ElementBilly
Limp Gawd
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I built my Dad a new pc and it gets very random lockups.
Specs include:
Windows 8 Enterprise, Intel 4770, MSI H87M-G43 mobo, Corsair CX 500w psu, 2x4gb Corsair Vengeance memory, Asus 260x gpu, and a 250g samsung Evo SSD.
There's no consistency to what causes the lockups, other than it always happens during simple task or just moving the mouse after the pc has been there idle for a bit. At first it seemed related to the SSD as it happened most often when writing to the drive, however I swapped the SSD with a known working HDD I have and it still locked again. Ive ran things like heaven and vally benchmark for a good 45 minutes each and its fine the whole way through, but it will latter lock while doing something like opening a browser or downloading a file.
Iv left Bios settings stock and even reset them to optimized defaults. What should be my next step in troubleshooting?
I would think the video card and psu can be eliminated as computer runs fine under load. I think that limits it to bad ram, or mobo maybe?
Specs include:
Windows 8 Enterprise, Intel 4770, MSI H87M-G43 mobo, Corsair CX 500w psu, 2x4gb Corsair Vengeance memory, Asus 260x gpu, and a 250g samsung Evo SSD.
There's no consistency to what causes the lockups, other than it always happens during simple task or just moving the mouse after the pc has been there idle for a bit. At first it seemed related to the SSD as it happened most often when writing to the drive, however I swapped the SSD with a known working HDD I have and it still locked again. Ive ran things like heaven and vally benchmark for a good 45 minutes each and its fine the whole way through, but it will latter lock while doing something like opening a browser or downloading a file.
Iv left Bios settings stock and even reset them to optimized defaults. What should be my next step in troubleshooting?
I would think the video card and psu can be eliminated as computer runs fine under load. I think that limits it to bad ram, or mobo maybe?