Help with system freezing

[kudu22]

Hello everyone,

I've recently been having troubles with my gaming PC freezing after ~2mins of gameplay. The freezing process begins with some slight crackling in the audio. When I try to restart the computer after these freezes, it won't boot unless I enter Startup Repair and restore. There are no other tasks that cause the computer to freeze.
I recently changed my C drive to a 120 gb ssd, but the system ran fine for 2-3 months with this new hard drive.

My specs are:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: AMD Phenom II x4 975
RAM: 4 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA geforce 560
Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO
HD1: SSD 120GB
HD2: 1 TB HDD

If anyone could help with this it would be much appreciated.

EDIT: If this is in the wrong subforum, my apologies.

 

[crewton]

Do you have a sound card?

 

[kudu22]

Nope

 

[crewton]

When you added the SSD did you do a fresh install of windows? It sounds like you have a driver conflict which I hoped would be from the sound card

 

[kudu22]

When you added the SSD did you do a fresh install of windows? It sounds like you have a driver conflict which I hoped would be from the sound card

Yeah, it was a fresh install.

 

[crewton]

Have you tried using just one ram stick at a time? Or you can run memtest86+ on each stick and see if one is bad.

 

[kudu22]

The RAM seems to be fine as well.

 

[crewton]

Hmm your problem is beyond me The next thing I'd do if I were you would be to just do a fresh install of everything one at a time and see what is messing up but that is a major pain. Hmm or before that...have you tried using different nvidia drivers and making sure you don't have any amd graphic drivers still around?

 

[kudu22]

My drivers are up to date and I don't think I've ever had any amd graphics drivers on here. Thanks for trying to help though, much appreciated.