed the power outlets on some.
7.) I thought it might be my hard drive, I tried windows on both and it still froze, I added a new one, still crashed.
8.) I thought because it seemed like a video crash it was my video card so I replaced that but no. it wasn't that.
9.) checked for malware, trojens, spyware, viruses, worms every possible thing nothing, and since I formated and searched for MBR infections there was nothing anyway, It happened clean install and not clean install.
I tried at least 100 other things but never got a result until.
I changed the memory I had into single channel mode rather then dual channel mode as I had before I installed windows 7 (By changing the slots they were in on the motherboard) , Is it possible I have a bad ram slot? could that have been what caused random freezing? I've never had one so I'm not sure of the symptoms. See with my new graphics card i should be able to play GTA 4 at max settings without lag, before I could not and it would lag, however the second I swapped modules it seemed the game ran seamlessly.
I want to run down what I've been going through and what I think solved it to see if this makes sense,.
First about a year ago I got Windows 7 64bit for my pc to change from vista, from that point i've had random crashes, 90% of the time in 3d video games. To fix this I did the following (at the end I'll tell you what ended up seeming to solve it so far)
1.) Drivers - I tried Nvidia drivers 192.61 - the current driver which now is 270.01 beta or something but it only was up to like 220.00 something when I had that card,
2.) I Went through every windows service one by one to determine if it was that.
3.) checked my temperatures and my average temp was like 25 - 30 range, my cpu never goes above 50, and my video card runs at around 40 In GTA 4 I managed to get my cpu to 55, and my GPU to 42 but thats about it.
4.) I memory tested the crap out of my ram, over night several times with no problems
5.) Windows event logs recorded nothing but the fact that I hard booted it.
6.) I replaced all the cords inside the computer I could and changed the power outlets on some.
7.) I thought it might be my hard drive, I tried windows on both and it still froze, I added a new one, still crashed.
8.) I thought because it seemed like a video crash it was my video card so I replaced that but no. it wasn't that.
9.) checked for malware, trojens, spyware, viruses, worms every possible thing nothing, and since I formated and searched for MBR infections there was nothing anyway, It happened clean install and not clean install.
I tried at least 100 other things but never got a result until.
I changed the memory I had into single channel mode rather then dual channel mode as I had before I installed windows 7 (By changing the slots they were in on the motherboard) , Is it possible I have a bad ram slot? could that have been what caused random freezing? I've never had one so I'm not sure of the symptoms. See with my new graphics card i should be able to play GTA 4 at max settings without lag, before I could not and it would lag, however the second I swapped modules it seemed the game ran seamlessly.