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Computer Randomly Locking Up When Playing Games

Hey guys.

So I've been having an issue with my computer locking up and freezing during games. I've troubleshooted this as down as I can but I can't seem to get any further to the root of the problem..

It doesn't seem to matter which game, demanding or not. I've had it happen with BF4/BFH and also with Ori And The Blind forest, the latter being far less demanding than the other two. Everything will freeze up but I can still hear any looping game sounds like background ambient noise, where other sounds like gunfire and active play have all dissapeared. I can also still talk to my friends on skype for as long as I care until holding down the power button to shut the system off. It also seems to happen at random intervals. Last night it kept happening within 30~ minute segements where as the previous night it took around 2 hours to finally happen. This morning it took 3 hours until a freeze. I've had it happen in the past but now it's starting to become more and more frequent. 

I've tried doing a Mem Check, nothing came up.
Did a disk check, nothing came up.
Updated my bios
Did a clean installation of my graphics drivers
Checked for firmware updates on my SSD
Cleaned out the registry 
Temps and Voltages are fine
Nothing is overclocked

This pic is right after a freeze. the 66 Degree on my GPU was because I didn't have the fans turned all the way up, maxed out at 54 after that.

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So I'm a little lost and can't figure anything further. You guys got any ideas?

oh and speccy:

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I guess the last ditch effort is to re-install windows and see if that works v.gif kinda sounds like a driver problem at this point..

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Did you have this problem with an older driver for your graphics card? This happened to me once with Nvidia, and I just reinstalled the graphics driver and it worked fine again.

 

Either that, or uninstall your current graphics driver and install and older version.

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Did you have this problem with an older driver for your graphics card? This happened to me once with Nvidia, and I just reinstalled the graphics driver and it worked fine again.

 

Either that, or uninstall your current graphics driver and install and older version.

 

I believe it was happening with the past driver.  Though I'm not averse to trying an older driver for a bit to make sure I'm correct.

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So I did a super duper clean install of the graphics drivers (the latest ones) using this guide:  http://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/2ha3q9/howto_fresh_driver_install_for_new_gpu_or_any

 

Just played BF:H for 2 and a half hours and no freezes.  I'll keep playing for the rest of the day and report back tomorow or when it freezes on my results!

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Welp.  No luck.  Played BFH for 3 more hours then it froze.  Happened again like, hour and a half later, then it happened another 30 minutes later..

 

Guess I'll re-install windows?

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Dug out a multi meter and checked out the 12V rail while idle and playing a game.  Everything seems to check out there.  I was ideling around 12.3 and playing a game it was a consistant 12.22 until it froze again.

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So re-installing windows has seemed to do the trick.  I don't know what was causing it and I wish I did.  

 

Though, of course, a new problem has replaced it, now my graphics drivers crash every so often, but not as often as the freezing was occurring.  Oh well :v

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