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Whenever I run games, (BF4 and LOL) I experience almost immediate crashes. These are not the normal graphical DirectX errors. They are freezes that loop audio and allow mouse movement (obviously nothing can be clicked). About 50% of the time, just after startup, my PC just freezes. After pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, the system responds within 30 seconds to many hours. I usually force restart the PC and hope that it doesn't freeze again. At it's current state it is highly unstable and barely usable. I have tried to underclock my ram and overvolt it to no avail. I don't have 100% disk usage all of the time, but it happens quite often usually leading to freezes. 

 

My specs are:

 

Asus Z77 Sabertooth

I7-3770k stock speed (for sake of troubleshooting)

(4x4 GB) 16GB Corsair Dominator 1600mhz 9-9-9 1.65V

Gigabyte GTX 780 GHz Edition

 

 

Most importantly in this case: My SSD is a Crucial M500 480GB (I don't have a HDD) I believe that this may be causing the problem, but it's only a couple months old and I am not an uber-heavy user

 

 

All help would be appreciated. If you have any questions for me, please ask them! Thank you! (:

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What process is using so much of the disk?

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What process is using so much of the disk?

Nothing is. The process that was using so much was only at 0.7 MBps.

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Nothing is. The process that was using so much was only at 0.7 MBps.

But when it goes to 100% then what process is using the most?

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download procmon, may yield more detail as to the issue.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

 

I had a similar issue, and every time I'd go into taskmanager I'd see the process disappear after a split second.  I don;t remember what the process name was, but in my case it was a windows service that was going through the entire file system trying to sort out an issue. (think it was registry related).  anyways, I had to leave it alone and let it finish it's due diligence.

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But when it goes to 100% then what process is using the most?

I think it was just system

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I think it was just system

Have you tried reinstalling windows?

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download procmon, may yield more detail as to the issue.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

 

I had a similar issue, and every time I'd go into taskmanager I'd see the process disappear after a split second.  I don;t remember what the process name was, but in my case it was a windows service that was going through the entire file system trying to sort out an issue. (think it was registry related).  anyways, I had to leave it alone and let it finish it's due diligence.

So you are saying that when my pc freezes, I should leave it alone?

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Have you tried reinstalling windows?

Did that 2 days ago. I have a clean install besides games and necessary system apps (flash, java, etc.) 

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So you are saying that when my pc freezes, I should leave it alone?

 

No.  I am saying I had something similar and I had to leave it alone.

I am suggesting you try procmon in an attempt to find out what process is causing the load, and then find out what to do.

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No.  I am saying I had something similar and I had to leave it alone.

I am suggesting you try procmon in an attempt to find out what process is causing the load, and then find out what to do.

I am launching BF4 now preparing for a freeze

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I don't understand how this only happens sometimes

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I will take it in to the nearest pc repair shop if I can't find the answer.

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besides games and necessary system apps (flash, java, etc.) 

 

yup.  I bet that's your problem.  Windows is trying to fix your registry and fix incorrectly installed programs(games)

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yup. I bet that's your problem. Windows is trying to fix your registry and fix incorrectly installed programs(games)

What should I do?

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could be a virus or it could be a windows thing.
If it stays like this for more than a day and one restart, do a full virus removal. 
It could also be a drive near death.

 

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Is your SSD quite full?

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Try a defrag and doing a cleaning of the registry with Ccleaner or something. That pretty much saved an old 5400RPM 60GB drive I had in my old celeron laptop. 

 

 

 

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Can you run a Harddrive bench mark? Use AS SSD. Post a screenshot of your results. 

 

Is AHCI enabled?

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When I had this happening my drive was dead... but that shouldn't be the case here.

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