I need help.

[Pondskipper]

Hello

 

I'm new to computer building.  I just built my new computer based on guides I watched from linus tech tips.  I have a 6600k on a EVGA FTW board.  No GPU yet (saving up).  Everything installed and worked without a hitch....but after a week my computer has started to lock up completely.  Usually when watching youtube/twitch.  I want to fix this myself, but I don't even know where to begin.  There is no log or blue screen that happens.  The computer just completely locks up and you can't type/move mouse or anything.  I have to hit the reset button and start over.  The computer doesn't seem to know it crashed either.  Once it loads up it's like nothing happened.  

 

My only question is, what would you all do from here?  How do you go about diagnosing this without anywhere to start.

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

-Pond

[GDRRiley]

what PSU do you have

[Pondskipper]

CX750M Corsair

 

[NicekillBG]

reinstall windows

[TheRandomness]

Download something like openhardwaremonitor and see what temperatures it's getting to. It might be thermal throttling and shutting down due to excessive temps.

[Pondskipper]

I have both hwmonitor and openhardware.  Nothing is out of the norm.  even under load it doesn't get high.  I have the CPU water cooled with an h80i and several fans. 

[BingoFishy]

Any OC?

[Pondskipper]

Nope.  I was going to once I got my GPU.  but for the time being it's all the basic settings.  

[zootcake]

15 minutes ago, NicekillBG said:

reinstall windows

agreed

[TheRandomness]

6 minutes ago, Pondskipper said:

I have both hwmonitor and openhardware.  Nothing is out of the norm.  even under load it doesn't get high.  I have the CPU water cooled with an h80i and several fans. 

What temps specifically?

[Unhelpful]

16 minutes ago, NicekillBG said:

reinstall windows

OP ignore this. Never make reinstalling windows your first step unless a couple minutes old.

 

Run memtest86 and crystaldiskinfo.

[Pondskipper]

The temps never above 50 degrees on the cpu.  Never above that on anything actually.  

[Pondskipper]

Lemme do the memtest and crystaldiskinfo thing.  Brb.

[Omon_Ra]

Try several different browsers (Edge, Firefox, Chrome and Vivaldi) and see if it still happens. If it only happens with one of the browsers, then you can start to diagnose further from there. As far as I know, Twitch still uses Flash for video and hasn't updated to HTML5 yet, so make sure your Flash is up to date. YouTube should switch to HTML5 if Flash is disabled/not installed. Make sure your iGPU drivers are up to date as well.

 

Since it's a relatively new build, a reinstallation of Windows wouldn't be a bad idea.

[vanished]

moved to troubleshooting

[Pondskipper]

Thanks, relatively new to posting.  Didn't know where to put it.

[NicekillBG]

2 hours ago, Pondskipper said:

Thanks, relatively new to posting.  Didn't know where to put it.

What have you installed on it

like programs