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Question

Computer Froze When Kicked

Feb 11, 2015 5:57AM PST

Ever since I first booted up my computer, it's was 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. After getting a new stick of RAM, it ran fine for about 9 days straight of everyday use (7+ hours every day). However, today, I accidently kicked the case and it froze again. I know its not a big deal as it was only a one time thing, but if anyone has any insight on something like that, I'd appreciate a reply on why something like that would happen.

Maybe it could be the hard drive? The area I kicked it was directly against the hard drive so my guess is that.


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...

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Answer
Troubleshoot It...
Feb 11, 2015 8:19AM PST

Unfortunately, kicking a computer could have caused any kind of damage.. Dislodging cables, damaging connections, damaging the hard drive, damaging the motherboard, etc. Your est bet is to take the cover off the machine, reseat all connections, then start testing each component, one at a time.

Best bet...don't kick the computer.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Possibly Fixed
Feb 11, 2015 12:46PM PST

Reseated my single stick of RAM and it seems to have solved the problem. I hope this was all it was and I can avoid going back to the dark days of 2-5 freezes per night.