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EldrickLew
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Recently I've replace my Corsair VS450 80+ for my PC to a SuperFlower 80+ Silver 500W and also added a 480gb ssd for game storage. Since then, my pc will often freeze for about 6 seconds and then resume whatever is running on prior. The load and hdd led are both lit up when the freezing happens. What could be the cause of this and what can I do to prevent it from happening again?

 

My PC Specs:

CPU: Intel i5 8400

Cooler: Deepcool Gammaxx GT air cooler

Motherboard: MSI B360 Gaming Pro Carbon

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8gb x 2 @ 2666

GPU: Zotac 1060 6gb AMP!

Storage: Kingston 240gb A1000 M.2, 480gb Kingston A400 SATA ssd, 1tb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm

PSU: SuperFlower 80+ Silver 500w

Fans: 3x Deepcool RF120, 2x Tecware 140 and 1x Tecware 120

Case: Tecware Nexus ATX

Others: Deepcool 200 RGB Pro (2 rgb strips)

Peripherals: Tecware Phantom keyboard, Logitech G703, Steelseries Arctis 5 2019

 

Everything is running stock.

 

 

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does using the old PSU remove the problem?

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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2 minutes ago, Ivan Inkoustek said:

It might be a hard drive related problem if only your prior tasks resume, maybye look if your Satas dont have some kind of dust on them. Or just try the old PSU again.

I rewired everything when I changed my PSU. My system is only about 4months old.

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1 minute ago, EldrickLew said:

The reason I changed the PSU was actually because my PC was freezing frequently

20 minutes ago, EldrickLew said:

Since then, my pc will often freeze for about 6 seconds and then resume whatever is running on prior.

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are you running a lot of background tasks?

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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18 minutes ago, EldrickLew said:

I can have chrome, discord and Spotify running and my PC will freeze suddenly 

does Windows recognize all your memory?

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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OK, then we can rule out the PSU.

 

Guess you already have filled your new SSD with games? If not, disconnect the other drives and install windows on that drive to see if the problem continues? 

 

You either have a bad install/drivers or some HW-issue, we need to pinpoint it. 

 

Have you reset your BIOS/UEFI to defaults to rule out any bad OC/RAM-timings?

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1 hour ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

OK, then we can rule out the PSU.

 

Guess you already have filled your new SSD with games? If not, disconnect the other drives and install windows on that drive to see if the problem continues? 

 

You either have a bad install/drivers or some HW-issue, we need to pinpoint it. 

 

Have you reset your BIOS/UEFI to defaults to rule out any bad OC/RAM-timings?

Ok, I'll start with doing a fresh install of windows and see if the problem still persists.

 

Hw wise will see if disconnecting the drives will help.

BIOS/UEFI has been reset and will try to see if the problem is still there

 

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Is windows running on the HDD?

If so: have you checked the health of the HDD?

To me, this seems to be more a problem of the HDD than of the PSU.

Does the HDD make strange noises while the pc froze? (If yes, then try to immediately backup your data. I'm 99% sure that the problem is then caused by the (failing) HDD)

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