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justintech16
By justintech16
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Hello. My computer has been freezing lately. A really bad "freeze". My entire computer won't respond to anything, so I have to hard reset it. Whatever is on screen stops or "freezes" sometimes accompanied by a fast weird beeping noise coming from my computer speakers. Ctrl+Alt+Del does nothing at all. My computer just stops. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to the crashes. It crashed in Skyrim a few times. It crashed 5 seconds into the Unigine Heaven bencmark. It crashed while I was on  Youtube and Facebook. 

Here are my specs:

Intel dx48bt2 motherboard

Intel Core 2 Quad q9550 stock

8gb ram

xfx radeon 6950 1gb

Mushkin Chronos 120gb SSD

WD Velociraptor 140gb Hard Drive

800w Power Supply

Windows 7 Home 64bit

 

I am pretty sure I have all of the latest drivers. My first thought was that the graphics card was going bad. I swapped the 6950 for my old geforce 9600 gt and the symptoms stopped. I ended up sending the 6950 back to xfx for an RMA and they couldn't find anything wrong with it.

 

Any suggestions?

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check you RAM swap it out with something else, RAM is quite a usual suspect for errors

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PSU is going down? It could be, 9600GT require quite less power than 6950.

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I did a windows ram test. There were no issues there.

 

 

Huh. I was thinking it was the power supply for a few seconds. It isn't 80plus anything certified. It is somewhat old. Probably as old as the core 2 quad.  It is a BFG 800w power supply.

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do you use a creative sound card or have creative software installed on your system?

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I have a creative sound blaster x-fi xtreme pci sound card.

Do you think that could cause anything?

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Yes that will be the cause its a well know problem, i had the same problem for ages, i removed the card and software and the freezes stopped completely.

----Ryzen R9 5900X----X570 Aorus elite----Vetroo V5----240GB Kingston HyperX 3k----Samsung 250GB EVO840----512GB Kingston Nvme----3TB Seagate----4TB Western Digital Green----8TB Seagate----32GB Patriot Viper 4 3200Mhz CL 16 ----Power Color Red dragon 5700XT----Fractal Design R4 Black Pearl ----Corsair RM850w----

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did you overclock it? beacause my old pc did crash at the os after i overclocked it wrong, after that mine wont boot after i overclocked it and it is running barely at my dads mini office at home, but your psu could be another problem

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That's kind of odd. I guess I will try things without the sound card. I wonder why it would freeze up the whole computer.

 

 

 

 

It was slightly overclocked a little while ago. But then I took it back to stock and still had issues. XFX couldn't find anything wrong with it.

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