Brand New PC Freezing

Sounds like a plan, give it a go. If it's still acting up test your hard drive and your RAM. Test your RAM for longer than an hour though.
 
DriverSweeper doesn't even come up with the Ralink Wifi card... I'm really close to chucking this pile of junk out the window.
 
Uninstall the drivers from device manager then. Go into System Properties - Device Manger - Find your Wi-Fi adapter - right click on it and select 'Uninstall'.
 
I uninstalled it, powered down, and checked the HDD make, it's a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7.

I've now turned it back on, reinstalled the Wifi card driver via the disk that came with it, and now the 'Railink doesn't exist' no longer comes up, I still have connection to the internet though. I'm currently listening to music on YT, we'll see what happens, not holding out for much tbh

EDIT: Just froze again for a few seconds, time to unistall the graphics card, reinstall media accelerator/unistall, then reinstall graphics card. I'm close to giving up and asking for an exchange.
 
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OK well try removing the graphics card and seeing if that helps. I think it's either your hard drive or wi-fi adapter though - can you use an ethernet cable instead of wi-fi just for testing?
 
Out of interest, why would it be my hard drive when it only happens on videos and online games? Unfortunately no, the router is downstairs and seeing as we're with Virgin Media, we cannot move the router upstairs as the wiring goes under the cement outside the house into the router. (It's basically stuck where it is)

Well that was weird, I checked for updates for the Wifi cards drivers, it updated it and it now appears as an Atheros AR9285 Network adapter? Strange..
 
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There's no particular reason why it could be your hard drive - it's just a possibility and probably worth testing in case you get any other issues. I'm 99% certain your issues are Wi-Fi card related now though.

Can't you move your PC downstairs and try? Or try using another wi-fi adapter? Maybe a USB one?
 
Ok, so should I unistall the wifi card again, then use either another usb adaptor (which I have) or take the pc downstairs (I can fit it to the TV as use for the monitor) and try watching videos again?
 
Try uninstalling the drivers for your wi-fi card, put in the USB adapter, try that, failing that, take the PC downstairs and use ethernet.
 
I'm now downstairs with the ethernet cable plugged in, I've unistalled the drivers for the wifi card and the card itself, now time to test videos. Wish me luck.
 
It was the Wifi Card, works perfectly fine on videos and heavy duty online games when connected via ethernet. Thanks for your help btw, really appreciate it.

Time to buy a usb adapter..
 
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If I were you, I would test the wireless since it updated the driver for it. It's possible you just a bad driver.
 
johnb35 said:
If I were you, I would test the wireless since it updated the driver for it. It's possible you just a bad driver.
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It still froze even after updating, but has been perfect after getting rid of it, I'll just get a USB adapter :)

EDIT:The company I bought it off has offered to send out a USB adapter free of charge. :D - As they believe my wifi card was one of the faulty batch they received
 
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