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cyberslag5k

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My computer has started to freeze every now and then (usually between 1 and 8 hours). It just completely stops responding. The mouse cursor doesn't move, the keyboard doesn't do anything, it goes 100% still. My proc and mobo are only a year old, and I don't think they're overheating (I put motherboard monitor on it yesterday and neither core got above 50 degrees at any time, and I'm pretty sure both stayed below 40 but I can't attest to that).

This leaves me to think it's the memory, which is 4 years old. What is the best way to test that? I found Memtest86+ via Google but it looks like it requires a boot disk, which is a pain. Is there nothing that can just run in windows?

Could it also be my hard drive? I wouldn't think I would experience these problems if it were the hard drive, but I'm open to the possibility.

I'm going to reformat to see if that clears things up, as well, but I wanted to get a game plan for if that doesn't work. What is the best way to diagnose my problem?
 
Before you format, get the bootable cd .iso of memtest and let it run for some loops its the best way to test ram, just to discard errors, and another thing you can do is reload bios defaults and see if still hangs
 
Memtest86+ is the best way to determine whether or not you have a problem with RAM. However, you will need a blank CD-R so you could burn the Memtest86 ISO onto it. The ISO will also turn the CD-R into a bootable disk.
 
If you have another PSU on hand, i'd try that before formatting... it might be putting off shitty voltages.
 
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