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kasunt
By kasunt
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Hi experts,

 

First post here. First and foremost Linus, Slick & the team good job on the forum  :)

 

Well my problem simply is random freezes Im getting on an Intel i3 PC ive put together. During the freezes I know for a fact that its not doing anything that hogs the resources. I don't know where to begin with the diagnostics. I'll list the build components here. Drivers and OS are up to date.

 

Mobo: Asus P8Z77-V (running bios version 1908 - 03/14/2013. I believe this the latest bios)

CPU: Intel i3-2130 CPU running at stock.

Mem: G-Skill DDR3 F3-10666CL9-8GBXL 8GB running at 667MHz x2 (16 GB in total)

GPU: Using on board Intel HD 2000

Boot HD: Intel SSD SC2CT060A3 60GB

Sec HD 1: WDC WD10EVVS-63E1B0 1TB

Sec HD 2: WDC WD20EARX-00ZUDB0 2TB

OS: Windows 7 64bit Ultimate

 

If anyone can give me any tips I'd appreciate it a lot. Thanks in advance.

 

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Hi..when the system freezes do you need to do a reset of the computer? Does Windows issue a "Windows has recovered from"..prompt ?

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Yes windows does give that.. I need to reset the PC when it freezes.

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Is there a possibility that a hardware incompatibility could cause this ?

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It just sound like a motherboard/ram compatibility issue.

 

>G-Skill DDR3 F3-10666CL9-8GBXL 8GB running at 667MHz

 

so G-Skill 1333 sticks?  Are these a Dual-Channel kit?  Could you try something for me and pull one stick out and see if the freezing continues.  Then try the other stick for a while.  Also, try different sockets.  Use a burn in test for 24 hours straight if you can like prime95 and you might find you have either a bad stick of ram or a bad motherboard ram slot.  Or, even weirder, a stick of ram that doesn't work in a particular slot.  I'm not kidding.

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hey thanks man. atleast thats a good start :). will give it a go and see if it continues

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