Random locks ups...

[The Overlord]

As the title says, my PC will randomly lock up, and has been doing this since I built the first version of my PC years back...

 

Without any warning, it will freeze, if audio was playing, it will infinitely repeat whatever note was playing at the time, all my monitors will freeze on the frame that was up at the time, video, game, or just... sitting on my desktop idling, doesn't matter too much, it will lock up anyways.

 

I've sometimes gone 2 minutes without it happening, sometimes I've gone as long as 3 days.

When it happens NOTHING responds.  I have to press the reset switch or press and hold the power button.

 

I have the Corsair K95 RGB keyboard, and the light patterns on that will even freeze when this happens, and during reboot will stay frozen until CUE runs again (normal bootup will cause the lights to be 100% off without CUE running)

 

Parts seem to not matter since I've replaced every last part on this computer, inside and out, and it's continued to do this anyways, but I will list specs at the end of this to make sure.

I've also built maybe 45-50 PCs for people, have never gotten reports of this happening before, only on mine.

 

I have also never seen a bluescreen, this only locks the exact image on my screen, from the moment of the lockup.

 

 

 

Now for my specs, but since I have no idea what could be doing this, I'm going to list EVERYTHING I've got going on here, to be extra certain a driver or something isn't involved (every part may have changed I tend to stay with the same companies)

 

Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z

CPU: AMD FX-8370E

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 32GB (4x8) 1600

PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1200 P2

GPU: Sapphire R9 280x Vapor-x Tri-x (x2)

Case: CM Styker

HDD: WD Black 750 GB, WD Black 1TB

SSD: Samsung 8x0 EVO 128GB

Optical Drive: Unknown model ASUS drive

Camera: Logitech C910

Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB

Mouse: EVGA Torque X10 Carbon

Headset/Mic: Cyborg F.R.E.Q. 7

Microphone: Blue Spark Digital

Monitor: ASUS VG248QE (x3), Sony Bravia

Speakers: Digital optical soundbar+woof, 3.5mm center monitor, HDMI TV

LED: Random USB LED strip, unknown info.

Cooling: NZXT Kraken X41, 200mm x1, 120mm x2, 140mm x2

Gamepad: Xbox 360, Dualshock 4

NIC: ASUS PCE-AC68

Phone: Sony Xperia Z3

Flight Stick: Cyborg Flight Stick V1

Eye Tracker: Steelseries Sentry

 

Probably overkill to list literally everything I have plugged in to this system, but since it happens even though I've replaced EVERY part, I figured I'd list it all to see I'm missing something, when I tried to figure this out myself.

 

Every version of my PC has also been on Windows 7 Ultimate x64

[SkywardKkalox]

HDD/SSD Depending on where your OS is, is dying. Happened to me some years back. Just had to get a new HDD and reinstall an OS.

[The Overlord]

I thought that a few years ago, and replaced the HDD, it still happened though.  Now 2 years back, I got an SSD for a boot drive, and it's continued to happen still.

Fully formatting all drives involved, each time I changed boot drives.

 

Once upon a time I used to boot from my 2TB green drive, that is currently my coaster on my desk.

I figured either the low RPM or age of the drive was an issue, so grabbed a 1TB Black, didn't matter either though.

The SSD was just an upgrade for the sake of an upgrade, but it also hadn't made a difference.

[The Overlord]

Has happened three times since last post now...