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Freezing problem

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chibe

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I am about to loose my mind on trying to figure out this problem I've been having over that last 2 months or so. My computer will randomly freeze up for about 10-30 secs and then unfreeze with the very rare occasion having a BSOD when it unfreezes. The freezes would occur more frequently when watching videos, both avi/mp4 and youtube. I have been playing more than a few games(BF4/BF3, bioshock infinite), but the only game I have had the freezes is rift.

Computer setup
i5 4670k (3 months old)
Asus Z87-A (3 months old)
G.Skill 8gb (2x4) F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL
7870 sapphire (1 month old)
700 GS PSU (3.5 years old)
Rosewill wireless adapter (RNX-n150PCe)(2 years old)
H60 CPU cooler
Corsair Force series 3 SSD 120gb (2 years old)
Windows 7 64-bit

Solutions I have tried:
Full reformat
Different video cards
Pulled back my overclock
Switched the ram slots

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
And you've tried various graphic drivers I assume? Double check and update everything. BIOS firmware, graphic drivers (play around with the oldest supported to latest). If you get a chance, next time go to Event Viewer and find the reason for the BSOD. When it comes to screen lag, freezes, and BSOD's, most times these days it's because of the system RAM or faulty GPU. Switching slots may not do a thing, instead I would try to remove one completely. Depending on how often this occurs this could take awhile, unless you can force it (i.e. youtube).

Also on fresh installs I find installing a codec pack that plays nicely with the latest and greatest (K-Lite Codec Pack) tends to help. Everything these days is hardware accelerated including Flash content and browsers themselves. Very annoying for myself, but this could be why it struggles to play MP4 content and AVI since these days people pack things that weren't designed for AVI into that container.

Only one game seems to have crashed out it seems. I'm guessing there is no overclock? If so remove it and all other overclocks. That's another symptom of a bad OC or overheating. How are the temps?
 
Drivers 13.12 and 14.1 for the video card have both been tested. BIOS is up to date. The freezing problem occured with my old 6870, an old 8800 GTS, and the new 7870. Doing the one ram at a time at this moment. As for the overclock, its gone and as for the temps, they are in the norm, and when playing BF4, the high temps are in the 50c on the cpu and gpu.
 
Check your event log to see if there are any issues caught.
A faulty hard drive can cause this type of problem for example.

Failing that, install Windows on a spare drive and see if the issue still occurs, to see if its down to the windows installation/configuration.
 
Nenu said:
Check your event log to see if there are an issues caught.
A faulty hard drive can cause this.

Failing that, install Windows on a spare drive and see if the issue still occurs, to see if its down to the windows installation/configuration.
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Also did this and it still occurred.
 
Did you check your event log?

If it still occurs with a fresh Windows install, its probably a hardware issue.
Reset your CMOS and see if it improves.
Be sure to set your memory voltage and speed correctly.
 
As for the BSOD, the event viewer flagged it as event id 41, and the eventdata was:
BugcheckCode 209
BugcheckParameter1 0x538
BugcheckParameter2 0x2
BugcheckParameter3 0x0
BugcheckParameter4 0xfffff88004875836
SleepInProgress false
PowerButtonTimestamp 0
 
Well, after doing more troubleshooting from the suggestions here, I believe that the auto config of the ram was tighter than what the ram would allow. If the problem comes back, then this thread will be necroed!
 
Well, the problem is now back with a new twist in the form of 2 problems. Sometimes the usb port will work until windows is loaded and sometimes the usb ports wont work at all. Im starting to think its time to RMA this board back :(
 
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