Gelmir
Epic Member
I bought and built my rig (in my signature) from someone on Carb a few years back.
Since the start, I experienced random lock-ups of the system. Not regularly, it might happen once a month or not at all for 3 months or 5 times a day, depending on how the PC is feeling on the particular day (almost like a woman I guess).
I can't contribute it to a specific activity. It could happen while it's sitting idling with a screensaver on the screen, while downloading, while playing BF4 or while streaming over the net. So my only conclusion is that it's not network related (happens when idle) or heat related (again idle) or HDD related (again idle).
I tried swapping out the RAM, even added more, and still it locks up. I've done many fresh installs of Win7, still happens. I'm sure it even did it with my previous GFX card, but can't be 100% sure about this.
So, my fellow Carbonites, bestow your wisdom upon me as to what else could contribute to these lock-ups. I realise I haven't supplied much info, but that's because that's pretty much it. No errors, no BSOD, no warnings or recovery messages. It would literally just freeze solid and sit there looking pretty. The image on the screen would stay there and the HDD light will remain on.
All I can think of is a faulty mobo or CPU. Can they cause these issues? Is there a diagnostic to run to test these items cause I don't have spares to swop out, and even if I did, it might look fine but lock up again in 3 weeks time.
Since the start, I experienced random lock-ups of the system. Not regularly, it might happen once a month or not at all for 3 months or 5 times a day, depending on how the PC is feeling on the particular day (almost like a woman I guess).
I can't contribute it to a specific activity. It could happen while it's sitting idling with a screensaver on the screen, while downloading, while playing BF4 or while streaming over the net. So my only conclusion is that it's not network related (happens when idle) or heat related (again idle) or HDD related (again idle).
I tried swapping out the RAM, even added more, and still it locks up. I've done many fresh installs of Win7, still happens. I'm sure it even did it with my previous GFX card, but can't be 100% sure about this.
So, my fellow Carbonites, bestow your wisdom upon me as to what else could contribute to these lock-ups. I realise I haven't supplied much info, but that's because that's pretty much it. No errors, no BSOD, no warnings or recovery messages. It would literally just freeze solid and sit there looking pretty. The image on the screen would stay there and the HDD light will remain on.
All I can think of is a faulty mobo or CPU. Can they cause these issues? Is there a diagnostic to run to test these items cause I don't have spares to swop out, and even if I did, it might look fine but lock up again in 3 weeks time.