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Can anyone help find the cause of my random windows freezes and BSODs?

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So I've had my new main rig up and running for a while now, and it's pretty much fine, except for random BSODs, all with different errors. Additionally, sometimes windows will freeze up completely for several seconds, and during this time I am only able to move my cursor. It always recovers though, and shortly starts working fine again. I think this might be a ram issue, do you agree? How should I go about finding the issue? This is the PC in my signature and on my profile. 

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What are some of the examples of the errors you are getting? 

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2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

What are some of the examples of the errors you are getting? 

I don't remember any of them, but they were all very vague, it's only happened 3-4 times. If it happens again I will update you. I should also mention that is worse under load, but it seems the freezing is relatively constant. 

 

Edit:

By vague I mean errors with many causes

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I had a lot of this, turned out to be bad ram. How old is your rig? If it's new, maybe a stick is bad. If not, it couldn't help to make sure they're running at their listed speeds.

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4*4 Assorted DDR4 at 2400mhz

That's problematic. Mixed RAM, and slow/probably cheap RAM at that. Pull all but the matched sticks, see if its stable.

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