" took a lot of time to
making sure all the parts were compatible."
It looks like you should have taken more time to check compatibility of parts.
Your cpu and that mobo don't go together.
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/HelpDesk_CPU/
Hi everyone I hope you can help me, because I've tried about everything I can think of but,
I've almost lost hope now - I've been looking everywhere for the better part of a year to
solve this issue on my computer. I built this thing to be a monster and took a lot of time to
making sure all the parts were compatible. This is my second custom built computer so I had a
bit more experience this go around, and I'd note - I never had this issue on my old computer
but the thing was ancient and needed to go.
I have done a lot of troubleshooting myself but to no avail so far. I've gone so far as to buy
a brand new hard drive and reinstall windows 10 from scratch, and I still have the problem and cant
seem to identify the source; but I've ruled out (I think) a bunch of possibilities.
First I'll brief describe what happens during the freezes and what data I have captured using CUPID Monitor before, during - but not after the freezing incidents because the entire screen becomes unresponsive as does the mouse and keyboard (I.E. system no longer responds to overriding commands like CNTR Alt Delete etc.).
The computer
hardware appears to be running normally even during the freezes. And there is no spike of usage or heat prior to a freeze.
I have noticed it does not seem to be graphic intensive - it freezes when I play games, when I'm doing nothing, or when I'm surfing the internet, watching a movie, installing an update or
even I just leave the computer alone for extended periods of time I'll come back and the screen will be frozen.
Only a Computer restart fixes it, the computer starts up like nothing happened until it freezes the next time.
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Here are my specs:
Motherboard: ASUS m5a97 R2.0
850 Watt Power Supply
Video card: AMD Radeon r9 200 series graphics card (x2) 3G Memory each, 2 powerful fans each.
I've run each card on its own and together and still experience the freezes - all the drivers are up to date.
Hard Drive: 500gb WD Blue Solid state drive SATA 2.5" WDS500G1B0A - upgrading hard drives did not resolve the issue.
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-9590 8 core processor 4.70GHz
Ram: 32 GB
Corsair liquid cooling system, and 2 primary fans in the casing along with the 2 fans each graphics card has.
However the data from HWMonitor does not seem to indicate the computer is overheating. As even during graphic
intense games the HWMonitor shows the temperatures below 45 degrees Celsius on average
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I'm not even over clocking the system. anyone have any ideas?

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