Colif :
Neither is the behaviour of windows so it looks like hardware
run this on memory: http://www.memtest86.com/
what are specs of PC?
Okay will do, I will come back here when it is done. I would like to keep trouble-shooting it down to exactly which hardware.
I had this build since late 2010, except for the GPU which is nearly 2 years old. I am still in the middle of finding and installing the drivers for the hardware, I am scared it will freeze a set up in the middle and corrupt something.
Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Processor: Intel BX80613i7980X Core i7 980X Extreme Edition Processor
R.A.M.: Patriot Gamer Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model PGS312G1600ELK
Video Card: XFX AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Hydra Edition
Hard-Disk Drive/Solid-State Drive: OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive, Western Digital RE4 WD2003FYYS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 1200W
O.S.:Windows 10 Pro
Sound Card: Asus Xonar Essence STX Virtual 7.1 Channels