This is killing me

dave1701

dave1701

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I have now had this problem for literally a year. It keeps going away, then coming back. Windows freezes. This has happened through multiple windows installations, both 32 and 64 bit editions. This freezing happens randomly. My processor is not overclocked, and stays at brilliant temperatures. The problem does not occur in any patter on high CPU usage at all. The CPU can run Prime 95 all day.

Confirmed working:

CPU- Runs prime 95 all day and the problem doesn't seem to correlate with cpu usage
GPU tested in other computer
PSU- I replaced my old one


That pretty much only leaves the motherboard. As I said, this crashes seemingly randomly. I do not do much gaming, but when I have gamed on this computer, it has never crashed in the middle of a game. Generally the crashes are when I am doing something non-hardware intensive, like using file explorer. It is very difficult to rule things out, because sometimes these freezes stop for a month, then come back and I have multiple freezes in one day. I don't know what to do at this point. Should I assume the motherboard is the source of the problem?
 
My first guess would be a hard drive issue, especially if it's actually freezing and not just rebooting or blue screening. I use Seagate Seatools to test my drives.
 
Would you mind testing CPU & RAM with IntelBurnTest? It's a better stress test than Prime. Just make sure to do about 25-50 runs and use maximum stress on a 64-bit version of windows.
 
I discovered this, which is strange, but true.

Today, the computer has froze every time I have attempted to select all of the folders and files in my music directory. I'm not even copying or deleting anything. Just attempt to select all of the files there by dragging a box through all of them and the thing freezes.

Never encountered something so weird.
 
For the main hard drive with the OS on it is connected via SATA cable. I got it used from somebody on this forum. I also have another hard drive that is a EIDE and I am using an adapter to IDE. I use that one primary for storing my music.
 
have you tried a different main HDD? or if its in the music folder, try checking out the EIDE HDD, it could be that the connection between your mobo and EIDE HDD has loosend up a bit?
 
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