broken hardware breaking other hardware?

[darkspeedy26]

hey everyone,

 

I got some wierd and consistent freezes, please help:

-about my system thats on my profile (was watercooled with a gtx770, ivy bridge i5 3570K,...)

-about parents pc: i5 3570K (same model as mine, but other mobo)

-every hardware change had a fresh install of windows on its bootdrive , mobo, cpu and cpu cooler of the 2 systems were always held together in the swapping

 

 

errors i had:

 

- wierd artifacts, even on desktop (did see it sooner on desktop than in osu! (simple 2D game),  IIRC the pixels were shown on the wrong place -> bought a gtx980Ti and new psu ( rm750i) and case -> works for about 2 months

 

- pc froze (freezes in windows, can still move mouse and click non reacting buttons for a while, after a couple minutes only mouse moving, weeks after that: mobo couldnt find the boot drive)  ->tought mobo and/or cpu must have died as well-> swapped mobo and cpu and boot ssd with parents pc -> works again for about 2 months

 

- i am having the freezing problem again (windows keeps stable ish for about 2 - 5 minutes for now) -> 

 

 

the only problem i can think is that my initial system infected components of my parents or new components

 

any advice/ help/more information needed?

 

 

thanks,

darkspeedy26

 

[don_svetlio]

Likely a PSU issue

EDIT: Or a board/HDD issue

[darkspeedy26]

6 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Likely a PSU issue

EDIT: Or a board/HDD issue

so basicaly its likely that its anything except gpu/cpu/ram, correct?

 

EDIT: still pretty vague

Edited February 26, 2016 by darkspeedy26

[Hackentosher]

The freezes could be caused by some corrupted operating system files. If you can, back up your information, format and reinstall Windows. I don't think it's a hardware issue, otherwise you would have trouble getting the system to boot or even post. Good luck.

[darkspeedy26]

Just now, Hackentosher said:

The freezes could be caused by some corrupted operating system files. If you can, back up your information, format and reinstall Windows. I don't think it's a hardware issue, otherwise you would have trouble getting the system to boot or even post. Good luck.

thanks, ill try to reinstall windows and ill report back

[Hackentosher]

6 minutes ago, darkspeedy26 said:

thanks, ill try to reinstall windows and ill report back

If you can run a virus scan, that will be a much safer and much less tedious task just to double check. If you can pull the drive, plug it in to a stable computer (I like to use sata to USB adapters for this) and run a scan from there.

 

make sure you back up all your data

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[darkspeedy26]

1 hour ago, Hackentosher said:

If you can run a virus scan, that will be a much safer and much less tedious task just to double check. If you can pull the drive, plug it in to a stable computer (I like to use sata to USB adapters for this) and run a scan from there.

 

make sure you back up all your data

.

installed windows 10 on an old unused hard drive, unplugged other drives, no problems so far. I will manage from here, many thanks 

[Hackentosher]

1 hour ago, darkspeedy26 said:

installed windows 10 on an old unused hard drive, unplugged other drives, no problems so far. I will manage from here, many thanks 

Yeah sounds like it was a corrupted operating system file or something.