Windows freezing

bm23

bm23

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Past few days, I've had random freezings. My PC wasn't running anything intense, just itunes, opera and 3ds max (funny thing is, my PC can last through hours of rendering with no freezing whatsoever). Can someone help me find a way to diagnose the problem?

My current specs are
Windows 7 64 bit
Core i7 3770k (I OC it when i'm rendering but the freezing only happens when I'm running stock)
Gigabye Z77 UD3H
Asus GTX 560
G.Skills 2x4gb 1600mhz
Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD
1TB WD caviar green + 2TB WD caviar green + 500gb Maxtor
 
bm23 said:
Past few days, I've had random freezings. My PC wasn't running anything intense, just itunes, opera and 3ds max (funny thing is, my PC can last through hours of rendering with no freezing whatsoever). Can someone help me find a way to diagnose the problem?

My current specs are
Windows 7 64 bit
Core i7 3770k (I OC it when i'm rendering but the freezing only happens when I'm running stock)
Gigabye Z77 UD3H
Asus GTX 560
G.Skills 2x4gb 1600mhz
Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD
1TB WD caviar green + 2TB WD caviar green + 500gb Maxtor
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what are your temps?
download this program and take a screenshot of your temps.

in the program go to computer --> sensors.
 
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That's my temp while running stress test. I'm thinking it could be a bad drive sector. What's a good program to run disk check?
 
@bm23, if you want a good disk checking utility forget ChkDisk and use something like Sea Tools.

Try updating your motherboard BIOS, I forgot to mention that those Gigabyte Z77X boards had BIOS issues with older revisions, the newer ones are much better. Also try updating your SSD's firmware, again, older firmware revisions on Corsair SSDs were bad, the newer ones are way better. Try updating SATA and AHCI drivers too.
 
spirit said:
@bm23, if you want a good disk checking utility forget ChkDisk and use something like Sea Tools.

Try updating your motherboard BIOS, I forgot to mention that those Gigabyte Z77X boards had BIOS issues with older revisions, the newer ones are much better. Also try updating your SSD's firmware, again, older firmware revisions on Corsair SSDs were bad, the newer ones are way better. Try updating SATA and AHCI drivers too.
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Thanks for the reply. Will definitely do all that. I'm currently scanning my hdd. So far, 2 out of 4 cleared.

Lollipop Garbage said:
wait until winter is over...
lol jk...

anywho... try windows disc cleanup, defrag, all those... look for viruses...
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Yup, will do that :)
 
It's been a while. I'm still getting freezes, at least once a day. I've run disk check with seatool (all disks cleared), I've updated all drivers (audio, video, LAN), I've run virus and spyware checks. Any other thing that I may do? I may try updating my BIOS. I've never done that before. I'm using the gigabyte Z77 UD3H. Any help would be appreciated :)
 
Let's find out what programs are running at bootup.

Download the HijackThis installer from here.
Run the installer and choose Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.

Vista and Windows 7 users must right click on the hijackthis icon and click on run as. If the run as option doesn't appear then press and hold the shift key while right clicking on the icon to get it to appear.


Click Do a system scan and save a logfile

Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.

When the hijackthis log appears in a notepad file, click on the edit menu, click select all, then click on the edit menu again and click on copy. Come back to your reply and right click on your mouse and click on paste.

Post the logfile that HijackThis produces
 
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