PC Freezing when playing games.

[ELLYOT]

Hello!

 

For the past few days I have been experiencing freezing when I play any game, at random times, it freezes and becomes unresponsive forcing me to press the reset button on my PC. 

 

My PC specs:

 

CPU: Intel i5 4690K

GPU: MSI GTX 970 (Drivers up to date)

MOBO: MSI GAMING 5 Z97

PSU: CORSAIR 600W 

RAM: HYPER X FURY 8GB

 

WINDOWS 10

 

I have measured the GPU & CPU temps and usage when this happens, here are the readings: 

 

GPU TEMP: 66 DEGREES

GPU USAGE: 59%

 

CPU TEMP: 59 DEGREES

CPU USAGE: 73%

 

I have ran a GPU stress test with FurMark and here are the results:

 

MIN TEMP - 53 DEGREES

MAX TEMP - 74 DEGREES

 

I have ran a CPU stress test with IntelBurnTest at ''high'' stress level and here are the results:

 

CPU MIN TEMP: 37 DEGREES

 

CPU MAX TEMP: 73 DEGREES

  

I have ran the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool, no problems.

 

I have ran valley benchmark with zero crashing.

 

I then went into Reliability Monitor and found something, the problem states ''hardware error''

 

Problem Event Name:    LiveKernelEvent
Code:    144
 

I have no overclocking set, I have updated all drivers, all windows updates, reinstalled games, reinstalled windows.

 

I have a feeling my GPU might actually have become faulty, hopefully not but I was hoping somebody would be able to help me with this? Not sure what else I could try? 

 

Not sure if this is related, but when I switch my PC on in the morning, it makes a clicking sound continuously for about 30 minutes and then stops. I figured this was just a case fan going bad, maybe this is not related, I'm not sure.  

 

Please help, LOL!!

 

 

[SysAdminInTraining]

Try running /sfc scannow as an Admin on CMD.

 

I would even look into rolling back to Windows 7 or 8. I had unexplained issues out the butt with Windows 10. Only lasted about 3 hours with it before rolling back.

[ELLYOT]

Hi bud,

 

Tired the scan and everything seems okay, I get this message

 

"Windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations"

 

The thing is, it's only recently it's happening, I have used the same driver and it's been okay which is why it leads me to think it's actually an hardware issue. 

[Praesi]

Run the Tool "memtest" to make sure your RAM is ok. Windowstools are not the best. RAM Cluster usage in Games is all over place. Run memtest in several instances each 1024mb till you reach your total amount of memory. This can take many hours.