Randomly freezing when gaming/using applications

[Caircath]

Good evening everyone,

I have been having troubles with my PC for the last few months/year where it would freeze and play sound for a bit before making screeching sounds until I forced it to shut down. It’s gotten to the point where I play Oblivion it will freeze and crash.

I have attempted driver updates and fresh installs of windows with little to no luck. Im running out of ideas and could use your guys thoughts on what I could do to fix this problem. Why just five minutes ago it crashed trying to boot speccy and it froze in bios. Speaking of which here are my specs:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 -10700 CPU @2.90GHz

GPU:RTX 2060 Super

MB: MAG B460M Mortar WIFI (MS-7C82)

BIOS version:E7C82IMS.110

BIO build date: 5/18/2020

PSU: 550watts

Thanks everyone and anyone for any help you can give me!

[bullshark369]

First thing I'd try is reseating your ram, even try just booting it with 1 stick and changing which slot you use to check which slots work. You should also try updating your bios, or it could be is frayed cables or a misplaced standoff on your motherboard causing a short. To me it really sounds like a RAM issue. Make sure your rams CL speed MT speed and DDR factor are all compatible with your CPU and MB. I would say it's overheating but windows usually shuts itself down before stuff like that happens and it happened with you just loading into your bios so I don't think it's that. I'd also say it sounds like driver issues but you say you've updated them so that rules that out. 

[Caircath]

15 hours ago, bullshark369 said:

First thing I'd try is reseating your ram, even try just booting it with 1 stick and changing which slot you use to check which slots work. You should also try updating your bios, or it could be is frayed cables or a misplaced standoff on your motherboard causing a short. To me it really sounds like a RAM issue. Make sure your rams CL speed MT speed and DDR factor are all compatible with your CPU and MB. I would say it's overheating but windows usually shuts itself down before stuff like that happens and it happened with you just loading into your bios so I don't think it's that. I'd also say it sounds like driver issues but you say you've updated them so that rules that out. 

Hey Bullshark369, thanks for the response. I had tested the RAM using the Windows Memory Diagnostic a while back and no errors came up but I hadn't thought about reseating the RAM. I will update on my situation once I'm home.

I was worried about updating my bios, since a lot of sources claim that I shouldn't unless stated otherwise.

[Caircath]

So I reseated the RAM and doing a few tests on some games, I was able to do some FFXIV without it crashing immediately and some Space Marine 2. It seems to be doing pretty stable so far. 
usually by the 5 to 10 minute mark it would have froze and I would be forced to do a reset.

So far it’s working! If it continues to work for the next few days I’ll make the thread as resolved, thank you again!

[bullshark369]

16 hours ago, Caircath said:

So far it’s working! If it continues to work for the next few days I’ll make the thread as resolved, thank you again!

Glad I could help, usually crashing is a software error, but when it comes to hardware ram is always my first suspect.