Random freezes (hard reboot required)

[Fawkes McCloud]

Hello everybody and I'm having some bad time using this PC lately, I'm getting random freezes and must hard reboot cause of them. The freezes can occur on desktop (without anything running), while web-browsing or in games (most of the times).

I can't narrow the problem though, I ran 3h stress tests on everything separately and it was fine.

 

OS: MS Windows 10 Pro x64

Specs: (nothing is overclocked)

Spoiler

PSU Chieftec A135 Series APS-650C (650W)

Motherboard  Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 (BIOS Version 2701 - lastest one)

CPU QuadCore AMD FX-4100, 3600 MHz

Memory x2 Corsair XMS3 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 4GB 

GPU Sapphire AMD HD 7750 1GB (Sapphire Radeon R7 250)

HDD WD Scorpio Blue 500GB

I don't have any dumps but can provide almost full report from AIDA64

Report.txt

[Squish4058]

Does the sound freeze when this happens, and the mouse. Also next time it does tell me if the HDD light is solid.

My best guess so far is one of the drivers for somethig is coded horrifically badly, you should try running it in safe mode with networking and living with it for a day or so, seeing if the problem continues to exist

[Fawkes McCloud]

1 hour ago, kris2340k said:

Does the sound freeze when this happens, and the mouse. Also next time it does tell me if the HDD light is solid.

My best guess so far is one of the drivers for somethig is coded horrifically badly, you should try running it in safe mode with networking and living with it for a day or so, seeing if the problem continues to exist

Yes the sound and mouse freezes as well. And I don't have HDD lights, my case have only one button (and one LED there) and it's POWER only

[Squish4058]

10 minutes ago, Fawkes McCloud said:

Yes the sound and mouse freezes as well. And I don't have HDD lights, my case have only one button and it's POWER only

This is the comprimise for a nice clean front panel lol, a HDD light is the most overpowered thing when it comes to finding pc problems

[Fawkes McCloud]

1 hour ago, kris2340k said:

This is the comprimise for a nice clean front panel lol, a HDD light is the most overpowered thing when it comes to finding pc problems

I can actually make one once I get right connectors, since I have a lot of spare LEDs and resistors and stuff like that. Should do I guess, though I need some information about voltage and stuff lel (but I can google it myself this time)

[Squish4058]

As I said the HDD light is useful but the best thing you can do right now (before you go soldering stuff to your own motherboard I reccomend you fix the current issue lol)
is to run it in safe mode with networking, tell me if the issue happens, if it does run it in safe mode without networking and see if it repeats

[Fawkes McCloud]

1 hour ago, kris2340k said:

As I said the HDD light is useful but the best thing you can do right now (before you go soldering stuff to your own motherboard I reccomend you fix the current issue lol)
is to run it in safe mode with networking, tell me if the issue happens, if it does run it in safe mode without networking and see if it repeats

Well then I will write here back once I'll try it all, it's 2AM here so, I will just leave it for a night with networking enabled and next day with networking disabled

[Fawkes McCloud]

So about 8 hours of stress testing and it seems ok in safe mode with networking 

EDIT: nothing happened what so ever

[Squish4058]

12 hours ago, Fawkes McCloud said:

So about 8 hours of stress testing and it seems ok in safe mode with networking 

EDIT: nothing happened what so ever

So basically, safe mode only runs windows (microsoft approved) drivers, such a case is true on a fresh install of windows or a new pc.

As you update drivers, update windows and other things other drivers gets added, one of these is messing up your system. So you should probably go into device manager and start rolling back drivers until the problem goes away. Ofcourse it takes long and if it was me I would reinstall windows and install 1 driver a week until it breaks. But thats me

[Fawkes McCloud]

1 hour ago, kris2340k said:

So basically, safe mode only runs windows (microsoft approved) drivers, such a case is true on a fresh install of windows or a new pc.

As you update drivers, update windows and other things other drivers gets added, one of these is messing up your system. So you should probably go into device manager and start rolling back drivers until the problem goes away. Ofcourse it takes long and if it was me I would reinstall windows and install 1 driver a week until it breaks. But thats me

The problem I reinstalled it like 3 days ago  And installed only AMD graphic driver, realtek HD audio, and Daemon Tools required ones

[Squish4058]

10 minutes ago, Fawkes McCloud said:

The problem I reinstalled it like 3 days ago  And installed only AMD graphic driver, realtek HD audio, and Daemon Tools required ones

Well it has to be one of them. Or you can be in the hell im in, and the built in microsoft wireless driver is driving my own wireless driver to the heavens and back

[Fawkes McCloud]

1 hour ago, kris2340k said:

Well it has to be one of them. Or you can be in the hell im in, and the built in microsoft wireless driver is driving my own wireless driver to the heavens and back

Oh daymn, well I don't have a wifi just regular DSL ^^

[Fawkes McCloud]

so apparently last driver I can check is AMD Graphics ones, though the problem is since most of the PC freezes occur while I'm in game, should I just revert to older versions I think will work or just stick with windows default one, without games and such - no way to test it in games like tomb raider/gta V and etc?

 

P.S

It did it even in starbound kek

[Fawkes McCloud]

oh well, it is still with me got a lot worse lately. Anyhow here's the best part of updated Radeon Settings, graphs. The moment I turned on youtube video (look at the spikes).

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Anyhow soon I'll replace the GPU, but the question is different now: could it be bad PSU that causing throttling? Or motherboard problems? 

 

Just wondering, I will know for sure if that wasn't GPU if the problem will stay with new GPU.

 

 

 

Also reset button doesn't do much. After I press it, only fans spin and the screen remains black, no POST beeps or anything. So yeah only option is Hard Reset