I couldn't find a good place to put this, but i have just a hunch that it might be the motherboard so I will put it here. Settle down its a long story.
Very early September last year, after I had built my computer http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/292931-31-ultra-build , it crashed. This happened maybe once every 2 weeks. The image would become completely frozen, the last few milliseconds of music would repeat, and it wouldn't respond to anything. After a reboot it would be fine though, and it happened so rarely that I didn't worry about it.
It has been getting progressively worse though, getting slowly more often until now where it happens at least once a day. I have done some basic troubleshooting and it has seemingly nothing to do what I am running on the computer when it crashes, how long it has been on, or if I am even at my computer.
There are also a host of other problems that have appeared recently. After a crash, the computer will run very slowly before going into windows. At first it went slowly when detecting the DVD drive, so I thought that must have been the problem and removed it. Crashes still happened though, but it did fix the slow start up problem, for a bit. A few days later it starting going slowly on "Initializing USB controllers". My keyboard also is now unresponsive after a crash until the computer is booted back up into windows. Just today the power button stopped working after a crash, and the computer never came back into windows. I left it on "Initializing USB controllers" for 40 minutes before i turned it off. After leaving for a few hours and coming back it started up fine with great speed.
I run Windows 7 x64
MSI 870-G45 AM3 AMD 870 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX
I boot off of a 40gb ssd.
If any more information would be important just ask. I am very bad at debugging hardware problems.
Very early September last year, after I had built my computer http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/292931-31-ultra-build , it crashed. This happened maybe once every 2 weeks. The image would become completely frozen, the last few milliseconds of music would repeat, and it wouldn't respond to anything. After a reboot it would be fine though, and it happened so rarely that I didn't worry about it.
It has been getting progressively worse though, getting slowly more often until now where it happens at least once a day. I have done some basic troubleshooting and it has seemingly nothing to do what I am running on the computer when it crashes, how long it has been on, or if I am even at my computer.
There are also a host of other problems that have appeared recently. After a crash, the computer will run very slowly before going into windows. At first it went slowly when detecting the DVD drive, so I thought that must have been the problem and removed it. Crashes still happened though, but it did fix the slow start up problem, for a bit. A few days later it starting going slowly on "Initializing USB controllers". My keyboard also is now unresponsive after a crash until the computer is booted back up into windows. Just today the power button stopped working after a crash, and the computer never came back into windows. I left it on "Initializing USB controllers" for 40 minutes before i turned it off. After leaving for a few hours and coming back it started up fine with great speed.
I run Windows 7 x64
MSI 870-G45 AM3 AMD 870 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX
I boot off of a 40gb ssd.
If any more information would be important just ask. I am very bad at debugging hardware problems.