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CryinHavoc
So I did a massive upgrade to this PC about half a year ago and have had issues with it freezing ever since and everything I have tried to do fails to fix the problem. I upgraded the motherboard, CPU, graphics card, RAM, and power source as well as 'upgrading' to Windows 10 from Windows 7. Due to this I can't point to a piece of hardware and say it all started when I upgraded 'X' since it was all done at the same time. It freezes seemingly randomly and never actually moves to a blue screen to give me an error code or file to read. It just freezes the screen on whatever I was doing and stays that way until I hold down the power button. When I first used it since the upgrade, it froze consistently while I played a specific game (World of Warships) for about 5 minutes making me think that was the problem. I could play other games fine but it would freeze specifically on that one every 5 minutes or so. But then it froze during normal web browsing and while watching YouTube which made me realize it seems to just freeze randomly. It's so inconsistent on when it'll freeze that I can play World of Warships now without any issues. I've been playing it off and on for weeks without it freezing despite the computer still suffering random freezes during other tasks. I've just lived with the inconvenience until now but Resident Evil 3 just came out and just like what happened with World of Warships, i'm suffering consistent freezing while trying to play the game. I really want to play this game and none of the solutions I've tried have worked for me so I figured I'd ask online and see what happens.
Specs
Motherboard: MPG Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC
CPU: i7-9700k @3.60GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
RAM: 16 GB
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
HHD: Seagate 1TB
What I've tried
-Monitor Temps. Using Speccy, I monitored all temps while playing games that caused freezing, nothing got close to overheating at time of freeze.
-Monitor CPU/Memory/GPU. Using Task Manager I did the same thing as the temps. Nothing maxed out at time of freezes.
-Update Drivers. BIOS/Chipset/Graphics Card/etc. If it had a driver, I made sure it was up to date.
-Fresh Install
-Windows Memory Diagnostic - Came back good
-Intel Processor Diagnostic tool - Came back good
-Check Event Viewer for consistent Errors during freeze. Only mentions how the last shutdown wasn't clean due to hard reboot (Kernel-Power 41)
-I've also looked at a lot of '10 ways to fix your freezing' guides and done all their little steps too. No way I can remember what all I did and name all those off but it was random stuff like that PCIE power management setting off and so forth.
The one thing I saved for the very end is the only consistent freeze I can get to happen every time: I recorded some game play using Fraps and when I attempt to view the clip back using Windows Media Player it will cause my computer to freeze within about a minute every single time. This is pretty much the only time I can make it freeze on command and the only consistent freeze it has (even Resident Evil 3 varies how long it takes to freeze). I'm at wits end and am starting to think it might just be a hardware issue but figured i'd ask here first. Sorry if this isn't all the info you need, I've never posted one of these before.
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Specs
Motherboard: MPG Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC
CPU: i7-9700k @3.60GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
RAM: 16 GB
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
HHD: Seagate 1TB
What I've tried
-Monitor Temps. Using Speccy, I monitored all temps while playing games that caused freezing, nothing got close to overheating at time of freeze.
-Monitor CPU/Memory/GPU. Using Task Manager I did the same thing as the temps. Nothing maxed out at time of freezes.
-Update Drivers. BIOS/Chipset/Graphics Card/etc. If it had a driver, I made sure it was up to date.
-Fresh Install
-Windows Memory Diagnostic - Came back good
-Intel Processor Diagnostic tool - Came back good
-Check Event Viewer for consistent Errors during freeze. Only mentions how the last shutdown wasn't clean due to hard reboot (Kernel-Power 41)
-I've also looked at a lot of '10 ways to fix your freezing' guides and done all their little steps too. No way I can remember what all I did and name all those off but it was random stuff like that PCIE power management setting off and so forth.
The one thing I saved for the very end is the only consistent freeze I can get to happen every time: I recorded some game play using Fraps and when I attempt to view the clip back using Windows Media Player it will cause my computer to freeze within about a minute every single time. This is pretty much the only time I can make it freeze on command and the only consistent freeze it has (even Resident Evil 3 varies how long it takes to freeze). I'm at wits end and am starting to think it might just be a hardware issue but figured i'd ask here first. Sorry if this isn't all the info you need, I've never posted one of these before.
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