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I did flash the BIOS with the latest update. So far so good. Best guess is that it was always the video drivers, but something also got corrupted with the OS with the freezes, so I had to both update the drivers and then do sfc/ scannow to completely fix it. Anyway, thank you all for your help!

According to CPU-Z the BIOS version is 1.B0 - AMD AGESA ComboAM4v2PI 1.1.0.0 This morning was the first time in a long time that my computer wasn't frozen up. It would have frozen by now for sure, so apparently it's fixed? Maybe I just needed to do the scannow thing after updating the video...

No, it's not overclocked. Everything is running stock speeds. I don't know what version of the BIOS I'm running, but I've never updated it. I will have to pull the stupid HDD to boot into the BIOS and check (probably tomorrow). Anyone know how you are supposed to boot into the BIOS without...

I stopped FurMark. It seemed like stressing the GPU didn't do anything. After that I walked away for a while and came back to the PC and it had obviously restarted. Looking at the event viewer I finally see something that looks interesting, or at least looks like it might be a clue I can...

On a whim, I just ran sfc/ scannow and it found corrupted files and repaired them. That's odd, because the original boot disk was fine, but had the exact same problem as this one. After doing that I've been running FurMark for over 20min and so far so good. How long should I run this BTW?

I don't have another GPU that will work on this motherboard. I do have a Ryzen 7 5800X I can run on this motherboard though. The good news is that I've been wanting to build another PC anyway, so I might as well just buy the components and then I can swap stuff out and test.

My new boot drive is having the exact same problem as the old one, so I would think that would rule it out as being corrupt? I tested the original boot drive and found nothing. I'll give the stress tests a go and see what I find.

So I actually have two of the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB drives. The original HDD that this was happening on was pulled and I reinstalled the OS on the second drive and that's what I've been running while trying to troubleshoot. I already ran repair install on the original drive as well as checkdisk...

Well, that didn't work. I used the computer for maybe an hour or so, left and got lunch and it was frozen when I got back. Not sure what to try now.

Quit memtest. Made it through 3 passes with no errors and I got impatient. Just installed the latest nvidia driver for the GPU. Now we'll wait and see...

It’s not solved yet. Still finishing up the memtest, but so far that’s clear. Assuming it finishes all clear my next thing to try is to mess around with the GPU drivers.

Running memtest now. Finished two passes with 0 errors. Default was 4 passes I believe, but so far so good on the memory. I’m also thinking GPU driver related. How am I supposed to run the PC overnight without the GPU in it and know if it freezes? My only display ports are on the GPU. When it...

I tried the windows memory test and it said everything was fine. Is that sufficient, or should I try a 3rd party test? If so, which one? The boot drive is a good idea. I'm going to try that.

It's random, but usually within an hour or two of restarting the machine after it froze the last time. I normally leave the machine running all the time. I've had times when I've been using it and suddenly it just freezes (ie just web browsing). I've had times when I've walked away from the...

I built my PC over a year ago and it has run flawlessly until about a month ago when I started getting random freezes. The screen just completely locks up. The mouse doesn't move and the keyboard doesn't do anything. I have to press and hold the power button until it shuts off and then turn it...