Computer freezing multiple times

[patrickgamboa]

Hello! This is my first account and post, because I really need help with my computer. What is happening right now is that my computer freezing numerous times almost every 5 mins, and had to force shut down every time and it really is annoying me for hours as well as I can't get anything working. Here are my specs:

- Windows 7 Home Edition

- i7 920 @ 2.67GHz

- Kingston SSD 240GB

- 8GB RAM DDR3 SDRAM

- NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti

- 525W power supply

 

Just three weeks ago, I bought and replaced my original 1TB 5400 rpm internal hard drive, because I thought the diagnostics said that the hard drive was a failure (or broken), and considering that it would always free on bootup, I thought it was clear, that I needed to upgrade now to a solid state hard drive. After installing that SSD, everything was working perfectly fast, everything was booting up smoothly, only installed Origin, Battlefield 1 and Kaspersky as the only softwares into my computer (and NVIDIA driver software support). The following week, I installed Windows 7 updates as regular, everything seemed fined, until after those updates were installed, my computer started slowing down, and not to mention, my computer is now starting to freeze again on bootup and now I'm literally panicking and don't know anymore what to do with this computer.

 

It came to a series of questions to me about this computer, on why it is freezing up?

- Are the Windows 7 updates causing all of this computer slow down and freezing?

- If I were to reformat my computer brand new, without installing Windows 7 updates, will this solve my computer freezing problems?

- If people were to tell me, you should still install Windows 7, but only a few selected ones, which ones should I most importantly install?

- If the SSD isn't the problem because I just upgraded it, then what exactly causes my computer to freeze? Is it the RAM? the CPU? the Power Supply? the Motherboard?

 

If there is anyone here who can help me, I would greatly appreciate the person's help.

 

Thank you so much guys!

[Mr.Meerkat]

Temps?

What PSU is it?

Try running your RAM in another slot if it's a single stick or if it's 2 sticks then try running with only one stick inserted (or better, try utilising a memory tester)

 

16 minutes ago, patrickgamboa said:

If I were to reformat my computer brand new, without installing Windows 7 updates, will this solve my computer freezing problems?

Possibly. If you just imaged your HDD across then it may cause some issues. 

[LabRat]

if you didn't disconnect your old HD I would do it now.

turn off all automatic updates ( windows updates/auto driver updates/kaspersky auto updates. I would also shut down kaspersky auto run/scan features.

uninstall the nvidia drivers. reboot and do a custom or advanced install. ONLY install the graphics driver and physx drivers. NOTHING else. reboot.

after doing that, open the device manager. look for sound drivers. disable/uninstall all sound drivers you are not using.

check all heat sinks and fans for clogs or dirt build up......... especially the cpu and gpu.

when is the last time you removed the heat sink from the cpu and cleaned up the old thermal paste and reapplied new?

did you set up TRIM and make all other appropriate settings for the SSD? ( google what you need to do ).( pagefile/indexing, etc. ).