System locking up

[hihihi8]

hi guys, recently my PC's been having some issues for no reason. its been stable for about 2 months after i converted my old pc into an itx. it started out as driver errors which caused constant blue screens every few minutes (confirmed using verifier). System restore didnt work (it did nothing,not even erase my third party apps), so seeing as it was beyond salvation, i decided to clean install windows from a brand new iso from microsoft. The installation went relatively smoothly, and now i dont get bluescreens anymore. however, the system now locks up when I bump th table or sometimes when i slap my mouse down. this never happened in the past. I havent installed any updates or tried any new software recently, nor have i made any hardware changes. I initially thought the bluescreens were from bad ram, i got the same error everytime when i was having bluescreen so the probability of bad ram should be quote low (its new ram too). I also know that it cant be a harddrive, since i use a m.2 nvme as my boot drive. What could be causing this issue? any help appreciated, thanks

[bleedblue]

Something could be not seated properly in the pc. Try reseating everything.

What the error message when it BSODs?

[hihihi8]

2 minutes ago, bleedblue said:

Something could be not seated properly in the pc. Try reseating everything.

What the error message when it BSODs?

i dont remember the initial one exactly, but it was a recurring error code,and googling it turned up results on driver corruption. the one i got repeatedly was driver verifier detection violated. it would happen before i even got to windows, and would cause the system to restart, in an endless cycle of bsod's. safe mode would work, so it was clearly a third party driver thst was the culprit. i was too lazy to keep digging so i just reinstalled. now i don't even get bluescreens, just locks up and everything stops moving.

[hihihi8]

could it be a bad ssd? maybe it doesnt hold its 0's and 1's correctly and corrupts the data. the drive is pretty old, a 3 year old 950pro thats been on for like 18 hours a day constantly. ram on the other hand is brand new. i didnt have 16g sticks for the dual-slot itx mb, so i got new sticks instead

 

full system specs:

 

asrock x99e-itx mobo

i7-5930k aio liquid cooled

samsung 950 pro as boot drive

2 hdds as mass storage

RM1000 psu

gtx 1070 gpu

 

ps: could it also have something to do with the mouse? for example how the razer driver deals with the sensor being engaged/disengaged rapidly when viibrations happen and end up locking up?

[bleedblue]

29 minutes ago, hihihi8 said:

 

If it happens when the table is shaken, I really feel like there's a loose connection somewhere. Maybe the GPU isn't seated in the pcie slot properly, a loose sata cable, or even the m.2 slot.

[roelversteeg]

Can you get into the BIOS? im wondering if the cpu isnt simply overheating or if it is seated correctly.

[hihihi8]

2 hours ago, roelversteeg said:

Can you get into the BIOS? im wondering if the cpu isnt simply overheating or if it is seated correctly.

CPU stays in its 60's at most. most of the time it freezes on me, i am not doing anything, just listening to music. i can get into bios fine.

[grss1982]

11 hours ago, hihihi8 said:

hi guys, recently my PC's been having some issues for no reason. its been stable for about 2 months after i converted my old pc into an itx. it started out as driver errors which caused constant blue screens every few minutes (confirmed using verifier). System restore didnt work (it did nothing,not even erase my third party apps), so seeing as it was beyond salvation, i decided to clean install windows from a brand new iso from microsoft. The installation went relatively smoothly, and now i dont get bluescreens anymore. however, the system now locks up when I bump th table or sometimes when i slap my mouse down. this never happened in the past. I havent installed any updates or tried any new software recently, nor have i made any hardware changes. I initially thought the bluescreens were from bad ram, i got the same error everytime when i was having bluescreen so the probability of bad ram should be quote low (its new ram too). I also know that it cant be a harddrive, since i use a m.2 nvme as my boot drive. What could be causing this issue? any help appreciated, thanks

You got 2 PCs in your signature. Which one is having the problem?

 

Sounds like a memory issue if you use two sticks of RAM try using just one and see if the instability goes away and then try the other stick again just to make sure it's not a problem with one of the memory sticks.

[hihihi8]

Forgot to update status: Managed to pinpoint it to a dusty ram slot. I basically wiggled everything in the PC, including all power connectors, the cpu cooler, the GPU itself, and ram sticks to mimic a desk bump. Every time i touched the RAM, it would lock up immediately. The sticks were seated properly, but there was probably some foreign debris causing a weak connection inside the slot. Luckily, after dusting and reinstalling the RAM, the system no longer locks up when I wiggle them. The poor RAM connection was probably what caused my drivers to corrupt in the first place. Thanks for the advice guys

 

On 10/2/2018 at 2:43 PM, grss1982 said:

You got 2 PCs in your signature. Which one is having the problem?

It's neither of them, its another one I recently built for travel