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Question

Computer Freezes At Random

Feb 2, 2015 7:22AM PST

Ever since I first booted up my computer, it's been freezing up quite a bit. By freezing I mean the screen freezes on whatever is open at the time. My perephrials stop working as the screen is frozen My computer itself continues working like normal. All fans and lights act fine. There is nothing I can do other than hold the power button down to turn it off. It is not my motherboard's doing as I already RMA'd it and got a new one. The new one lasted 2 days before it froze up again. I dont think it could be the hard drive becaue it started happening before I even got my OS installed. Does anyone know what could be causing this and how to fix it?

Ive tried:
-Reseated both sticks of RAM and cpu
-made sure everything is plugged in right.
-made sure the motherboard was in the case correctly (loosened the standoffs as i thought they were shorting the board)
-made sure the tabs on the i/o shield are touching the motherboard.
-Built the full thing outside of the case. (Eliminates the mobo shorting out on the case)

Other:
-Everything is working fine. nothing is overheating and all fans work properly.
-It happens about 2 times a day

My personal thoughts are it being the GPU or RAM. But there's so much it could be.


Full build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Tempers/saved/NpFxFT
My ram is not listed on pcpartpicker so here that is:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Any help is so much appreciated as I do not have a lot of time to work on it right now.

-Thanks

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Answer
check RAM
Feb 2, 2015 11:32AM PST

by running a memory test program on it. All Linux distros for LIVE DVD also contain memtest program on it, very good too. You boot to the disc and run it. You could also find memtest86 and run that to test the RAM.

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Couldnt Run Memtest86
Feb 2, 2015 3:08PM PST

I tried this a long time ago but could not get my usb to boot out of the bios menu. I formatted the usb correctly but it wouldnt work. cant burn a disc bc no dvd burner. Im currently testing each stick individually to see if it freezes. Im only on the first stick right now and its been going with no problems for about 8 hours now. Ill update my post as I continue troubleshooting.

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Re: checking memory
Feb 2, 2015 5:55PM PST
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that's a good fact to know
Feb 3, 2015 2:25AM PST

something new I learned today.