Constant freezing when playing games

[Kazriel Eversio]

My computer locks up and freezes to the point that I need to hard off it in order to restart it. Everything freezes, there's no sound, no blue screen, no error code, everything just locks in place and nothing works. No alt F4, no Control alt delete, even the lights on my keyboard indicating numlock etc are frozen in their on or off state. I've tried everything I can think of, but to no avail. I've tried using memtest, HWInfo, Speccy, 3DMark, I looked at event viewer but there's no recording other than "Computer turned off unexpectedly" error. I tried updating drivers, uninstalling via DDU, reinstalling video card drivers through safe mode, I tried stepping the video card drivers down to the last two or three thinking there was an error in the recent updates, nothing. My computer recently had a catastrophic failure, and ended up frying the motherboard and processor, so I replaced them. In doing so, I also had to replace my RAM as well. When my computer had it's incident I thought it was a PSU failure, so I had that replaced through EVGA. Pretty much the only thing that isn't new in my computer at this point are the hard drives and the GPU, however after pulling out the GPU and testing with onboard graphics, it still freezes. I've reinstalled windows twice now, and still got freezes on both of them. Any help can be appreciated. I can't play games for more than fifteen or twenty minutes if I'm lucky.

 

CPU: Intel i7-8700K stock, aftermarket cryorig H7 cooler.
GPU: STRIX GTX 970 stock
MOBO: MSI z370 Gaming Plus
RAM: G.Skill FORTIS (2x8gb)
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1200 Platinum (I know it's overkill, I was running a 1k before I sent it back to EVGA for replacement, but they were out of 1k so they gave me the 1200 instead.)

[Onboard87]

are you overclocking?

[Onboard87]

12 minutes ago, Kazriel Eversio said:

My computer locks up and freezes to the point that I need to hard off it in order to restart it. Everything freezes, there's no sound, no blue screen, no error code, everything just locks in place and nothing works. No alt F4, no Control alt delete, even the lights on my keyboard indicating numlock etc are frozen in their on or off state. I've tried everything I can think of, but to no avail. I've tried using memtest, HWInfo, Speccy, 3DMark, I looked at event viewer but there's no recording other than "Computer turned off unexpectedly" error. I tried updating drivers, uninstalling via DDU, reinstalling video card drivers through safe mode, I tried stepping the video card drivers down to the last two or three thinking there was an error in the recent updates, nothing. My computer recently had a catastrophic failure, and ended up frying the motherboard and processor, so I replaced them. In doing so, I also had to replace my RAM as well. When my computer had it's incident I thought it was a PSU failure, so I had that replaced through EVGA. Pretty much the only thing that isn't new in my computer at this point are the hard drives and the GPU, however after pulling out the GPU and testing with onboard graphics, it still freezes. I've reinstalled windows twice now, and still got freezes on both of them. Any help can be appreciated. I can't play games for more than fifteen or twenty minutes if I'm lucky.

 

have you tested your Ram, CPU, and GPU for signs of damage after the power failure?

[Grifterguru]

6 minutes ago, Onboard87 said:

have you tested your Ram, CPU, and GPU for signs of damage after the power failure?

 

21 minutes ago, Kazriel Eversio said:

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Pretty much the only thing that isn't new in my computer at this point are the hard drives and the GPU

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Since you have eliminated all but the  HDD....

You do not mention what type your storage devices are? SSD? SSHD? or standard HDD?
(i know I am not the only one who refers to an SSD or SSHD as a HDD, mulitple people I know do too).

could it be the HDD (possibly failing) that is causing the issue?

[Onboard87]

1 minute ago, Grifterguru said:

could it be the HDD (possibly failing) that is causing the issue?

if the HDD or SSD was the issue it would have to freeze every time the drive is accessed from my experience. 

[Grifterguru]

Not necessarily.... Which is why I asked if it could be the HDD causing the issue in the first place.

It is worth trying a different drive, if only to eliminate it (the HDD) as being an issue.

Only other thing I can think of is thermal issues or BIOS settings being an issue. I have known (historically) both to cause a pc to "Freeze" with the only option availble being to "hard off" then restart.

[Onboard87]

18 minutes ago, Grifterguru said:

Not necessarily.... Which is why I asked if it could be the HDD causing the issue in the first place.

thats good to know thanks for the new info!