Computer Freezing at Random!
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:41 am
As the title says... my damned computer has started freezing at random. I think the first blow was when I had a controller plugged into the front USB of my Antec P180 and then kinda smashed it while I was vacuuming ^^ The Front USB Port is now a bit damaged, you can connect a device if you get the angle just right, otherwise it just shuts down the entire system, so I simply unplugged the Front USB connector from the Motherboard so that's no longer a problem.
After that however the real issue started. I can be in a game, playing a movie, scrolling on some webpage or playing solitaire while listening to a video on Youtube. The entire system will pretty much freeze up, except the mouse pointer tends to keep working, the sound however gets on a mini-loop of 0,1secs sound and I have to turn the speakers off until the system comes back to normal. This can last 1-15 seconds or simply keep on going for minutes and I have to restart the computer with its reboot button.
It also unplugged and then re-plugged my speakers in according to the pop-up that comes up when plugging in a new sound device, so I had to deactivate that pop-up and detection action which seemed to help at first.
Then I did a Memtest and ran it 4 cycles with no errors, I bought a new SSD (Needed more space anyway) and reformatted my other 2 harddrives which seemed to have cured the problem for the first 2-3 weeks.. but now its back with a vengeance. Not only does it freeze but I'm now also loosing my internet connection and I have to disable and re-enable my Network device sometimes after its frozen.
Its a completely fresh Windows 7 install on the new SSD, drivers are all updated to the latest... I think its the motherboard that's the issue. The problem is this computer is only 2 years old so I'm not looking to upgrade yet, but finding a 1156 Motherboard won't be as easy as most of the stores in Stockholm have stopped selling them.
It can go several days without anything happening and then all of a sudden it can freeze up like this 4-5 times in a matter of minutes (It did previous to writing this damned post!). Oh and I got new Speakers back in April (A few months after it first started doing this) so they're not the problem either.
What do you guys think, just try to get a hold of another 1156 Motherboard?
System specs are:
Intel i5 760 2,8Ghz
2x2GB Corsair Dominator
Gigabyte P55A-UD5 Motherboard
Gigabyte Nvidia 460GTX 1GB
Corsair 120GB SSD
2x1TB Samsung F1 Spinpoint
Seasonic S12 430W
After that however the real issue started. I can be in a game, playing a movie, scrolling on some webpage or playing solitaire while listening to a video on Youtube. The entire system will pretty much freeze up, except the mouse pointer tends to keep working, the sound however gets on a mini-loop of 0,1secs sound and I have to turn the speakers off until the system comes back to normal. This can last 1-15 seconds or simply keep on going for minutes and I have to restart the computer with its reboot button.
It also unplugged and then re-plugged my speakers in according to the pop-up that comes up when plugging in a new sound device, so I had to deactivate that pop-up and detection action which seemed to help at first.
Then I did a Memtest and ran it 4 cycles with no errors, I bought a new SSD (Needed more space anyway) and reformatted my other 2 harddrives which seemed to have cured the problem for the first 2-3 weeks.. but now its back with a vengeance. Not only does it freeze but I'm now also loosing my internet connection and I have to disable and re-enable my Network device sometimes after its frozen.
Its a completely fresh Windows 7 install on the new SSD, drivers are all updated to the latest... I think its the motherboard that's the issue. The problem is this computer is only 2 years old so I'm not looking to upgrade yet, but finding a 1156 Motherboard won't be as easy as most of the stores in Stockholm have stopped selling them.
It can go several days without anything happening and then all of a sudden it can freeze up like this 4-5 times in a matter of minutes (It did previous to writing this damned post!). Oh and I got new Speakers back in April (A few months after it first started doing this) so they're not the problem either.
What do you guys think, just try to get a hold of another 1156 Motherboard?
System specs are:
Intel i5 760 2,8Ghz
2x2GB Corsair Dominator
Gigabyte P55A-UD5 Motherboard
Gigabyte Nvidia 460GTX 1GB
Corsair 120GB SSD
2x1TB Samsung F1 Spinpoint
Seasonic S12 430W