Constant Freezes without BSOD

[drcx]

Last summer I built my first PC with the following specs:
Motherboard: GA-Z170-HD3P

CPU: i5-6600K

GPU: Zotac GTX 1060 6GB Mini

RAM: PNY 16GB (8Gbx2) 2133MHz

SSD: 750Gb 840 EVO

 

Seemingly randomly, it just freezes, no BSOD, just freezes up. It has to be hard reset when it freezes. All of the errors in the Event Viewer are useless because they all come after the restart and are about not being shut down properly. The freezes happen at any time, sometimes at idle, sometimes when I'm gaming. The one time it almost always freezes is during the map loading phase of CS:GO, when it happens almost 70% of the time. Over the last 6 months I've tried to find the issue. I tried running memtest which didn't produce any errors but did give a "ram may be vulnerable to high frequency row hammer bit flips" note on all 4 passes. Which makes me think that it could be a RAM issue. But i also tried to run off of the iGPU for a while to see if the GPU was causing the issue. It still froze, but when I was running the iGPU instead of just staying stuck on the last frame, the monitor showed a weird interference signal that kept changing after the freeze. Which makes me think the issue could be with the CPU/iGPU. The system still froze with the iGPU disabled. All of my parts minus the SSD are still under warranty so I can RMA them. I would like to know for sure before going through that process. Any advice is helpful, thanks in advance! 

[LabRat]

ever look into sound driver conflicts?

[Punk91903]

i had a 960 and a g3258 the gpu was fully over clocked as far a afterburner whould let me go and the cpu was on stock speeds (3.2)and it did the same thing so i turned down the gpu per clock and oced my ram and the problem stopped. btw i had the same problem

[Ryujin2003]

Event viewer isn't useless. What time was the freeze? What was going on? Look at system and applications tab. Send a screenshot of a couple freezes and what's going on around that time.

[drcx]

35 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

Event viewer isn't useless. What time was the freeze? What was going on? Look at system and applications tab. Send a screenshot of a couple freezes and what's going on around that time.

The first one happened at 7:21 and the second at 7:29. I made sure to wait a minute before restarting the computer so the post-restart messages start at  7:22 and 7:30 respectivly

[Ryujin2003]

1 hour ago, drcx said:

The first one happened at 7:21 and the second at 7:29. I made sure to wait a minute before restarting the computer so the post-restart messages start at  7:22 and 7:30 respectivly

What is that KernelPnP at 7:22? Got anything for Applications? This is the System tab. Also, anything unidentified in Device Manager?

[drcx]

1 hour ago, Ryujin2003 said:

What is that KernelPnP at 7:22? Got anything for Applications? This is the System tab. Also, anything unidentified in Device Manager?

Here are the respective logs from the Application tab. The Kernel-PnP error was: The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\WPDBUSENUM\_??_USBSTOR#Disk&Ven_Lexar&Prod_USB_Flash_Drive&Rev_1100#AAI7T1WE00UOEF2B&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}.

[drcx]

I solved the issue, turns out one of my ram sticks was bad. I guess I'll just have to go with 8GB for now...